In ›Nochmal von vorn‹ an elderly gentleman and his daughter-in-law withdraw to a country cottage to have a tête-à-tête in peace. However, a ghost appears who turns out to be a dictator to whom the father-in-law had been enslaved in body and soul in younger years. What begins as an erotomanic farce and seems to escalate into a grotesque conflict of the generations finally becomes a deadly serious political satire about a subject which is still of topical interest: the ghost of totalitarianism. In ›Propheten‹ a dictator promises his people a prophet in order to preserve power. However, two of them appear at the same time looking exactly alike. Who is the right one? The one who entered from the right or the one who entered from the left? Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar, the state intellectual counsellors, do not know what to recommend. However, since the nation cannot be expected to accept two prophets, they advise the dictator to have one of them decapitated by the official servant… Watzlaff lives in the ›land of restraint‹. When he crosses the sea he suffers shipwreck. A good opportunity for Watzlaff to flee to the ›land of freedom‹. His alter ego, in the figure of a double expresses some last doubts - but Watzlaff, unmoved, lets him drown in the sea. Now there is nothing more to prevent him from becoming rich, powerful and happy, or so Watzlaff thinks. However, it becomes quickly apparent that it is not so simple to find one's way in the beautiful, new world.