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Fairground

Freely adapted from the novel by Werner Bräunig

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At the center of the play is Wismut AG, the "state within the state" that employed around 200,000 people around 1950 and was responsible for 60 percent of the Soviet Union's uranium production.

Rummelplatz is about young people who are uprooted after the collapse of Germany at the end of the Second World War. The desolate state of society, the survival of many old Nazis, the rise of new political castes and the pursuit of profit by old and new capitalists paralyzes them. They are robbed of all prospects for the future and the air they breathe. In the "Wismut", this huge uranium mining operation in the Ore Mountains, where Bräunig himself worked as a miner, they meet, the war returnees and the soldiers of fortune, the rebellious and the idealists, German miners and Soviet shaft management: Christian Kleinschmidt, the professor's son, who has to "probation in production" before his studies. Peter Loose, a rough but honest fellow. Nickel, the convinced functionary, Ruth Fischer, the young activist and feminist, and a few others who, four years after the end of the war, lured by high wages, a comparatively good food supply and the atmosphere of adventure that was inherent in men's life in the mass quarters, sacrificed their best years to Wismut AG. Werner Bräunig has given such an unvarnished picture of the early years in East and West - hard work, shortages, wrong turns, old shafts, setbacks, confinement, claustrophobia. Alcohol, prostitutes, the omnipresent Russian soldiers - that the novel came under official criticism from Ulbricht and Honecker and publication became impossible.

Theater piece facts

Fairground - Freely adapted from the novel by Werner Bräunig

Length
80 minutes
Additional information

In-house productions
Normal price: € 18.00
Reduced price: € 15.00 (applies to pensioners and severely disabled persons; accompanying persons are not free)
Students/pupils: € 8.00

People involved

A selection of people who have been involved in this play.
Many more work behind the scenes who are not mentioned here. See: About us.

Dramaturgie
Isabelle Weh
Darsteller*in
Marvin Reich as Peter Loose Thomas Weidauer as Emmes/Dr Jungandreas Lena Franzkowiak as Mädchen/Mutter Elmar Börger as Christian Kleinschmidt Silvia Klemm as Erzählerin/Heidewitzka/Polotnikow Lena Schulze as Mädchen
Bühne
Hardy Hoosman
Schauspielerin
Alica Weirauch as Ingrid/Ruth Fischer
Sound-Installationen additional
Ulrich Halfter
Videos additional
Michael Chlebusch
Kostüme additional
Franziska Felber

Upcoming shows

Fairground - Freely adapted from the novel by Werner Bräunig

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March 2025

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