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Date details
- Date Monday, 09/November/2026 10:00 bis 12:10 ( 6 more dates )
- Venue Grips Theater
- Address Altonaer Straße 22, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Public transportation
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Train (S-Bahn)
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S Bellevue
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Tiergarten
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Bellevue
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Underground
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U Hansaplatz
- U9
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U Hansaplatz
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Bus
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U Hansaplatz
- 106
- N26
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Bachstr. (U Hansaplatz)
- S7
- N9
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Lessingbrücke
- S7
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Solinger Str.
- 106
- N26
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Großer Stern
- 106
- N26
- 100
- 187
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S Tiergarten
- S7
- N9
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Kleiner Tiergarten
- 187
- 245
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U Turmstr.
- 245
- 187
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Alt-Moabit/Rathaus Tiergarten
- 245
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U Hansaplatz
Part of:
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In einer GRIPS-Fassung und Übersetzung von Jochen Strauch nach Motiven des Romans „Die Welle“ von Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser)
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“So you think that a dictatorship would no longer be possible in Germany?” – “Definitely not! We are far too enlightened for that.”
A history teacher is working on the subject of fascism. The students do not understand why the German majority observed the crimes of the National Socialists in silence and without doing anything. She starts a simple experiment by uniting the class with exercises in discipline and hierarchical behaviour to create a stronger bond, creating a sense of community in the group through symbols and slogans. The temptation to be seduced by fascist ideas first gains the upper hand in a playful way, then more and more radically. The experiment gets out of hand.
Today the world is enlightened and safe. Or is it? Populism, xenophobia, autocracies, Meloni, Putin and movements like the Identitarians or the Rassemblement National are stirring up fear all over Europe under the guise of great threats and dangers, which is presented in new words with familiar codes.
The real experiment “The third Wave” by the Californian high school teacher Ron Jones, which became school reading in 1981 as the globally successful novel “The Wave” by Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser), raises old questions under the current political circumstances: What makes one group feel superior to another? When does cohesion in a group become the exclusion of others? Who is fighting for what and who is observing? In the end, does it just take a correspondingly large number of silent spectators to endanger democracy?
Content note: racism
Performing rights "#diewelle2020": Rowohlt Theater Verlag
Premiere: 15.01.2020
A history teacher is working on the subject of fascism. The students do not understand why the German majority observed the crimes of the National Socialists in silence and without doing anything. She starts a simple experiment by uniting the class with exercises in discipline and hierarchical behaviour to create a stronger bond, creating a sense of community in the group through symbols and slogans. The temptation to be seduced by fascist ideas first gains the upper hand in a playful way, then more and more radically. The experiment gets out of hand.
Today the world is enlightened and safe. Or is it? Populism, xenophobia, autocracies, Meloni, Putin and movements like the Identitarians or the Rassemblement National are stirring up fear all over Europe under the guise of great threats and dangers, which is presented in new words with familiar codes.
The real experiment “The third Wave” by the Californian high school teacher Ron Jones, which became school reading in 1981 as the globally successful novel “The Wave” by Morton Rhue (Todd Strasser), raises old questions under the current political circumstances: What makes one group feel superior to another? When does cohesion in a group become the exclusion of others? Who is fighting for what and who is observing? In the end, does it just take a correspondingly large number of silent spectators to endanger democracy?
Content note: racism
Performing rights "#diewelle2020": Rowohlt Theater Verlag
Premiere: 15.01.2020
Artists/Collaborators: Katja Hiller (Berit Rosenberg), Regine Seidler (Ellen Rosenberg), Yana Lova (Laura Sanders), Johanna Meinhard (Laura Sanders), Christian Giese (Paul Sanders), Jens Mondalski (Paul Sanders), Marius Lamprecht (Robert Landmann), Daniel Pohlen (David Kater), Nils Thalmann (David Kater), Eike N.A. Onyambu (Benjamin Börne), Marcel Herrnsdorf (Benjamin Börne), Esther Agricola (Anna Kempowski), Lisa Klabunde (Alexandra Staiger), Öz Kaveller (Musikerin), Thilo Brandt (Musiker), Jochen Strauch (Regie), Christin Treunert (Bühne & Kostüm), David Schulz (Video), Öz Kaveller (Komposition & Sounddesign), Nadja Raszewski (Choreografie-Coach), Tobias Diekmann (Dramaturgie), Bettina Koch (Musikalische Einstudierung), Nora Hoch (Theaterpädagogik), Martin Krappmann (Abendspielleitung & Regieassistenz), Sophia Blume (Regieassistenz)
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- Date:
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16GB: Tischtennispolitik - Theater an der Parkaue
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- Date:
- Monday, 09/November/2026 10:00 (3 more dates)
- Venue:
- Theater an der Parkaue - Bühne 3
- Address:
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- Price:
- from €19.00
© Moritz Haase
The Captain of Koepenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
"There's no luck in it, and no bad luck in it either. It's pure injustice, plain and simple! There's more injustice in this world, lovely, full-blown injustice. No, they've been dragging me around for too long, they've woken me up now, there'll be no... moreabout: The Captain of Koepenick (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick)
- Next date:
- Theatertag: Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
- Date:
- Monday, 09/November/2026 19:30 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Berliner Ensemble - Großes Haus
- Address:
- Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price:
- from €10.13
© Hans-Jürgen Hannemann
Chaos Royal: Improtania – das Spiel um die Krone
Chaos Royal lässt Woche für Woche eine einzigartige Theatershow unmittelbar vor den Augen des Publikums entstehen, die dann so nie wieder stattfinden wird. moreabout: Chaos Royal: Improtania – das Spiel um die Krone
- Next date:
- Chaos Royal: Improtania - das Spiel um die Krone
- Date:
- Monday, 09/November/2026 20:00 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- BKA Theater
- Address:
- Mehringdamm 34, 10961 Berlin-Kreuzberg
- Price:
- from €27.90
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Amigues Adios
She was so attractive! Many felt irresistibly drawn to her — sometimes to their ruin, sometimes to their own liberation. They came out of curiosity, for the city held a promise. Some sought refuge here from the violence of patriarchal societies, because... moreabout: Amigues Adios
- Date:
- Monday, 09/November/2026 20:00 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Ballhaus Naunynstraße
- Address:
- Naunynstraße 27, 10997 Berlin-Kreuzberg
- Price:
- from €15.40
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