Die Schutzbefohlenen (after Aeschylus Die Schutzflehenden)

Author: Aeschylus

Author: Jelinek, Elfriede

Hellwig, Ellen

Messerschmidt, Bettina

Pempelforth, Michael

Born, Erik

Dyszewski, Andreas

Keckels, Daniela

Neuber, Hartmut

Volkner, Brian

Waldow, Lara

Stage Director: Lubbe, Enrico

Lighting Designer: Riechert, Ralf

Set Designer: Gretler, Hugo

Costume Designer: Blickenstorfer, Sabine

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Catalogue Number: THE08021

UPC: 4260415080219

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In 2013, refugees seek asylum in Austria and take refuge in the Votivkirche on Vienna's Ringstrasse - and are evicted. Elfriede Jelinek takes this incident as the occasion of a vehement discussion about the treatment of affluent society with the refugees from the Mediterranean, about the constructs of mental and geographical isolation and the fear of the stranger.

As a blueprint, Elfriede Jelinek uses Aeschylus' text The Suppliants, which describes the fate of the daughters of Danaos as the first part of a lost work. These escape from their native Egypt over the sea to the beach of Argos. There they plead with King Pelasgos for protection. Pelasgos questions his people - and that decides to give asylum to the daughters of Danaos.

People are looking for protection and asylum. A hot topic now - and always. In the Leipzig staging of Enrico Lubbe, the two pieces Die Schutzflewoender and Die Schutzbefohlenen will be shown one evening for the first time.

A humanistic utopia from antiquity and a look at the reality of the present meet each other. Written about 463 BC By one of the first playwrights, Aeschylus, and written in 2013 by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek.