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16 events
© Katrin Ribbe, 2026
Salome, the daughter of Queen Herodias, is growing up in the palace of her stepfather Herod. During a lavish celebration, he keeps trying to proposition her. Salome has had to both entertain and fend off such advances since childhood. However, something... moreabout: Salome
© Nurith Wagner-Strauss, 2025
In »The Seer«, Ursina Lardi plays a war photographer who travels to conflict areas around the world in search of images of dread. She always seems one step ahead of the suffering and horror, and at the same time untouchable. But then she is forced to... moreabout: Die Seherin (The Seer)
© Arno Declair
Richard is hideous. Born prematurely, he is a deformed, hobbling, hunchbacked cripple who, on the battlefields of the Wars of the Roses – which flared up after the death of Henry V – served his family and above all his brother, Edward, well. Now Edward... moreabout: Richard III
© Philip Frowein, 2025
»Everyone should have fun with my image« (Paris Hilton) moreabout: Call me Paris
© Gianmarco Bresadola, 2025
Hannah Zabrisky doesn’t want to go on stage. She no longer wants to perform the play she’s been rehearsing for weeks. She doesn’t want to be confronted with her own loneliness, her physical decay, her fear of growing older: she is a woman without any... moreabout: Hannah Zabrisky tritt nicht auf
© Gianmarco Bresadola, 2026
Harpagon is a miser who has been widowed for many years. His two adult children, Elise and Cléante, suffer from their father’s parsimony: To buy clothes, they either have to gamble for money or borrow some. Both siblings are in love: Elise adores Valère,... moreabout: The Miser
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Falk Richter’s latest play for the ensemble of the Schaubühne ventures to take stock of the present in a series of fragmented scenes, variations and possible realities. Even the setting is uncertain: is all this an unsettling nightmare? Are we on a film... moreabout: Bad Kingdom
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It is not only individuals but also groups that can feel belittled and disregarded. Regions, social groups or entire populations develop perceptions of the place they occupy in society – and the place they deserve. In Germany, these issues continue to... moreabout: Streit ums Politische »The Offended Society«
© Gianmarco Bresadola, 2026
»Bluets« starts with a love that has been lost, caring for a friend who has met with an accident and an obsession with the colour blue. The unnamed main character of the text has been left by the »prince of blue«. Her broken heart is juxtaposed by the... moreabout: Bluets
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A recording studio in California, the 1970s. The five members of the band gather to record their new album. Their ambition to build upon the success of their last record – and, ideally, to surpass it – is running high. However, working in the studio presents... moreabout: Stereophonic
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An apartment block, two courtyards, a chestnut tree – and a web of lives that run side by side, intersect, and sometimes miss each other. There’s Maja, who lives in the rear building and, caught between a writer’s block, her best friend’s complicated... moreabout: Book Launch: »Wand an Wand«
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The year is 1536. Three friends, Anna, Mariella and Jane, meet in a field in Essex. Here, they can talk undisturbed: about Anna and her many male admirers; about Mariella and how she hates her job as a midwife; about Jane’s existence as an obedient daughter... moreabout: 1536
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Chris has moved into his dead brother Adam’s house. Built by their father after the war, the place is currently being renovated: the old windows have been replaced with large panoramic ones, walls have been torn down and the trees in the garden are due... moreabout: Antigone. Der Abschied
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With his work, which can be interpreted as a rebellion against the power of norms and normality, Michel Foucault became oneof the most important thinkers of our time. Didier Eribon is one of Foucault’s most intimately familiar scholars; the two were bound... moreabout: Michel Foucault. A Biography. Expanded new edition
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What does radical humanism mean? Are there limits to empathy for others? What obligations does the memory of history impose on us? Are there limits to the duty to speak out in the name of human rights? Or must nothing prevent us from perceiving others... moreabout: What is a person worth?
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