A group of young people in chequered shirts are sitting on cardboard boxes, with books lying on the floor in front of them. One person throws a book.
Theatertreffen der Jugend 2025: My Body is a Cage
© Berliner Festspiele

Trapped in an outdated, unattractive, immobile body - are we playing Faust or are we at school? In their free adaptation of Goethe’s Faust, the group questions what education means today - who defines it, who has access to it and where it reaches its limits. Trapped in old thought patterns and inner blockages, Faust makes a momentous pact for a moment of fulfilment. The production reflects the conflict between knowledge and physical self-determination and poses the question of whether our education system treats more symptoms than enables real change.

With

Hannah Görtz, Magnus Görtz, Henrik Grein, Vianne Lauer, Anna Shatalov, Sophie Stock, Salome Wack, Johanna Wasem

Andrea FischerPlay Director
Olaf Mönch – Technology
Johanna Paloma SchuppCollaboration