Brecht himself was not happy with this piece about the war returnee Andreas Kragler. For one night, Kragler becomes a street fighter and revolutionary, only to return in the end to the embrace of his former fiancée and bourgeois society. Brecht called his debut a "comedy". But it is the bitter comic of despair that fills "Drums in the Night".

A despair that arises from the war and the political struggles that follow. That is precisely what makes this early work so interesting again today. Of course, Brecht's expressionistic language is firmly rooted in the 1920s, but the wild, rough quality that makes it so unforgettable strikes a chord with our time, which the production by Felicitas Brucker, who has made waves with her Munich Ibsen works, will precisely unveil.