A recording features a woman who traveled to the Baltic Sea to help the whale with an Aboriginal chant to plug energetic holes.
The media reaction triggered a boom in whale and sealife-themed book sales, alongside sentimental and satirical songs.
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At the premiere, rock band Tulpe performed their hit Sprengt den Wal! (“Blow up the whale!”
), with a chorus of “Let it rain whale salami and cutlets.”
An AI-generated song that went viral on social media mixes populist resentment against experts. The actors perform it as a rock number.
The lyrics include: “While he is still breathing, they are already talking of what happens afterwards / of tests and numbers / as if he was only an empty body without a heart.”
A risky attempt to transport the whale back to the open sea on a water-filled barge was privately funded by two millionaires and cleared by authorities, despite expert advice that the animal was unlikely to survive.
The play restages a press conference where biologists proposing to let the whale die in peace were criticized by hangers-on as wanting to “murder” the animal.
One woman called a death in the bay undignified.
The rescue effort seemed driven by populist resentment against elites, reflecting political fractures in Germany.
In the play, an actor in a wetsuit rails against officials and calls for ordinary people to wake up while a large German flag is raised.
On May 14, nearly two weeks after the release, the whale was found dead near the island of Anholt in the Kattegat.
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The fallout over the estimated €2 million rescue mission continues.
