GOTT (2023)
Elisabeth Gärtner no longer wants to live after the death of her husband. The 78-year-old requests a prescription for a lethal medication from her medical officer, Dr Brandt. But the doctor does not want to assist a suicide. She does not think it is right to help a healthy person commit suicide - Mrs Gärtner is not ill and is not suffering from severe pain. In an ethics council, legal, medical and theological experts discuss the case as an example and offer a variety of positions and perspectives on the socially controversial topic of euthanasia. Do people have a right to a self-determined death? Who decides on our death? Who does our life belong to - a god, society, our family or just ourselves?
The lawyer and successful author Ferdinand von Schirach shows the complexity of the topic and forces the audience to rethink their personal stance on the subject through the multi-layered arguments. As with the global success Terror, the audience has the last word in Gott.
Graubünden director Jonas Bernetta brings the highly topical debate play to the stage in a text version adapted to Swiss circumstances and regulations. Eighty-year-old actress Heidi Maria Glössner can be seen in the role of Elisabeth Gärtner.
