At the end everyone is in civilian clothes. People, not civil servants or functionaries. People who are allowed to use violence at work and have to endure a lot of violence, physical, psychological and verbal. “We’re just not the good guys anymore, right?” says one of the characters who spent a good hour and a half on the stage of the Festival Hall in Recklinghausen creating a very personal, perspective-rich and complicated picture of existence in the German police service. They often see themselves as the good guys, as people who enforce basic rights, often to their own detriment.
“This is the police speaking”: documentary theater at the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen – Culture
