Four years after his bestseller "Animal Farm," George Orwell achieved another hit in 1948: "1984" is set in a world where a totalitarian surveillance state dictates people's lives down to the last detail and truth can be defined arbitrarily. What Orwell understood as a threatening dystopia has today become reality in parts: His doublethink has, in a way, become socially acceptable since Trump's "alternative facts".
Actor Ludwig Blochberger and musician Stefan Weinzierl take on the depressingly relevant text of Orwell and stage a moving concert reading that couldn't fit better into an era of fake news and populism. 

Ludwig Blochberger, born in 1982 in East Berlin, was already on stage as a teenager at the Burgtheater in Vienna and later studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin. Since then, he has appeared in numerous film and theater productions. In 2007, he played the lead role in Rolf Hochhuth's world premiere "Heil Hitler!". He became known on television as Commissioner Tom Kupfer in "Der Alte" and Inspector Riwal in "Kommissar Dupin". At the end of 2024, he was seen as Rudolf Höß in the docudrama series "Die Spaltung der Welt".

Stefan Weinzierl's music fits into no category – just like his instrumentation. Whether with large orchestral percussion or small effect instruments: With the unique sound spectrum of his diverse percussion instruments, the drummer and multi-percussionist creates auditory worlds for high-energy stage productions and likes to draw connections to literature or theater.

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