In April 2018, Karl-Erivan Haub, heir to the German Tengelmann Group, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while skiing on the Klein Matterhorn. His body was never found. Almost 20 years earlier, the multi-billionaire with a Swiss university degree had laid off more than 25,000 employees as part of radical restructuring measures – including Dennis Schwabenland's father. The accusation: as a central purchaser at the Mülheim an der Ruhr site, he had bought a garden chair that was 50 pfennigs too expensive. The Piccolo II garden chair, TV judge Barbara Salesch, radical capitalist author Ayn Rand, and J.R. Ewing from the US series “Dallas” – in “Mülheim Absturz Ruhr,” they all become key witnesses to two crashes that could not be more different. A play about classism, life on welfare, and resistance to the myth of entrepreneurial success stories. A documentary counterattack.

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