Matteo Haitzmann

In the city where Gottlieb Biedermann runs his hair tonic factory there has been a series of arson attacks. One day »friendly« strangers appear at the businessman’s door and introduce themselves as the pedlar Schmitz and salesman Eisenring. Biedermann invites them in, offers them a drink and is ultimately even willing to hand them matches. Max Frisch’s »morality play without a moral« is a political parable that derives its critical power not from unmasking lies but from the disturbing insight that the truth itself may have no consequences if nobody is willing to listen to it.