Jannis Funk

"Frontalwatte" is like running against a hard wall and falling down softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a pointless world. They kill time by viewing apartments, jaw operations, incest and poetry slams. Their search for identity becomes a search for the best fitting role.

The plague decimated Europe, upending the social order. In the Americas, diseases introduced after 1492 led to the mass extinction of indigenous populations. Simple pathogens have sometimes had a greater impact on history than humans themselves. What does the next pandemic have in store for us, and will we be better prepared to deal with it?

Did democracy actually originate in Greece? Was the plague the worst epidemic of all time? And did we really work harder in the past than we do today? Is it true that ...? questions what we think we know and takes another look at history.