The Robbers

A 17-year-old boy has been imprisoned for years in a despotic military academy and writes about his longed-for revolution. He writes about patricide and gang formation, about the rebellion of young people against the order of their parents, about extreme violence, including violence against women as a matter of course, and about radical thinking. At the centre is the popular motif of the feuding brothers who take revenge in different ways. In the end, there is the taste of freedom that comes at the cost of human lives.

With Karl and Franz Moor, Schiller imagined a double attack on his era. To this day, his dramatic debut, as required reading in schools, burns the revolutionary gesture into the minds of ever new teenagers. In times when the extreme right is propagating revolution and patriarchy is reforming, the question arises whether we celebrate or fear the rebellion in Schiller's The Robbers.

Lucia Bihler's productions are full of memorable visual compositions and dreamlike, powerful settings. With Die Räuber (The Robbers), the director is presenting herself to the Bochum audience for the first time.