LEONCE AND LENA

"O God, I could love, why not? But a man—?" In the only so-called comedy by Vormärz author and revolutionary Georg Büchner, nothing is as it should be. The prince's children from the kingdoms of Popo and Pipi are to marry for political reasons. But both reject the arranged union – even though they have never met. Don't relationships with men inevitably lead to emotional extra work, mental stress and dissatisfaction?, Lena asks herself almost heterofatalistically. And can you trust your own feelings at all – especially when they are as overwhelming as they are with Leonce? Or is every desire just a tired copy of what others once called "love"? Fleeing from the hetero-monogamous role models of their parents and plagued by an emptiness that only the privileged can feel, the paths of Leonce and Lena finally cross in a fateful way.