It's 1918. The Sudeten Germans find themselves in a state they don't want to be in. Heinz Rutha, the charismatic leader of the Wandervogel youth squad, sees a path to emancipation through the education of an elite group of young boys. A Männerbund that will become the ruling class of a future Sudeten German state based on Spannist principles.

Today almost forgotten but at the time well-known politician Heinz Rutha was a rising star of the Sudeten German movement in interwar Czechoslovakia. He even represented Henlein's SdP as foreign minister. His life full of paradoxes, is the starting point for the stage composition Wandervogel, which attempts to glimpse the genesis of ideas that later materialised into a social catastrophe. 

But this is not just a theatrical version of a Wikipedia history entry. Parallel to the historical theme, the director Jan Mocek and a collective of performers work with their own intimate experiences and search for contemporary meanings of concepts such as sexuality, body, state, fascism, nature, beauty.

premiere: November 28, 2024.