Endsieg - von Elfriede Jelinek
4/18/2026
at 7:30 PM
/ Erlangen
The gates of the land of mourning are unlocked, the final victory approaches! What "our dear Adolf" could not accomplish, others who we hold dear are now achieving. We name no names, we know them all, we have chosen them, or not, it doesn’t matter from now on, whoever wins is right. Democracy, folks! We are the people, we decide who leads, guides, steers us! And about this, the not-so-dear Elfi from Austria has written a dramatic poem.
When Donald Trump first became President of the United States in 2017, Nobel Prize-winning author Elfriede Jelinek reacted with a pitch-black farce regarding the deranged political clown (On the King's Road). In 2024, shortly after Trump's re-election victory, she wrote Endsieg. This text is equally dark, and the humor hangs definitively from the gallows. Donald Trump is not mentioned in a single word; it speaks of a king, an elected one, a god in human form. As such, he brings salvation not just to his country but to the entire globe. Even in Germany, the messianic message of the god-like leader with the yellow-blond hair is well received. In 2016, everyone laughed at his hairstyle; now it is a crown. "The blondes win," writes Jelinek, "they must win. Advantage for blonde. The masters not only in Germany, the masters now everywhere."
Nina Mattenklotz, who recently directed "Nora or How to Compost the Manorial House" at Schauspiel Erfurt, directs Jelinek's dark satire on everything we hold dear. Us, the people.
Director - Nina Mattenklotz
Stage and Costumes - Johanna Pfau
Music - Romy Camerun
Dramaturgy - Anita Augustin
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