It seems purely arbitrary. A general has decreed that he alone may be the judge of who goes where, and abruptly draws a borderline. Just like that. Because he wants to go down in history. A strip of barrier tape marks the divide. A guard stands watch to ensure that no one – absolutely no one – crosses the border. Not an ice cream vendor, not an astronaut, not even little Paulinchen who wants to visit her grandmother. The struggle to maintain borders is a highly political issue and particularly topical in Europe right now. And it bears significance on both a large and small scale. This playful open-air production impressively demonstrates this: so simple in its approach, so expressive in its execution. Just two performers depict all of the lovingly witty characters – from the general, who elongates his consonants to the point of hilarity beneath his long moustache, to the reporter, who proclaims breaking news into the microphone in a Swiss-German dialect. For this, they throw on costumes that appear as if they were made together with children. And a dog scurries across the asphalt as a cardboard box with rubber glove ears. The work all this is based upon, the storybook by Isabel Minhós Martins and Bernardo P. Carvalho, was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2017. The ensemble of musicians from Beethoven Orchestra and actors from Theater Bonn perform this ingeniously simple story as a musical-theatrical happening. A celebration of freedom for every schoolyard!