ELEKTRA – 750 PS Vergangenheitsüberwältigung

The celebrated war hero is murdered by his wife Klytaimnestra and her new lover Aigisthos immediately after his return, in revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenie. The siblings Elektra and Orestes then swear to avenge the treacherous murder of their beloved father. The family curse of eternal revenge continues relentlessly, even into modern Germany. In this radical reinterpretation by Lorenz Nolting and Sofie Boiten, Elektra's rage is directed not at the dark past of her own family, but at the troubled family history of one of Germany's wealthiest industrial dynasties: the Quandt family, whose prosperity is based, not least, on the exploitation of NS forced laborers by their ancestors. The ancient revenge complex is applied to a current guilt structure, raising central questions: How does a subsequent generation deal with the legacy of great guilt? What does responsibility mean amidst collective repression?