Max and Moritz in Magdeburg - at Technikmuseum Magdeburg

Max and Moritz in Magdeburg
A summer open-air cabaret-theatre spectacle in 6 acts
freely adapted from Wilhelm Busch
by Hengstmann-Herfurth-Hengstmann

Ah, what one often hears or reads about naughty children. These lines are known to almost every child in Germany. For with them Wilhelm Busch began to process his own childhood. But are these lines still relevant today? In a time when everything is heading back to the 1860s? Well, if we're talking about the 1860s, then yes.

Max and Moritz grew up in the Lower Saxon countryside. But they could just as well have lived in Magdeburg. And in the year 2026. So the protagonists of the cabaret "... according to Hengstmann" set out this summer to explore how Max and Moritz might have fared in Magdeburg.
Armed with humour, satire, and sometimes wit and a pinch of sarcasm, they ride through the Magdeburg Technical Museum, through the lowlands, dogs and shallows of Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, German and even world politics. Dizzying. But not a lie.

It's about bridges, chickens, cows, pipes and sacks, some of them old. And about this one could sing a song in the summer open-air cabaret-theatre spectacle. Even several. From 11 June at the Magdeburg Technical Museum.