Ein Wenig Licht. Und Diese Ruhe.

Sibylle Berg’s new play is set in a future that feels unsettlingly like our present. When a war breaks out between Green… er… Liechtenstein and Luxemburg, an engineer who has also been drafted for military service slowly realises that maybe it was never possible to reconcile his queerness with his job in the arms industry after all. Sheltering from the nearby detonations somewhere, he starts researching: exploring the texture of thought that is supposed to be our world. Sibylle Berg’s text is a tender monologue about the despair at our present times, whose discourses rotate incessantly like an idling engine – and about the fear of the returning militarisation of our society. With music. And a little silence.    

After "RCE" and "Es kann doch nur noch besser werden", "Ein Wenig Licht. Und diese Ruhe." will be the third play by Sibylle Berg performed at the Berliner Ensemble. The young director Dennis Nolden – who was an assistant director at the BE until the 2024/25 season – will stage Sibylle Berg’s monologue as a solo with Peter Moltzen.