Automatenbüfett

In an insignificant small German town, Mrs Adam tries to keep her vending machine buffet running – a «restaurant» which, although it provides food and drink at the touch of a button, cannot do without human labour. That's why the business benefits when Mr Adam one day brings a dripping wet woman back from fishing instead of fish. Eva, who had actually already given up on life, was pulled out of the water against her will by the amateur angler and now proves to be a blessing for the vending machine buffet, as the men's group from the «German Amateur Fishermen's Association», who regularly gather there, are only too happy to have her bring them beer. However, when Eva commits herself to Mr Adam's supposedly groundbreaking idea of industrial fish farming, the microcosm of the vending machine buffet is thrown off balance and the eternal order of the small town is shaken.

The play by Austrian author Anna Gmeyner, rediscovered only a few years ago, was written against the backdrop of a world on the brink of collapse: «Europe is a powder keg that could be ignited at any moment,» it prophetically states. In 1933, National Socialism forced the Jewish writer into exile, from which she never returned during her lifetime. Her work will be performed on a Munich stage for the first time.