The play Geld.Gier.Macht. Der Fall Cum Ex will be performed at Bürgerhaus Nieder-Roden, Römerstraße 15, on Friday, 6 March, at 8 p.m. This play by Stefan Zimmermann deals with the background to the cum-ex scandal. The course of the cum-ex transactions is based on reality. However, a theatre play is not investigative journalism, and with this freedom Stefan Zimmermann cleverly and with a penetrating eye develops a political thriller that is as exciting as it is entertaining, without directly stepping on the toes of the "real" people involved. On New Year's Eve 2012, senior bank employee Lena tells her husband Emil that certain transactions at her bank seem dubious. Their mutual friend Lambert, a tax lawyer by profession, explains to Lena that tax fraud on an enormous scale has long been part of the "normal" business of many bankers and funds. The state is being systematically defrauded of billions through the "cum-ex" business model out of pure greed. Lambert himself was involved and now wants to get out. Lena decides to take action. Her husband and her friend Carla want to support her. However, they have to realise that the inventors of the model are obviously very well connected and maintain relationships right up to the highest circles. Not an easy endeavour. But Lena and her friends don't give up. They use decoys, hidden cameras and key witnesses to uncover the billion-dollar fraud. Especially at a time when taxpayers' money is urgently needed, those who have enriched themselves and those who have covered it up should be brought to justice. Tickets are available in advance from 22 euros at the Department of Culture, Sport and Volunteering in the Alte Apotheke, Schwesternstraße 10, as well as online at www.frankfurtticket.de. Remaining tickets can be purchased at the box office from 7.00 pm.
