Voor het pensioen

Voor het pensioen
Voor het pensioen
(Een komedie van de Duitse ziel)
Olympique Dramatique & Toneelhuis

Voor het pensioen

04.02.26 — 05.02.26

A black, stark yet hilarious comedy by Thomas Bernhard about a society that remains haunted by its far-right past.

The play is set at the home of the Höller family, on the birthday of Heinrich Himmler, former SS leader. Rudolf Höller, once camp commander, is about to retire. For him and for his sister Vera, this is a high day. Clara, their younger, wheelchair-bound sister, is on the sidelines. She suffers from the weight of the past and observes, sadly, as her family embraces the atrocities.

In the Höllers' claustrophobic and incestuous home, an ideological power play unfolds. A celebration about guilt, resentment, denial and moral decay. About family ties that can never be broken.

With Voor het pensioen (Before Retirement), Austrian author Thomas Bernhard wrote what he considers his best play in 1979. He addresses the impotence and hypocrisy of post-war Germany in the face of its own Nazi past. Through the unsettling far-right rhetoric of his ossified characters, he ventilates his disgust. At the same time, Bernhard notes that we ourselves may not be much better.

Practical info

Tickets
15-28 euros
Dutch
Language
Dutch
None
Subtitles
None

Credits

Text

Thomas Bernhard

Translation

Tom Dewispelaere & Stijn Van Opstal

Direction

Tom Dewispelaere

Direction assistant

Stijn Van Opstal

Cast

Pierre Bokma, Tine Bertels & Katelijne Damen

Lighting design

Fabiana Piccioli

Costume design

Ilse Vandenbussche

Sound design

Diederik de Cock

Video design

Bram Delafonteyne

Design

Bram Delafonteyne & Tom Dewispelaere

Production

Toneelhuis

Dates

Wed 04.02.26 — 20u00

20u00

NTGent Schouwburg
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Thu 05.02.26 — 20u00

20u00

NTGent Schouwburg
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