From the very start he was fascinated by the depth and unpredictability of Peter in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play. Although the young actor was being considered for the lead, he himself suggested to director Jessica Glause that he play Peter instead. After a further casting audition for the role, he was allowed to immerse himself entirely in Peter's furious inner life and to play this torn young man. "I quickly realised that there is far more behind his outbursts of rage, and this depth of the character drew me in. I have often played such types before, for instance with Detlev Buck." And yet Maximilian Diehle is by no means an established character actor — he is still on his way to becoming one of the greats. But with his talent for playing this difficult role, he won over the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Among Berliners and theatre lovers, too, word seems to have got around that this production is really very good. All performances up to the end of March are already sold out. With this play, the theatre certainly captures the zeitgeist. The 23-year-old Fassbinder wrote it in 1968, when the first guest workers were arriving in West Germany. Almost fifty years later they live here in the third generation, and Germany faces the challenge of integrating hundreds of thousands of refugees. In "Katzelmacher", too, a young Greek man turns up in a small town that until then has been marked by dreariness. A group of young people hangs around — on the playground, in the street, at the pub. They booze, have sex and cheat on each other, gossip, are bored, frustrated by the emptiness within and around them. Because it has presumably always been this way and must be this way. Because they lack the imagination to picture how it could be different. Then Jorgos appears. The stranger awakens longings and aggressions and calls the old order into question. For: "I'm afraid, because from no one does anything good ever come."Dates: 6/13/22 February 9/16/21/31 March etc.
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