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Three women, three generations: Carol – who appears to be living the perfect family life – commits suicide when her daughter Anna is 16 years old.

Hendrik Höfgen is an actor and he just wants to act – to act at any price. He considers himself to be on the right side, on the side of art. He demands permission to be unpolitical in a time where this is rendered impossible. 

Scott is an average guy: He teaches literature at a trade school, is married with two children and always tries to do the right thing. But what exactly is the "right" thing? Is it to always be authentic? To always follow conventions?

It is hot and Europe is far away.

With his Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner took possession of the essentially German Nibelungen-myth and composed a work which was truly revolutionary at the time, with regards to both itsmmaterial and its music.

In "̶w̶̶a̶̶g̶̶n̶̶e̶̶r̶̶ ̶–̶ ̶̶d̶̶e̶̶r̶̶ ̶̶r̶̶i̶̶n̶̶g̶̶ ̶̶d̶̶e̶̶s̶̶ ̶̶n̶̶i̶̶b̶̶e̶̶l̶̶u̶̶n̶̶g̶̶e̶̶n̶ (a piece like fresh chopped eschenwood)", einer Überarbeitung des Wagnerschen Rings von Thomas Köck, irrlichtern die Figuren der Nibelungengesc

The play Die Mutter tells the story of the emancipation of a simple woman who evolves from a caring mother at peace with the conditions that she lives in into a staunch revolutionary.