The novel Herscht 07769 offers a haunting and unsettling, yet strikingly lucid vision of contemporary Europe—a landscape marked by social instability on every level. Set in an imaginary German town, the events it portrays are easily recognizable in countless communities across Europe. At its center is the young Florian Herscht, whose passivity and isolation bring him into contact with a radicalized environment, as an atmosphere of threat and ideological tension gradually takes shape around him.

Blurring the boundaries between reality and the inner world of its characters, Herscht 07769 opens up a powerful and richly layered space for theatrical interpretation.