Tobias Aeschbacher in Erlangen: Live audio play from The Last One Turns Off the Light

An evening between graphic novel, live audio play and dark humor

With The Last One Turns Off the Light, the Schauspiel Erlangen brings an award-winning graphic novel as a live audio play to the stage at the Theater in der Garage. The production is created in cooperation with the International Comic Salon Erlangen; the literary source comes from Tobias Aeschbacher, whose debut was awarded the Max-und-Moritz Prize for best German-language comic debut in 2024. ([ratsinfo.erlangen.de](https://ratsinfo.erlangen.de/vo0050.asp?__kvonr=2140818&utm_source=openai))

When gangster film meets linguistic art

Aeschbacher's material unfolds a dark comedy with a Tarantino vibe, precise character depiction, and a sense of absurd escalation. The story about small-time criminals, a stolen urn, a red-striped cat, and an apartment building as the setting for moral downfall relies on speed, rhythm, and scenic condensation. This is exactly where the live audio play derives its tension: from dialogues, sound, perspective shifts, and a narrative stance that never separates the grotesque from the human. ([helvetiq.com](https://helvetiq.com/ch_en/der-letzte-loscht-das-licht-paperback?utm_source=openai))

An intimate place for great literature on a small stage

The Theater in der Garage is known as a studio stage with an intimate atmosphere, flexible seating, and around 60 seats. The venue is located at Theaterstraße 5 in Erlangen; visitors will find a concentrated theater experience that creates closeness between the ensemble and the audience, which is particularly attractive for a literary live format. ([visit-erlangen.de](https://www.visit-erlangen.de/poi/theater_in_der_garage-33786/?utm_source=openai))

Author, work, and awards

Tobias Aeschbacher lives and works in Biel/Bienne, works as a comic artist, illustrator, and graphic designer, and published his first graphic novel title with The Last One Turns Off the Light. The work has received multiple awards, including the Max-und-Moritz Prize 2024, the Prix Delémont’BD, and the Literature Prize of the Canton of Bern. The book content combines dark humor, violence, melancholy, and a pointed reflection on finitude and neighborhood. ([delemontbd.ch](https://www.delemontbd.ch/fr/Festival/Auteur-e-s/Aeschbacher-Tobias-1989-Suisse.html?utm_source=openai))

Conclusion: a literary evening with resonance

Those who want to experience literature not only through reading, but in the space itself, will encounter an author in an indirect but all the more intense form: as sound, scene, and mood. The Last One Turns Off the Light promises an evening full of linguistic art, tension, and dark comedy. This live audio play deserves to be on the list of events that one not only attends but remembers. ([regioactive.de](https://www.regioactive.de/theater/der-letzte-loescht-das-licht-ua-live-hoerspiel-nach-graphic-novel-von-tobias-aeschbacher-erlangen-theater-in-garage-2026-06-23-tickets-v69h0s3X2Z?utm_source=openai))

Official channels of Tobias Aeschbacher:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tobicomic/
• Facebook: No official profile found
• Website: https://thisistobi.ch/
• Publisher: https://helvetiq.com/de/der-letzte-loscht-das-licht-paperback

Sources:

• Schauspiel Erlangen - Theater in der Garage
• Visit Erlangen - Theater in der Garage
• City of Erlangen - Schauspiel Erlangen Season 2025/2026
• Regioactive - The Last One Turns Off the Light (UA)
• thisistobi.ch - The Last One Turns Off the Light | We're All Going to Die
• Helvetiq - The Last One Turns Off the Light