Penthesilea: A Requiem/Penthesilea. The Last of the Year

Venue: Chamber - The Greeks outside the walls of Troy: The battle of the systems has become a war of position when the people of the Amazons appear in front of the army camp. The Amazons are proud fighters — at their helm: Queen Penthesilea in search of the once brilliant hero Achill. She, who is not allowed to do that, loves him. And he, who can't say that, loves her. They're both tired of killing. But war is bigger than any heroine or hero. And so a relentless game of love and death unfolds as the battlefields all around come to life.

Georgian-born writer and director Nino Haratischwili is one of the most important literary voices in Germany. Her novels The Eighth Life (Für Brilka) (2014), The Cat and the General (2018) and The Lack of Light (2022) have received numerous awards and tell of a country on the edge of Europe, an overpowering Russia and the permanent state of war.

With penthesilea. A requiem presents Nino Haratischwili with a new interpretation of ancient myth and investigates the clash of two worlds with criminalistic precision. Together with actresses from Georgia and the DT ensemble, she brings The Love Murder in Times of War to the stage in a bilingual production.