The bizarre story of the collapse of the Munich financial service provider Wirecard.

The biggest financial scandal in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany revolves around virtual billions in turnover and the seductive fantasy of a world-class German tech giant which ultimately sought to play in the Champions League of Silicon Valley. The play with different levels of reality became a frequently used motif in utopian-fantastic stories in the 1960s. Daniel F. Galouye had already foreseen a “world on the wire” in his novel “Simulacron – 3”, first published in the USA in 1964: The struggle of the individual against a seemingly omnipotent faceless system that makes the individuals living within it dance like puppets on a wire. A political parable of timeless validity that can be found in film adaptations of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “World on a Wire” and “Starship Enterprise – The Next Generation”, among others, as well as in the film trilogy “Matrix” made between 1999 and 2003. Now that artificial intelligence increasingly determines all areas of life, these dystopian visions of the future are gaining in topicality.

On the ground of this philosophical mind game of fictional existence and reality of the fantastic literature of the 1960s, Łukasz Twarkowski and his team condense the Munich thriller about Wirecard into a completely new story. A rousing evening of theatre about the limits of our perception.

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PREMIERE: 19.11.2023