Jenseits von fukuyama at Nationaltheater Mannheim

In 1992, the American political analyst Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the "End of History"! Apparently that did not happen. But what does the "future" promise to us today? Is it a gleaming, fresh utopia or rather a chained monster? At the Institute for Happiness and Research for the Future, Peer is fighting for his own individual future and it would seem that the team around Dr. Phetka is searching for the meaning of human existence. However, the collecting results of human habits and online profiles are being collected, stored, analyzed, organized, and sold to the ultimate decision makers. Naturally the data may not reach the public and fall into the wrong hands - where of course it eventually does. While "outside" the "chorus of disappointed expectations" is already preparing resistance and opposition, and is protesting against the measuring and analysis of its biographies, there is raging between the employees of the institute a deadly struggle of competition.

Thomas Köck was born in Steyr, Upper Austria in 1986. Socialized through music, he first studied philosophy and literary criticism in Vienna and Berlin, then writing for the theater at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2012, with a residence at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig. With jenseits von fukuyama (beyond fukuyama) Köck won the Osnabrück Playwrighters Prize.