When does the performance start?

The performance starts on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 8:00 PM.

Where does the performance take place?

It will be performed at the ETA Hoffmann Theater Bamberg at E.T.A.-Hoffmann-Platz 1 in 96047 Bamberg.

What is the price of a ticket?

The regular ticket price is 26 euros. Reduced tickets are available depending on eligibility.

Who designed the production?

The direction is by Fabian Thon. The stage and costume are by Nadin Schumacher, music by Dorian Behner, and dramaturgy by Antonia Leitgeb-Busche.

What is the play about?

The comedy tells the story of the android Sophia, who was created as a conversation partner for a university professor and can no longer be controlled after a change in her programming.

Sophia between Human and Machine: A Clever Theater Evening about Artificial Closeness

Name: Sophia or the End of Humanists, Comedy by Moritz Rinke
Start: 2026-10-02T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-02T20:00:00+02:00
Location: ETA Hoffmann Theater Bamberg

When artificial intelligence suddenly shows feelings

On October 2, 2026, the ETA Hoffmann Theater Bamberg invites you to Moritz Rinke's comedy Sophia or the End of Humanists. At 8:00 PM, a cheerful-dystopian stage experience about artificial intelligence, human closeness, and the fragile line between programmed adaptation and free will begins.

An android with surprisingly human questions

Sophia is smart, beautiful, patient, and always ready to retrieve thousands of facts. University professor Wolfgang has programmed her to discuss Theodor Mommsen with him and prepare a lecture on populism in ancient Rome. In this initially orderly world, artificial intelligence appears as the ideal conversation partner: precise, available, and seemingly completely controllable.

Comedy between antiquity, present, and future

The dramatic tension arises from the contrast between humanistic scholarship and digital present. When a computer scientist changes Sophia's settings, the carefully balanced relationship structure begins to wobble. The android suddenly is no longer the predictable companion that Wolfgang has created. Control becomes uncertainty, and comfort leads to conflict.

Moritz Rinke combines sharp humor with social observation. His comedy examines the influence of artificial intelligence on intimate spaces and simultaneously questions how human relationships remain when people increasingly shape their counterparts according to their own needs.

Production with a precise focus on interpersonal relationships

Director Fabian Thon guides the ensemble through a production where acting and technological fiction meet. Nadin Schumacher is responsible for the stage and costume, Dorian Behner designs the music, and Antonia Leitgeb-Busche manages the dramaturgy. The interplay of these crafts promises a theater atmosphere where scientific debate, family dynamics, and absurd comedy intertwine.

On stage are Sophie Angehrn, Julia Lindhorst-Apfelthaler, Jan-Hendrik von Minden, and Florian Walter. Their characters navigate a tension field of thirst for knowledge, desire, self-reflection, and the longing for real closeness. The set becomes a space for thought: a place where the big questions of humanism meet the immediate present of digital systems.

An evening about the future of the human

Sophia or the End of Humanists combines socially critical theater, intelligent comedy, and an accessible engagement with artificial intelligence. The audience can expect a witty, quirky, and simultaneously thought-provoking theater evening that playfully tests their own relationship with technology and closeness. Those who want to experience contemporary stage art with a clear reference to the present will find an entertaining and stimulating evening at the ETA Hoffmann Theater.