is a Neue Sachlichkeit (or "New Objectivity") play by the German playwright Ernst Toller.

[1] The British playwright Mark Ravenhill based his Some Explicit Polaroids (1999) on Toller's play.

[2] Time: 1919 This piece takes place in many countries, eight years after the crushing of a people's uprising.

Time: 1927 According to theatre critic Eric Bentley’s book The Playwright as Thinker, when Erwin Piscator directed the premiere of Hoppla, We’re Alive!

in 1927 and Frau Meller, the mother in the play, said "There’s only one thing to do: either hang one’s self [sic] or change the world," the youthful audience burst spontaneously into the Internationale.