In one Berlin apartment in the 1920s, the aspiring writer Emil Henneberger struggles with the adversities and temptations of his time. In the other apartment, singer Sissi Schmidt and her pianist Henriette "Henry" Bauch rehearse for their lives in the 2020s. All three have the goal of conquering the boards that mean the world. The theater director's salon is the place where Emil, Sissi and Henry meet and the 1920s and 2020s oscillate into one another. A fast-paced game of patience begins, in which the three Helden play against time and the impossibility of the task. They look fate deep in the eye, use their humor to counter it and hurl snappy songs between its legs.
The great humorists Erich Kästner, Kurt Tucholsky, Claire Waldoff and Billy Wilder, who were unmistakably the inspiration for this play, would have been delighted by this musical fun.
