Naturally talented or well-trained? Hendrik Quast and Maika Knoblich are taking a closer look at their village roots on the occasion of their tenth stage anniversary. Together they immerse themselves in the world of hunting and the hobby sphere of shooting clubs. To be a hunter means, as the casting industry says, to attract attention and at best to win. In order to refresh their hunting skills, Quast & Knoblich adopt the language of casting. In fact, it can have a similar manipulative, selective effect and glorify violence as much as the hunter's jargon. Equipped with this hybrid competitive vocabulary, they plan to re-stage the opera classic Der Freischütz - a story about the desperate human desire for success and recognition.

ConCept, Text, Performance Hendrik Quast, Maika Knoblich ARTISTIC COLLABORATION, ProdUCTION Lisa Gehring TeCHNICAL DIRECTOR Johanna Seitz SOUND, VIDEO Tobias Klette COSTUMES Christina Neuss STAGE, Cinographie Hendrik Quast LIGHT Maika Knoblich, Johanna Seitz ProduCTION ASSISTANT Lisa Sonnen HOSPITANCE Luca Sonnen PRESS Kerstin Böttcher

A production by Quast & Knoblich in coproduction with Gessnerallee Zürich and SOPHIENSÆLE.  Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. Media partner: taz. die tageszeitung