War and Its Business - in cooperation with the Schubart-Gesellschaft

WAR AND ITS BUSINESS
a literary-musical-scenic evening around Schubart's Kaplied
in cooperation with the Schubart-Gesellschaft

Schubart wrote his "Kaplied" as a farewell to the 3,200 soldiers sold by the Duke of Württemberg to the Netherlands in 1787 to secure the colony at the Cape of Good Hope. Only 100 returned; the Duke pocketed 900,000 Reichstaler. This episode is reconstructed and staged through texts and songs by Schubart, Schiller, Heine, and Kleist. A look at recent war literature shows that the old poets' questions remain urgent today: what is a soldier's life worth - and who profits from war?