Dramatic essay in one act by Bernd Reiner Krieger
"Bliwwt allens bi'n Ollen?" is the motto of the upcoming season of the Fritz Reuter Theater, based on Fritz Reuter's first article of his Mecklenburg Constitution and fitting for the Reuter Year 2024, which marks the 150th anniversary of the death of the North German poet and writer.
Fritz Reuter began his creative career with his first humorous works such as Läuschen un Riemels and the Polterabendgedichten, as well as the monumental socially critical text Kein Hüsung, which he considered to be his best throughout his life. In Herr von Hakensterz und seine Leibeigenen, the early preliminary draft for his later novel Ut mine Stromtid, which was unpublished during his lifetime, we also find the later folk poet unusually combative and unforgiving. What might have happened in the Reuter household during this dramatic phase of transition from alcoholic political prisoner sentenced to death to acclaimed bestselling author? And what role did his wife Luise play in this? Unanswered questions. We can only speculate. Together with the Fritz-Reuter-Bühne, director and author Bernd Reiner Krieger does just that in a one-act dramatic essay.
The play is supported by the Strategy Fund of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to promote the anniversaries of Caspar David Friedrich and Fritz Reuter.
