Edith Schröder Opens a Food Truck in Berlin’s Mitte

Neukölln must be strong: Edith Schröder, for decades a fixture in the neighborhood as a state-supported precarity icon, takes on a new job. The motive is an inheritance — namely a street-food cart in the chic area of Mitte. There, the Futschiqueen senses a fresh business model: if downtown can command princely prices for crushed avocado on toast, surely there’s money to be made with meat patties, bratwurst, and warm beer.

For the venture, Edith enlists her friends: pub owner Jutta and local “neighborhood tramp” Biggy are recruited to help feed the urban crowd with expired sausages, limp fries, and Berlin bluntness. Clad in a cat-pattern shirt, leopard leggings, and a shoulder-padded blouse, the three ladies square off against soy-latte hipsters, foodie influencers, and misplaced parliamentarians who have little connection to Neukölln’s everyday life.

Sausage Meets the Downtown Milieu

Between gluten-free lentil balls and a sausage-sale outpost, the milieus collide. Helicopter parents complain about grease odor and “aesthetic harassment,” right-wing politicians demand brown gravy instead of curry sauce, and Biggy stirs up further trouble with a “Happy Hour with a Happy Ending.” When a widow also asserts a claim to the inheritance, Edith’s snack venture teeters on the edge of collapse.

With “Three Dragons from the Grill,” the Ades Zabel Company harkens back to its early Super-8 films, created as a parody of the similarly named SFB series. At the same time, the new Neuköllnical continues the company’s contemporary stage work as a modern folk theater on Mehringdamm.

“Three Dragons from the Grill” featuring Ades Zabel, Biggy van Blond, and Bob Schneider runs from July 1 to September 25, 2026 at the BKA-Theater, Mehringdamm 34, Berlin-Kreuzberg. Tickets are available starting at 29 euros. (dd/pm)