In bester Lage

One building with six apartments – three upstairs, three downstairs. It is occupied by pragmatic neighbours: small investors who will be paying off their mortgages until they retire side-by-side with debt-free rich kids with a habit of recharging their electric cars with communal electricity. Singles next door to families with children’s shoes piled up in the corridor. Permanent noise next to invisibles whose only sign of existence is the underwear in the contested laundry room. In their co-owned property the roof is leaking, but stubborn homeowners are preventing access. The hallway – with its constant smell of frying (thank you, first floor right) – has no disabled access. But there is a brisk traffic of people passing through in response to short-term lets online. In the back yard the recycling bins are overflowing. They stoically vote against fibre optic broadband but tap into their neighbour’s wireless signal. At least renovating the pipework when the heating froze produced a unanimous response. But how can they agree when some of them are being ruined by additional costs and others are measuring up their balconies for solar panels? The new comedy by Kristof Magnusson (“Men’s Daycare”) and Gunnar Klack reveals how the microcosm of a group of homeowners can reflect the global madness of blocked investment, pluralism, parallel societies and ailing infrastructure. IN BESTER LAGE (“Ideally Situated”): here an apartment building is created before your eyes by director Kay Voges where different worlds lie behind neighbouring doors.