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Wednesday, 10/7/2026
at 7:00 PM



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Four theater texts by Elfriede Jelinek from almost four decades, written between 1988 and 2025. DIE ANKUNFT is a theater marathon at the right time – here, in the land of mountains, land by the river. And now, as the last firewalls in Europe begin to crumble.

1945, the last days of the war: A lavish celebration is held at Schloss Rechnitz in Burgenland. As the highlight, guests shoot approximately 200 Jewish forced laborers. In the 2000s, a right-wing extremist terror cell kills across Germany without interruption. In both cases, the legal proceedings drag on, witnesses remain silent, evidence disappears. And today? The political center falls silent, the right-wing turn is in full swing, ethnic and radical thinking becomes respectable again – and frightening continuities become ever more recognizable.

Elfriede Jelinek distills both contemporary history and immediate present into great literature. RECHNITZ (THE STRANGLER ANGEL) is her central work on Nazi crimes and their legacy, in DAS SCHWEIGENDE MÄDCHEN she addresses the murders of the NSU and the subsequent trials. And in DAS LEBEWOHL – NEIN:

DIE ANKUNFT she escalates the self-assuredly clumsy rhetoric of right-wing rabble-rousers into a breathless hymn of power takeover fantasies and fascist nature poetry. Jan Philipp Gloger, who has been dealing with the works of the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek in productions, including world and premiere performances, for many years, combines four of her plays into a grand edifice of repression and return. An evening about the lines of tradition of nationalist thought and right-wing violence through the centuries – and an evening that traces madness as well as laments forgetfulness and silence. As a prologue serves Jelinek's early work WOLKEN.HEIM. Here, Hölderlin, Hegel, and other classics already speak in a chorus of national pathos – thus preparing the ground for the future.

Team

Direction - Jan Philipp Gloger
Stage - Marie Roth
Costume - Franziska Bornkamm / Anna Lechner
Music - Kostia Rapoport
Light Design - Tobias Krauss
Dramaturgy - Brigitte Angela Ostermann / Matthias Seier

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