Kleiner Mann – was nun?
By Hans Fallada
Fallada's 1932 novel of a clerk, a pregnancy and a job market closing in.
In 63 days
4 November 2026 · 20:00 Uhr
About Kleiner Mann – was nun?
Published months before Hitler took power, Fallada's novel follows an ordinary couple through the slump, unemployment and the slow discovery that decency is not a survival strategy. It was an international bestseller precisely because nothing exceptional happens in it.
Performances
- 4 November 2026, 20:00 UhrStudiobühnePremiereTickets →
- Tickets
- 17,70 €
- Stage
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Where
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Organiser
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar
Tickets
17,70 €
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical periods
Published in 1932, months before the republic ended — the novel is that last year seen from a rented room.
Germany's first democracy is named after this town for an almost accidental reason: in 1919 the capital was too dangerous to write a constitution in, and Weimar was quiet.