None like my city

In his 1930 singspiel Wir bauen eine Stadt (We're building a city), composer Paul Hindemith hopefully imagines a city in which only the children are in charge. "We are building a new city, it should be the most beautiful", he has them sing. But did Hindemith also ask the children? How do they really experience the city? What do children want from the future and how much freedom do they have? "Paul Hindemith, he gave us something, but do we still sing it like that in the choir today?" asks musician, film and theater maker Anton Spielmann. Together with the Theater Freiburg children's and youth choir, he turns Hindemith's song on its head and develops an evening of theater in which only the children's perspective counts. The children grab cameras and roam the city. They show their places, their paths, their stories, which are transmitted live onto a screen in the Kleines Haus. The result is a polyphonic hidden object between film and theater, desire and reality.