Charges (The Supplicants) - What happened after (2024)

A meeting in a villa in Potsdam, with people recruited from the worlds of politics, business and identitarian movements. A secret plan is revealed: the “re-migration” of millions of people from Germany (whose families originally came from abroad) to camps in Africa, regardless of whether these “foreigners” have by now German passports or were even born in Germany. However, the plan becomes public and prompts Elfriede Jelinek to write “an independent update” (Theater heute) of her work complex Charges (The Supplicants), which she began in 2014, and in particular to measure what was discussed in Potsdam against the (still) applicable laws.

“We are alive” – this simple message is even less trivial today than it was in 2014, and Charges (The Supplicants) - What happened after (2024) is an even more urgent take on the subject... Jelinek draws on formulations from the Potsdam protocols published by the media house Correctiv and plays with them in a way that is both disturbing and illuminating ... not imploring, but demanding, in all its sharpness and clarity.” (Nachtkritik)
“The mills of bureaucracy, the inhuman plans for expulsion, but also for changing our legal situation, are addressed in Elfriede Jelinek's own artful way.” (Ruhr Nachrichten)
“Jelinek's chorus addresses itself to the 'center of society' ... As Jelinek puts it: 'Evening is falling in the Western world.” (Die Welt)