All You Can Eat. Variations of Devouring is a musical radio piece, composed and produced by the Hamburg multi-instrumentalist Jan Drees (*1974), based on a text by Ariane Koch. Drees is a musician and composer whose work often appears in the theater (Thalia Theater, Kampnagel, Altonaer Theater), silent film concerts (Metropolis, Symphony of the Big City, The Last Man) and musical readings. He moves between various fields such as jazz, experimental music, ambient music and art rock. Important influences for Drees are musicians such as Fred Frith and Heiner Goebbels, Bill Frisell and Ralph Towner, and finally Brian Eno and Robert Fripp.

The Swiss Ariane Koch is an author of novels, writer of texts in the theater sector and performance artist. In addition to Koch’s texts, All You Can Eat's speakers include Oda Thormeyer and Tim Porath from the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, as well as the songwriter Heinz Rudolf Kunze. The material is a “text buffet” (Ariane Koch) with the invitation to help yourself freely. There are several thematic strands that always ostensibly tell something different and never openly reveal their actual meaning. The radio play highlights the themes of excessive consumption and the devouring sea, as well as turbo-capitalism, selfish love and war - often disguised as cannibalism. The idea for the radio play came about after a reading in Hamburg staged by Chiara Liotine.