Current language: English

Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

Date details

Book tickets for this date

Order online

Map

A visual map representation follows.Skip map

Show on map

End of map.

Public transportation

1 more date

Part of:

Saint Joan of the Stockyards (Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe)

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

  • Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe

    © Birgit Hupfeld

Chicago 1930: the cattle market is controlled by Mauler, the "meat king", the factories are closed. Johanna Dark wants to help the hungry workers, she wants to know who’s to blame for their misery. In her three visits "to the depths", she meets Mauler and believes she can convert him to humanity. At first, he plans to open the factories again, give the workers wages and bread again. But Johanna has been misled. The cold, the poverty and the hunger of the workers – Mauler is willing to accept all this when he sees a chance to blackmail the other meat factory owners. Johanna realises that only "violence helps where violence rules"! But her voice can no longer be heard, it is now drowned out by the songs of the capitalists, in which they declare her a martyr now that she has failed, declare her their "Saint Joan of the Stockyards". Bertolt Brecht wrote the play between 1929 and 1931, in the midst of the global economic crisis and the mass unemployment that resulted from it. It is one of a series of plays and fragments, in which Brecht examines financial speculation with essential goods. The two characters at the centre of the play bound in a Faustian pact, Johanna and Mauler, are played by women, Kathleen Morgeneyer and Stefanie Reinsperger, in this production directed by the Czech director Dušan David Pařízek.

Artists/Collaborators: Von Bertolt Brecht (Autor/in), Kathleen Morgeneyer (Johanna Dark), Stefanie Reinsperger (Mauler), Marc Oliver Schulze (Cridle), Amelie Willberg (Lennox, Gloomb, Paula Snyder, Zeitungsleute), Nina Bruns (Frau Luckerniddle, Martha), Dušan David Pařízek, Kamila Polívková, Peter Fasching, Hans Fründt, Karolin Trachte

Runtime: Tue, 02/06/2026 to Wed, 03/06/2026

Alternative events

© Quelle: Reservix-System

undlenaundlenaundleonceundlena

Ich muss mal raus, also so richtig! Kommst du mit? Zwischen dem Kampf gegen das Patriarchat und der Ohnmacht über das Weltgeschehen zieht es sowohl Lena als auch Leonce nach draußen in die Natur, an den Grunewaldsee. Doch was ist das für ein Ort, der... moreabout: undlenaundlenaundleonceundlena

Next date:
P14 Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Date:
Wednesday, 03/June/2026 20:00
Venue:
Jagdschloss Grunewald - Wasserterrasse
Address:
Hüttenweg 100, 14193 Berlin-Zehlendorf
Price:
from €9.40
Order online

Show more events in the category "Theater"…

The help page for the event calendar answers common questions.. Information about coperations and imprint can be found on our page about partners and terms and conditions.

Zum Seitenanfang