Jugend ohne Gott
Jugend ohne Gott
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Jugend ohne Gott


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More detailsA teacher is correcting his pupils’ class tests. He notices that pupil N is very disrespectful towards people of color: “Blacks are deceitful, cowardly and lazy.” Horváth’s novel, which describes the young generation’s path to National Socialism, begins with this cruel but also possible situation today. A youth, beautiful, strong and ruthlessly cheerful. …
“Vorstadttheater reconstructs the novel for a contemporary audience and deals with the tensions between civil courage and followership, empathy and insensitivity. What do you do when you perceive injustice, but at the same time are too considerate or too cowardly to take action or at least take a stand? A question that is of particular concern today: with latent racism and an FPÖ that has only just damaged itself before ‘Platz 1’.” (Ed. Hauswirth)