Malte Schlösser WER NICHT WEITER WEIß, HAT RECHT

Making oneself heard as a critique of capitalism

Anyone who thinks they have all the answers on their own has failed to understand the crisis.
And perhaps still believes the world is a stage for
egocentric self-assertion. Yet nothing disturbs
our togetherness as much as the capitalist command
to present oneself as something special.

The performers this evening are resisting the
patriarchal gesture of flooding spaces with their own self-absorption.
They seek a place of post-identity self-feeling
through relational care. But how is that possible when the structures
with which we inflict violence upon one another also lie within us?

The production explores what it might mean to
allow oneself to be questioned in a trauma-sensitive way, in order to become.
One’s own critique of narcissism as an embodied
critique of capitalism. What must happen for the feeling of
lostness is transformed into collective and relationship-oriented care?

In a cycle of linguistic destruction and reconstruction, musical
trance and a light-filled arena, the production opens up an atmospheric
discursive space between abstraction and intimacy, in order to mark the ideological
grammars of disconnection.
Malte Schlösser & Team seek subversive aesthetics of repetition to counter
the traumatic compulsion to repeat. An escape from an
overly complex world through the radical recognition of one’s own lostness:
whoever doesn’t know what to do is right!

By and with Lisa Heinrici / Emma Rönnebeck
Concept/Direction/Text Malte Schlösser
Music Michelangelo Contini
Lighting/Costumes/Set & Spatial Design, Dramaturg and Technical Director Thomas Giger
Video artist Nicolas Gebbe
Text work (playful/dramaturgical) Marie Jordan
Dramaturgy Anna Krauß
Scenes/scenic texts Emma Rönnebeck / Malte Schlösser
Assistant Director & Dramaturgy/Prompter Elisabeth Conradi
Production & Assistant Director Lilli Else Dietmann
Production Manager Eva-Karen Tittmann
Production Manager (WA & Guest Performances ) Aurora Kellermann
Technical Production Manager Chris Wohlrab
Sound engineering Brandon Walsh
Stage Technicians Nora Tormann / Vincent Aritside Calafiore
PR Yven Augustin
Photography William Minke / Milena Schlösser
Poster design KruseundMüller
Co-production TD Berlin

Supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion
Guest performances supported by the Heinz und Dürr Foundation in Hamburg and NPN in Dresden

Premiere 15 Dec 2023 at TD Berlin

Further dates
Societaetstheater Dresden: 16–18 April 2026