Theater Espelkamp - Herr Teufel Faust

The here and now seems worthless to the scholar Heinrich Faust. Driven by an insatiable desire, he wants to expand the boundaries of teaching and science, indeed of his own self and the world, to overcome fantasy and reality, to suspend time, to drive mind and body into a frenzy. Faster, further, bigger, more. He makes a bet with the devil.

The legendary life story of Dr. Faust. In every century in which the material has been interpreted in literary, dramatic, musical and cinematic ways, it has retained its topicality. The constant drive in the modern world, the acceleration, the compulsion for constant self-optimization, more mindfulness, more climate protection, the church in a deep crisis. The character of Faust would be just as unhappy in the 21st century as he was in his time - a criticism of the "non-development" of society?