Die Volksfeindin - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Die Volksfeindin

Amelie Niermeyer is staging Henrik Ibsen's play "Ein Volksfeind" in a version in which the title character Stockmann is played by Juliane Köhler at the Salzburg State Theater.

Ibsen's drama "Ein Volksfeind" is shockingly up-to-date:
Stockmann returned to his hometown as a bath doctor and helped her to a tremendous upswing. But Stockmann discovers that the bathwater, which is so important to the community and its health resort, is contaminated. When this is to be publicized, the figure gets into a bitter conflict with the other members of the city society, in which the poles of the dispute, the concern for the health of the spa guests and the profit motive of the spa establishments. Ibsen develops in this material the gripping drama of a social ordeal.

Stockmann's brother, the mayor, who has helped him to office and reputation, knows about the consequences: the reputation of the spa town would be damaged forever, also lead the renovation inevitably in bankruptcy. The camps split and Stockmann stands increasingly angry as an angry man, he insults the press, politicians and fellow citizens, until finally comes up the question of whether he has not staged everything in their own interest.

In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote his timeless as well as bitter social criticism. Mechanisms of a through-economicized media democracy are revealed, at the center of which is the question of why, against all rationality, short-term profit maximization strategies prevail over ecological necessities.

Dichten means at Ibsen "Judgment Day over his own self". In his 1883 premiere social drama, he also questions the responsibility of the press as well as the conflict of self-interest and common good. It has always been only a small step from a folk friend to an enemy of the people. The majority, on the other hand, are uncritical, often over-challenged followers with intersecting interests. Like us.

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