To talk about the present, we have to start with the past. Günther Grass threw a new archetype into the literary world of post-war Germany in the form of Oskar Matzerath, a man who broke the system. The success was unprecedented. Oskar decided to stop growing up on his third birthday in 1927. From now on, equipped with a tin drum and a glass-smashing scream, he tells of a world in which the rupture of civilization is already underway. His resistance repeatedly encounters private and political bigotry - he reacts with defiance, stubbornness and egocentrism. What do anarchy and deviance mean today? Which systems would Oskar blow up now? "I write out loud," says Günther Grass, whose language forces its way onto the stage. Following his successful adaptations of Remarque and Stanišić, Christian Schlüter is now adapting this novel for the stage.

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