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There are three important events in life: birth, death and a salary increase. Two of these are certain, but with the third, it is more than questionable how high the chances actually are. The question of a pay rise must nevertheless be asked, and Perec's proliferating text plays through all its possible variations and outcomes – literally all of them: Is the department head in his office? Will he come back? Does he have time? Does he offer a chair? Does he understand the request? Does he support it? And what will come of it? Yes? No?
With great humour, Georges Perec dissects working and everyday life and plays with the rules of language. Perec's texts, long unjustly underrated in the theatre, are now finally being (re)discovered for the stage. Following his productions of Clyde and Bonnie and Eschenliebe in the Oval Office, Albrecht Schroeder is now staging one of this author's plays in Bochum for the first time: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise, or How to Maximise Your Chances of Getting a Raise from Your Boss, Regardless of Sanitary, Psychological, Climatic, Economic or Other Conditions.
Information about the piece
- The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
- by Georges Perec
- Director: Albrecht Schroeder
- With: Puk Brouwers, Danai Chatzipetrou, William Cooper, Linde Dercon, Jost Grix, Jakob Schmidt
- Place: Kammerspiele
- Duration: about 1:30, no break
- Premiere: 19.02.2026
- Language: DE EN
Information about the performances
Note: Stroboscopic lighting effects are used in some scenes.
Premiere postponement: Unfortunately, due to an injury in the ensemble, we have to postpone the premiere of Die Gehaltserhöhung from 19 February to 1 March. The performance on 22 February will also be cancelled. As an alternative, we are offering Club 27 – Songs für die Ewigkeit on that date. Tickets that have already been purchased can be exchanged or refunded. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding!
Performances
17:00
Kammerspiele
+ Introduction 16:30
+ afterwards premiere party at Tanas
Participants
- Director: Albrecht Schroeder
All people
- Director: Albrecht Schroeder
- Stage design, Costume design: Dorothee Curio
- Music: Philipp Rohmer
- Light design: Sirko Lamprecht
- Dramaturgy: Moritz Hannemann
- Assistant director: Gianluca Elbert
- Assistant stage design: Sascha Kühne
- Assistant costume design: Alexis Mersmann
- Trainee costume design: Finja Brunow, Henry Winkler
- Prompter: Jutta Schneider
- Stage manager: Christina Baston
- Speech coaching: Roswitha Dierck
- Supertitle manager: Anette Nierhoff / Sabine Heil