Wolf at the Kulturforum Fürth: Touching youth theater about courage and friendship
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A poetic theater experience about courage, friendship, and the shadows in the forest
With Wolf, the Stadttheater Fürth, in collaboration with the Theater Mummpitz, brings Saša Stanišić's award-winning novel to life as a vibrant stage adaptation at the Kulturforum Fürth. The production is aimed at young audiences aged 10 and above and tells with wit, tension, and a fine sense of nuances about friendship, exclusion, and the courage to face a painful reality.
When a summer camp becomes a test
Right from the start, the tone is set: Kemi is sent by his mother to a summer camp in the middle of the forest, even though he sees trees more as furniture than as adventure. At the camp, he meets Jörg, the quiet, smart outsider who knows plants as if he has secretly made contracts with them. What begins as a reluctant summer week quickly turns into an intense stage experience, revealing how quickly group pressure and mockery can turn into violence.
Dramaturgy with tension and emotional precision
The material thrives on its dual motion: on one hand, from the light, seemingly playful tone of a children’s and youth novel, and on the other, from the oppressive escalation when Marko and his clique target Jörg. It is exactly here that the dramaturgy unfolds its power. The story stays close to the characters without simplifying them. This makes the evening so credible: it tells not only of a wolf at the foot of the bed but also of the much more real wolves of devaluation, avoidance, and fear.
Stage design, music, and atmosphere at the Kulturforum Fürth
With Inda Buschmann directing, Caroline Stauch for set and costumes, and Paul Bießmann on music, a theater evening is created that does not merely claim atmosphere but makes it visible and audible. The Kulturforum Fürth provides the perfect setting: the Great Hall as a playing area for tension, imagery, and physical presence. Music, light, and costumes do not just serve as accompaniment but are part of the emotional narrative. This creates a dense theater atmosphere, especially for families and school classes, that resonates long after.
An award-winning novel, a relevant story
Saša Stanišić's novel Wolf was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize 2024 and has long established itself as a significant text for young audiences. The stage adaptation translates this literary strength into immediate acting art. The ensemble around Michael Bang, David Campling, Gabriel Drempetic, Lisa Fedkenheuer, and Christine Mertens brings the characters to the stage in a way that is close, vulnerable, and edgy. Thus, it creates not a pedagogical finger-wagging but an evening that releases empathy and raises questions about one's own stance.
Conclusion: Wolf promises an intense theater experience full of tension, poetry, and humanity at the Kulturforum Fürth. Anyone who values stories about friendship, civil courage, and being different should not miss this date. Live, it becomes an evening that touches and moves.
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