Thursday, 11/14/2024
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The siblings Mia and Moritz Holl grow up in a system – called THE METHOD – that uses all means to prevent people from physical suffering. Health is the highest goal of the state. Not only strict hygiene laws ensure that this goal is reached. While the natural scientist Mia Holl supports THE METHOD, her brother’s adaptability is too underdeveloped; his love for freedom is too great. She accuses him of antisocial behavior, he fears her for the fear of feeling what life truly means. Now Moritz is dead. A DNA test has proven him guilty of a fatal rape; he commits suicide while in custody. Mia mourns him, she neglects her health protocols, thus coming under the scrutiny of the justice system and falling into the clutches of a fundamental advocate of THE METHOD. She increasingly doubts her brother's guilt and is gradually turned into a pawn in a show trial, where she is styled as an enemy of the state.

The play "Corpus Delicti," written by Juli Zeh as a commissioned work for the Ruhrtriennale, was a response in 2007 to the stricter legislation following the international fight against terrorism. Matthias Kaschig examines in his work the relationship of the individual and their right to self-determination in relation to their responsibility towards the community. "Corpus Delicti" is a courtroom drama, the task of every trial and also every evening of theater is to collect loosely connected stories into a comprehensible sequence of events and motives. But who has the authority over these life stories? The play exemplifies how these are concocted and reshaped, and how a law-abiding person can become a threat to the public. After God has been declared dead, humanity finds the meaning of its life in the pursuit of health. The production raises the question of how much brightness a person can endure. Should there not be a right to darkness? For, as Moritz Holl asks, was not sleep invented so that we get used to death night after night?

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