Die Ratten

Author: Hauptmann, Gerhart

Schnitzler, Barbara

Becker, Constanze

Benthin, Michael

Lehmann, Sven

Klein, Katrin

Zimmermann, Regine

Lebinsky, Horst

Ohm, Lotte

Reinhardt, Mathis

Schosnig, Isabel

Kohrt, Niklas

Jorissen, Henni

Costume Designer: Barth, Michaela

Composer: Wrede, Bert

Set Designer: Altmann, Olaf

Stage Director: Thalheimer, Michael

Lighting Designer: Streck, Henning

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Catalogue Number: THE10107

UPC: 4280000101075

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In a crack, a rat's gait, always bent and in the half-light, he causes the people in their misery to burn up emotionally. Olaf Altmann's ingenious set looks like a burning glass and intensifies the view, sharpens our eyes and ears for the events on the margins of society, a society that risks losing the weaker and the weakest, while the strong kill the sinking ship, until there is nothing left. And what an ensemble is director Thalheimer available! The Deutsche Theatre in Berlin at the height of its powers.

Former theatre director Harro Hassenreuter has set up a theater fund in his attic and gives private acting lessons. In this attic a fatal trade is concluded: Mrs. John, whose new-born has died, buys the unwanted child from the pregnant maid Pauline Piperkarcka and presents it as her own. When Pauline regrets the trade and wants the child back, Ms. John responds in panic. She exchanges the baby for her neighbour's terminally ill child and offers her criminal brother Bruno to frighten Pauline. Bruno kills Pauline and the desperate Mrs. John takes her own life.