Frankenstein

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. Tech companies and governments are pumping billions into this promising key technology of the future. It is set to revolutionize practically all areas of human life. But the idea is nothing new: Mary Shelley had her Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein create an artificial intelligence back in 1816 - his famous monster has been wandering through pop culture for over 200 years. Like today's "large language models" (e.g. ChatGPT), it learns through observation and imitation. Its clumsy brutality touches and frightens us, just as AI provokes both euphoria and apocalyptic fear. But what if these two reaction patterns were not contradictory at all? Is the desire for invention perhaps rooted in a longing for self-abolition? Are we deliberately replacing ourselves with a new, better form of existence - more rational and less destructive than the extinct human species?
In his playful reinterpretation, director Tristan Linder combines Mary Shelley's classic with current technological debates, using the very tools that are also the subject. An evening of theater between science fiction and creation myth, between hope and fear.