Professor Sascha Münnich teaches sociology at the University of Göttingen. He did not study philosophy, law or medicine, and, unfortunately, did not study theology either. Instead, he researches money and the consequences of the financial crisis. Young Goethe also wanted to be a professor in Göttingen, but his father harboured animosity against the city on the Leine. So, Johann Wolfgang had to become a poet instead: ‘Nach Golde drängt / am Golde hängt / doch alles’ (To gold they tend / On gold depend / All things). Faust II, the second part of Goethe’s tragedy, negotiates the impacts of state bankruptcy. The emperor has spent all the money, but Mephisto creates new money from nothing, funded by the country’s as yet untapped mineral resources. This puts speculation out into the world together with competition, crisis, exploitation and the compulsion to increase profits. For this production, theatre and scholarship come together again to unravel the secrets of money, the great myth of what ‘die Welt / im Innersten zusammenhält’ (binds the world’s innermost core together).
Mit Sascha Münnich und Nikolaus Kühn, Konzept und Regie: Jan Philipp Stange, Bühne: Jakob Engel, Dramaturgie: Jascha Fendel, Text: Jakob Engel, Sascha Münnich und Jan Philipp Stange, Regieassistenz: Leonie Rebentisch | Fotos von Jakob Engel & Thomas Müller
Premiere am 25.4.2019. Weitere Vorstellungen am 03.05., 04.05., 05.05., 08.05., 24.05., 25.05., 26.05., 05.06., 07.06. und 12.06.