Martin Luther Propaganda Piece

Theatre
independent production
2016

Events

- 19 October 2019
- - Festival FETEAG Caruaru
- 16 October 2019
- - Festival FETEAG Recife
- 24 – 24 March 2018
- - Gessnerallee Zürich
- 21 + 22 November 2017
- - NET Festival Moskau
- 28 + 29 July 2017
- - St. Petersburg Summerfestival of the Arts "The Access Point"
- 9 April 2017
- - It's The Real Thing
  - Basel Documentary Platform '17
- 29 + 30 January 2017
- - Thalia Theater Hamburg
- 24 + 25 June 2016
- - FFT Kammerspiele, Düsseldorf
  - Festival Impulse 2017
- 11 + 12 March 2016
- - HAU Berlin
  - World Premiere

It begins with one of the most famous scenes from the New Testament: after his execution, Jesus appears to his disciples and allows the doubting Thomas to prick his flesh wound with his finger. A moment that splits the story in two like an axe blow. This is the final proof of the bodily resurrection and thus proof that Jesus is indeed the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God. There is a world before and a world after.

The scene has only one catch: it does not exist. John, who is the only one of the four evangelists to tell of Thomas the doubter, does report an encounter, but there is no contact. Even John is left with a remnant: the possibility that the appearance of Jesus was just a collective illusion. The entire Christian faith is based on a blank space.

The legend of St Thomas and Heiner Müller's ‘Der Auftrag’ are the godfathers of the strange evening of theatre that Boris Nikitin has developed with performer Malte Scholz. The performance, a mixture of theological discourse and atheistic sermon, searches for the ultimate interruption in the course of things that we call “reality”.

Invited to "Impulse" as one of the ten outstanding independent theatre works of 2016.

Idea, stage, text, director: Boris Nikitin
Performance, text: Malte Scholz
Choir: Unity Gospelchor Pankow
Production management: Annett Hardegen
Technical management: Benjamin Hauser

a production of HAU Hebbel am Ufer for the festival "Heiner Müller!"