Two weeks ago, it was with mixed feelings that we bid farewell to the first programme of the Wühlmäuse ensemble, newly founded in 2017. Because it was so wonderful, and to whet your appetite for the programme that follows, we're showing the trailer here once more: https://www.wuehlmaeuse.de/ensemble-video-trailer On 20 January 2019 it all kicks off with: GELOGENE WAHRHEITEN: The year is 2020. Four people in a secret bunker at Potsdamer Platz, deep underground, hand-picked by Angela Merkel herself, are to save the world. And it must happen fast. For the disaster seems unstoppable. Marriages have already broken down by the thousand, global corporations face bankruptcy, the "Tagesschau" has to be shut down, and Horst Seehofer wants to lead Bavaria into independence. Because a dangerous illness is spreading: the truth virus. The virus's victims unlearn everything civilised people need in life: cheating, fibbing, fudging, lying and keeping quiet. They have to do the most dangerous thing of all: tell everyone and everything the truth. Our heroes work feverishly on a solution. A four-star general, a Nobel laureate in medicine, the CEO of a global corporation — were sadly unavailable. But there are competent stand-ins: a Neukölln beat policeman, a Rhineland bee researcher, a psychiatrist from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and the equal-opportunities officer for Britz-Buckow-Rudow. They haven't a clue and have only 24 hours before the virus reaches Moscow, Washington and Pyongyang. They can't stand each other, the secret services are after them, Olaf Scholz cuts their budget to 56.50 euros plus a meal allowance, and then the free Wi-Fi goes down too… Performed by: Birte Wolter, Santina Maria Schrader, Mathias Harrebye-Brandt and Robert Louis Griesbach Written and directed by Frank Lüdecke Premiere on 20 January 2019 at the Theater Die Wühlmäuse
The Wühlmäuse Battle the Truth Virus and the End of the World
