Männerphantasien

Based on Freikorps literature from the 1920s, he clairvoyantly thought about the destructive self-image and female image of the “soldier man” and, with its combination of sexuality, gender and violence, put the emergence of National Socialism in a new light.

Around 45 years after its first release, director Theresa Thomasberger takes Theweleit's work as a spoken text for the stage: For Thomasberger and her team, the epoch-making investigation forms the basis for a survey of today's manifestations of fascist masculinity, the devaluation of women* in the media-driven world Reality up to current abysmal forms of collectivity.

Equality is also perceived as oppression online: the incel community - men who live involuntarily without sex - believes they have a right to women and sexuality because of their gender; Angry alpha males and misogynistic pick-up masters conjure up unattainable ideas of masculinity and despair of them at the same time. Instead of declaring these ideals a problem, fear of feminist resistance is being fueled, which is occurring with great force today.

In order to explore this, the authorship at the German Theater will be expanded to include three contemporary voices: