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Winner of the German Faust Theater Award 2025 in the Media category.
Winner “Video of the year” award in the “Theater heute” critics‘ survey.
„In its video and visual aesthetics, this production is nothing less than sensational.“ – nachtkritik
“This stream of images is a constant onslaught, a crazy maelstrom, a labyrinth in which one can lose oneself.” – Theater Heute
“A visual metaverse that floods the stage and dissolves the notion of a somehow tangible, unambiguous reality. A stage like an LSD horror trip.” – Süddeutsche Zeitung

The world needs a fresh start! The five hackers agree on this. But how to shake the masses out of their lethargy? Regardless of whether people even want to be saved, regardless of how megalomaniacal or naive their plans to save the world may seem, the five nerds are hacking for all they’re worth, because – cyberspace is a world of wonder! In Sibylle Berg’s version of a not-so-distant future, all areas of human life have been digitized, catalogued, measured and exploited for profit. And are just waiting to be taken over with a few good remote code executions – a kind of digital remote control. The only question is: by whom? And for what purpose? The five nerds are the good guys, of course, beating the system by its own means and collapsing it with a revolutionary cyber attack. After all: „If you want to win, you have to learn from people who want to own the planet, ruin it and then leave it.“

von Sibylle Berg in einer Bearbeitung von Kay Voges und Sibylle Baschung

Berliner Ensemble, 2024

Director: Kay Voges
Stage: Daniel Roskamp
Costume: Mona Ulrich
Music: Tommy Finke
Overall coordination of video design, montage: Andrea Schumacher
Digital Artists: Voxi Bärenklau, Andrea Familari, Max Hammel, Michael Klein, Arne Körner, Julius Pösselt, Max Schweder, Mario Simon, Jan Isaak Voges, Robi Voigt