The Disobedient

by Marcel Raabe and Manuel Waltz

World premiere

A Bundeswehr officer who refuses orders. A member of "Letzte Generation" jailed for her activism. A railway union organizer calling strikes. A pig farmer blocking roads. What they share is this: they have all crossed a line - either breaking the law or being branded "disobedient" by the public and put under pressure. "Disobedience" means taking a personal risk, pushing the limits of what is permitted, expected, and normal - and sometimes crossing or questioning those limits altogether.

Disobedience plays out at every scale: on German motorways, inside the Federal Migration Office, among whistleblowers, in the Hambach Forest or in Lützerath - and in villages that Reichsbürger supporters declare autonomous republics. Sometimes it makes headlines; sometimes it is quiet, private defiance. Behind it can lie noble aims, irrational fears, or serious moral questions.

Authors Marcel Raabe and Manuel Waltz conducted numerous interviews alongside intensive research into civil disobedience. From that documentary material they have built a participatory theatre piece that actively draws the audience in.