Interactive peasant war in Böblingen: Decide on history!

Interactive peasant war in Böblingen: Decide on history!

In Böblingen, an interactive play causes a stir that not only maintains, but also actively incorporates the audience into the plot. On July 11, 2025, the play celebrates its premiere on the Böblinger marketplace under the title "Abbess or Magd - decisions make history". The DAT-Ensemble and the Theater Youth Club bring an exciting piece full of possibilities onto the stage that focuses on the decisions of the audience. The performance of the six files offers 33 different options for action in which the audience itself decides on the course of history, while they are equipped with headphones and at the end of each act a protagonist can choose href = "https://www.krzbb.de/inhalt.bauernkriegsstueck-in-boeblingen-das-part-part-des-stuecks-werd.f58d2249-4be6-a686-a-45f703f3f93c.html" Class = "Source_1"> District newspaper Böblingen .

The staging, which is led by Tobias Ballnus and Tanja Frank, was created in collaboration with Lea Wegner, the head of the Peasant War Museum. Although the scenes are not historically occupied, they are plausible and offer insights into the need of the farmers and the monastery duty of care, while in the background the demands for facilitating taxes and the end of serfdom are discussed. The actors are on stage in medieval clothes, with abbess Christina in Nonnenhabit and farmers to be seen in punk look.

interactive elements and dialogue

A special feature of the piece is the exchange after the performance, which enables the viewers to share their impressions and to discuss how individual and collective decisions can influence the course of history. A sparse use of props ensures that the dynamics of the piece remains in the foreground, so that emotions and decisions of the characters are clearly noticeable.

The exact performance dates are from 11th to 13th, 17th-20th. as well as 24.-27. July, each at 7:30 p.m., and the ticket prices are regular at 14 euros, 10 euros reduced and 35 euros for family tickets. Students of the DAT art school have free admission. Tickets are available via the websites artschule-boeblingen.de or Boeblingen.reservix.de .

Another view of the peasant war

parallel to the performance in Böblingen, the drama "If not today, when" by Franz Xaver Ott in Count Zeppelin-Haus in Friedrichshafen is performed. The premiere took place on May 17, 2025 and the piece also addressed the uprising of the farmers from 1525 against nobility, imperial cities and clergy. It is staged by the Theater lindenhof and illuminates the cleavement between the privileged and the "common man" as well as the "twelve articles", which as early demands for human and freedom Europe apply. The piece is listed in several cities, including Stuttgart and Reutlingen.

In order to deepen the understanding of the historical context, the piece informs the viewers comprehensively about the topic of the peasant war and the theological debates of the reformers. The Weingarten Treaty is also discussed, which deepens the commitment of a better understanding of the situation at that time.

Another highlight is the open-air spectacle "1525-peasant war" on the open-air stage in Altusried, which takes place from June 14 to August 17, 2025. There, more than 500 participants, horses and pyrotechnics will be used to fill the stage with a fictional action in which the focus is on three sisters. Here, too, the topic of freedom and justice is treated, and in the sense of the time, the spectacle will not only entertain the spectators, but will also bring in contact with the historical circumstances, informs Allgäu .