Klasse & Kitsch

In a paradise city, in the front garden of Villa Eden, Eve basks in the expanse of her garden, the Alpine panorama, the carefree life. Her garden is in balance. Another Eve praises her husband, saying he is investing in the future by building boxes for the poor. And yet another Eve does charity work or donates for her own immortality. She collects art and only knows about the world of others from the newspapers. Sometimes she thinks: Your poverty makes me sick. In the same city, in the middle of the night, many other Evas are sleepless and dream of a better life in freedom, equality and justice for all.

The play deals with wealth and poverty, enlarges the paradise of the super-rich, bites into the apple of knowledge, talks about class differences, class shame, class consciousness, class solidarity and class kitsch. While the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, various Evas in the play “Klasse & Kitsch” seek the points of connection between the heterogeneous 99%, and ask how a solidary “we” could emerge: “Rolex for All”?


“Class & Kitsch. Collage in 3 Acts” is a play by Hayat Erdoğan. 
With original soundbites from Silvia Blocher, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance, as well as quotes from Annie Ernaux, Kae Tempest, Maria Barankow, Christian Baron, the Bible, Martin Schenk, Daniela Brodesser, Georg Büchner, Pierre Bourdieu, David Graeber, Schorsch Kamerun, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Judith Butler, Thomas Köck, Robert Misik, Brian Johnson, Katja Rost, Lisa Lehmann, Rudi Dutschke, Paris Hilton & song lyrics by Disarstar and much more.

Sophia Senn stages “Klasse & Kitsch” as a paradisiacal garden, revealing the abysses and fine distinctions in the cracks of society and celebrating her courageous directorial debut.


Language German
Duration 70 Minutes