Actor, director and author Simon McBurney is an artistic multitalent. For concert stages in Berlin, Los Angeles and San Francisco he directs a programme that leads us deep into the abysses of the 1920s, particularly in Hindemith’s operatic shocker Murderer, Hope of Women, which is based on a drama by Oskar Kokoschka. It is about sex and dark desires, brutality and murder. McBurney and his artistic team work with techniques such as video projections, thus creating an atmosphere which makes the social and political climate in the time of the Weimar Republic come alive.