War and Its Business - in Cooperation with the Schubart Society

A literary-musical-theatrical evening devoted to Schubart's "Kaplied", in cooperation with the Schubart Society.

Schubart wrote his "Kaplied" as a farewell to 3,200 soldiers whom the Duke of Württemberg sold to the Netherlands in 1787 to secure the colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Only 100 returned; the Duke earned 900,000 reichsthalers. Drawing on texts and songs by Schubart, Schiller, Heine, and Kleist, this historical case is reconstructed and staged.

A look at contemporary war literature reveals that the questions posed by these old poets remain strikingly relevant: What is the value of a soldier's life? And who profits from war?