Gottlieb Biedermann, a hair tonic manufacturer, wants to see the good in people for once. Intoxicated by his own idealism, he offers hospitality to two strangers. Yet warnings about arsonists are everywhere: disguised as poor peddlers, they take up residence in the attics of law-abiding citizens – and reduce everything to rubble and ashes.

Biedermann and the Arsonists

Theater Basel

A small town in turmoil. Everyone wants to shoot the wolf themselves. Which wolf? And then there's German chancellor candidate Alice Weidel – does she fit into the townscape of this idyllic pilgrimage site on the Way of St. James? What is actually real? Wolves in sheep's clothing? Queer-hostile queers? Rainbow families with brown attitudes? Of course, this is not a contradiction: in the northern hemisphere, all water vortices and high-pressure areas turn to the right – physics. And how is it in the best democracy in the world? Why do right-wing extremists feel so at home in Switzerland?

Bärbel Schwarz

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