Production

My Body is a Cage

Based on “Faust I” by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Leistungszentrum Schwarzer Kasten
Albert-Einstein-Schule

A Group of children sitting on the ground looking at a toy.

The ensemble of “My body is a cage” takes a critical look at the education system. ©Sina Kuhlins, Olaf Mönch

Trapped in an outdated, unattractive, immobile body - are we playing Faust or are we at school? In their free adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, the group questions what education means today - who defines it, who has access to it and where it reaches its limits. Trapped in old thought patterns and inner blockages, Faust makes a momentous pact for a moment of fulfilment. The production reflects the conflict between knowledge and physical self-determination and poses the question of whether our education system treats more symptoms than enables real change.

Available from 3.6.2025 as video on demand in the media library.

   

Jury comment

Only available in German.

With

Hannah Görtz, Magnus Görtz, Henrik Grein, Vianne Lauer, Anna Shatalov, Sophie Stock, Salome Wack, Johanna Wasem

Andrea FischerPlay Director
Olaf Mönch – Technology
Johanna Paloma SchuppCollaboration