Ferdinand von Schirach, GOD

Luchterhand - Theatre play - Hardcover - September 2020 - 160 pages

Richard Gärtner, 78, a physically and mentally healthy man, does not want to live on since the death of his wife. He is demanding a medication that will kill him. Doctors, lawyers, priests, ethicists, the state and society doubt whether they can help him with his suicide. The ethics committee discusses the case. In his new play, Ferdinand von Schirach deals with death, with questions concerning human freedom, autonomy and self-determination. Questions that have been discussed for years in different and passionate ways in the field of tension between morality, Christianity and politics. And like in his first drama "Terror", we have to pass our own verdict in the end. To whom does our life belong? Who decides about our death? Who are we? And who do we want to be?

• “Literature does not make supreme court decisions, but in the ideal case stimulates reflection in an extremely differentiated way - as here, in a text somewhere between court drama, documentary theatre, public university and existentialist witnessing.” - SWR2 Lesenswert Magazin

Rights sold to: France (Gallimard)