As a place of production, the theater is unfamiliar with “shareholder value”. It is a company that cannot be run in a manner where one gets more out of it than one puts in. Society needs at least one institution where people invest more in their work than they can possibly receive in return. This really does apply to everyone who is involved in theater: the costs have no relationship to the results. Even if the theater thinks strategically or is adjusted on the basis of this, it simply is not a place for practicality and calculus. It is a nearly singular possibility for awareness and it is threatened with extinction. If you want to express it in a pathetically inelegant manner: theater is the foot in the door of enlightenment and its dialectic which is in danger of closing. If you pull it out, the door will close. That should be prevented.

(Carl Hegemann, dramaturg)