Premiere in Stuttgart: To the beautiful view - a game with fates!

Premiere in Stuttgart: To the beautiful view - a game with fates!

Stuttgart, Deutschland - On June 22, 2025, the Schauspiel Stuttgart experienced the premiere of Ödön from Horváth's play "On the beautiful view". For example, not everything that is to be understood by this reflects the reality, like a quote from Ada, Freifrau von Stetten, illustrates: "I am very different, I rarely get there." These words take the audience to a hotel that does not offer its guests the hoped -for beauty of the view, but rather a depressing atmosphere.

The hotel "Zur Schönen View" is a place where the concerns of people are omnipresent. Hotel owners Strasser, a former officer and bonvivant, fight here, and the other characters fight with lack of money and personal problems. The wealthy Ada of Stetten in particular has a good hand to finance life to others, their pleasure and changing lovers are their way of escaping the dreary everyday life. While Strasser tries to offer his guests a certain quality of life, it quickly becomes clear that intoxication and pleasure are not the solutions for their challenges.

a game of fates and secrets

The relationship constellations in the play are complex. There is, for example, Max, the waiter with connection to the criminal milieu, Karl, a chauffeur with a dark past, and Müller, the wine dealer who does not shy away from getting his fascist views while he forces struts with debts. The new figure Christine, who was already in the hotel nine months ago, is particularly exciting: it claims that her child's fatherhood is entitled to what he denies ice cold. Strasser forged a plan with the other men, which fails, because Christine proves to be much less in need of help than he painted it.

Horváth's crisp dialogue and the unpredictable turns of the plot bring a fresh wind into the spectacle. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the theater can once again rely on its unpredictability, which is reinforced the charm and deeper understanding of longing to be different. This topic runs through Horváth's work and gives the figures a special depth.

The theater as a mirror of our time

This examination of reality is not only limited to Stuttgart. At the German theater, the director Jürgen Kruse shows the fates of the characters bluntly and sensitively in his staging of "Faith Love Hope". In an unconventional framework that pulls the audience directly into the action, Kruse deals with the topics of despair and human tornness, similar to what Horváth focuses on in "On the beautiful view".

Both productions illustrate: The challenges with which people are faced with are timeless and relevant. In a world in which money often determines relationships and the view of happiness is more appearance than be, the theater remains a place of reflection and change.