Every year, around 120 billion euros are inherited in Germany and subject to taxation. The estimated number of unreported cases is probably around 250 billion! In their new project Showdown, subbotnik explores individual and collective experiences of inheritance and transforms them into a playful exercise in conflict resolution. Between show, theatre and negotiation room, the performers, as administrators of the inheritance, take on not only property, but also debts, traumas, privileges and unresolved family conflicts. In newly formed communities of heirs, the inheritance is divided up and rethought: who gets what? Who is left out? And what does inheritance mean in a society where property is always political? A citizens' choir – the theatre choir of Petrikirche Mülheim an der Ruhr and guests – condenses the voices of the audience – in a polyphonic dispute, a view opens up to the utopia of a new way of dealing with what is passed on!

Petrikirche Citizens' Choir: Maria Brecht, Barbara Bungartz, Kansas Bungartz, Gijs Burger, Anna Conrads, Susanne Degenhardt, Theo Gatzka, Mechthild Gildenstern, Lena Heidebrecht, Lena Heimann, Elvira Hermann, Simone Hoberg, Vanessa Neutsch, Elke Nyhuis, Carlos Preisser, Michael Scheelen, Frauke Zbikowski, Leandra Zbikowski, Lisa Zimmermann, Mina Zimmermann, Wolf Dieter Zimmermann

Live music with subbotnik 
Following the performance on 14 November, the band from the play will continue to play, and the audience is cordially invited to let all unanswered questions about social inequality flow into a collective dance!

subbotnik invites you to a funeral feast!
Following the performance on 30 November, subbotnik invites fellow campaigners and everyone else to come together for a clear soup and bring the festival to a close with live music.

A co-production by subbotnik with FFT Düsseldorf and Theater an der Ruhr, in collaboration with Orangerie Theater Cologne.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, the Cultural Office of the State Capital Düsseldorf, Kunststiftung NRW, Fonds Darstellende Künste.