Name: Cassandra – OR SONGS OF THE CANARIES
Start: 2026-05-05T17:30:00.000000+00:00
End: 2026-05-05+00:00
Location: Maxim Gorki Theater

Brasch - Das Alte geht nicht und das Neue auch nicht

Theatre

»You write your reality, you write your city, you take its measure for yourself and create it by populating it with characters.« Thomas Brasch. Sakko and Oi have time – too much time, and they spend it in the fantasies of other lived realities. In Mercedes... moreabout: Brasch - Das Alte geht nicht und das Neue auch nicht

Date:: Thursday, 23/April/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

ZEKAMERONE

Education & Lectures
Seminare/Workshops/Führungen

On 5 February 2023, the Gorki hosted a book presentation of Zekamerone, announcing it with »Maxim Znak, a brilliant lawyer and prominent member of the Belarusian opposition, was arrested in autumn 2020 and sentenced to ten years in prison in September... moreabout: ZEKAMERONE

Date:: Saturday, 25/April/2026 16:00
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Zukunftsmusik

Theatre

A Soviet kommunalka, a communal apartment, somewhere in Siberia. Moscow is far, far away. The year is 1985, the year when everything will change. Four women – greatgrandmother, grandmother, mother and daughter – live side by side with an engineer, a married... moreabout: Zukunftsmusik

Date:: Monday, 27/April/2026 19:30 (3 more dates)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Songs from the last years

Concerts

And we bid farewell with a record and a release concert – and of course, one last lavish party. Playing to a theatre emptied of seats, a big band – composed of all the singers the theatre still has to offer – presents a selection of the more-than-500... moreabout: Songs from the last years

Date:: Friday, 12/June/2026 20:00 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Cassandra

Show

»Cassandra syndrome, the experience of having one's legitimate concerns disbelieved and rejected, leading to psychological distress and suffering, seems to me a shared experience and a condition of our time. Every day, entire communities are confronted... moreabout: Cassandra

Date:: Tuesday, 05/May/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Berlin Karl-Marx-Platz

Theatre

Berlin, the early 90s. The Wall has fallen, the rules are unclear, everything’s moving at a rapid pace. Nobody knows what comes next. moreabout: Berlin Karl-Marx-Platz

Date:: Wednesday, 13/May/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Ellbogen

Theatre

»I wanted the things that everyone else had ... But I never got them. It was always impossible. It couldn’t be done, for whatever reason. ... A life of my own, you know? But impossible, these are totally normal things, but for me they’re completely out... moreabout: Ellbogen

Date:: Thursday, 07/May/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

East Side Story – A German Jewsical

Theatre

A city in ruins, two and a half Jewish sisters back in their former homeland to see if living here is possible, a father with many thoughts and plans and a mother who makes them happen, past and future love affairs, two new systems full of alleged temptations,... moreabout: East Side Story – A German Jewsical

Date:: Saturday, 09/May/2026 19:30 (2 more dates)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Carmen

Theatre

»The Romani community has a toxic relationship with Carmen: one of our few icons to have endured throughout the centuries, she fulfills every stereotype that has ever circulated about us. She is violent, rowdy, untamed, hot-blooded, passionate, thieving,... moreabout: Carmen

Date:: Saturday, 16/May/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
Venue:: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address:: Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Androgynous. Portrait of a Naked Dancer.

Theatre

»Anita Berber lived in times of uncertainty, just before the rise of the Nazi regime.I live in times of uncertainty, just before…I don’t know what. One hundred years ago, Anita died in a hospital in Kreuzberg. She was only 29.Today, I’m 31 and I’m not... moreabout: Androgynous. Portrait of a Naked Dancer.