DIE KRANKSCHREIBUNG

Staatstheater Cottbus
2026

DIRECTOR | Aram Tafreshian
STAGE DESIGN | LIGHT | Mara-Madeleine Pieler
COSTUME | Mara-Madeleine Pieler, Aram Tafreshian
MUSIC | Tom Gatza
DRAMATURGY | Leonie Hahn

Die Krankschreibung explores exhaustion not only as a personal condition, but as a social and political one. In a world shaped by pressure, expectation and permanent functionality, the production asks what it means to withdraw, to fail, or to no longer be able to continue.

The performance moves through states of tension, vulnerability and collective unease. Individual fatigue begins to mirror broader structures: systems of control, social roles and the quiet violence of having to remain operational.

Rather than telling a linear story, the piece develops a theatrical landscape in which illness, retreat and instability become readable as signs of a society under strain.