"Einsteins Verrat" by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, in the translation by Annette and Paul Bäcker, ran with great success at the Schlosspark Theater Berlin and now goes on tour across Germany this October. Nico Birnbaum plays the FBI agent Simpson in Paul Bäcker's production. Matthias Freihof plays Einstein and Volker Brandt the vagabond. Three men by the lake, Princeton/New Jersey: a vagabond who lost his son in the war and therefore hates the Germans; Einstein, the world-famous scientist, a German who fled the Nazis for the USA; and Simpson, an FBI agent who scents red treachery in this German, takes his Jewishness for a cover for Bolshevism and blackmails the vagabond into spying on Einstein.Photo: Frida Kutsche