INTRIGUE AND LOVE

About the show

And here they are again at last. With a brand-new episode of their beloved radio show, the crew behind productions like Effi Briest, Anna Karenina, and The Nibelungs is tackling a top-tier theatrical classic—one that remains a chart-topper among plays to this day. Braving the elements and channeling the spirit of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), "Radio Schiller" will soon be broadcasting live from the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus. Viewed by some as "a youthful indiscretion, full of disgusting repetitions and blasphemous expressions, full of crude, vulgar humor and unintelligible drivel" (Clemens Brentano and Karl Philipp Moritz), and by others as "the towering pinnacle of bourgeois drama" (Otto Brahm), Kabale und Liebe (Intrigue and Love) guarantees dangerous passions and pulls out all the stops of a cunning conspiracy. Theodor Fontane has seen the tragedy "probably twenty times, yet is captivated by it anew each time. There is little else that has such a powerful effect from the stage." For, as literary authority Marcel Reich-Ranicki put it, "there is simply no match for Schiller."