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Die Blechtrommel

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Date Wednesday, 08/July/2026 19:30 bis 21:20
Venue Berliner Ensemble - Großes Haus
Address Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
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The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel)

Oskar Matzerath has barely been born when he recognises the world to be a universal disaster – and rejects it entirely. Only the tin drum promised to him by his mother offers him an acceptable perspective for survival.

Die Blechtrommel
© Lukáš Horký/Flora Theatre Festival
Die Blechtrommel
© Ondřej Hrušk/Flora Theatre Festival
Die Blechtrommel
© Birgit Hupfeld
Die Blechtrommel
© Birgit Hupfeld
Die Blechtrommel
© Lukáš Horký/Flora Theatre Festival

Because the world he is tossed into, 1924 Danzig, is the dawn of the National Socialist regime. A world that provides scant opportunities for a growing boy to thrive. Only when his mother promises to give him a tin drum, an acceptable prospect for survival unfolds: the life of a drummer, the grotesque existence of an artist with all its ambivalence of motivation and consequences. And so, on his third birthday, Oskar decides to reject this world, to stop growing and to become an observer, a drummer. From his frog’s eye view, he describes the emergence of fascist thought and action, reports on adultery and Pogrom Night, links private stories with the history of the Third Reich. He is a witness and an outsider, a prosecutor and a participant in a world where a rupture in civilisation like the Holocaust is possible, and thus he poses the question of personal responsibility in an utterly dark world.

All his life, Günter Grass felt responsible for the horrors committed in the name of Germany. “Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum)” is an attempt to render transparent the mechanisms of his own seduction by nationalist and fascist ideologies and to sound a drum of dissent. Regardless of all controversy surrounding both the novel and its author, Nobel Prize laureate Günter Grass, the text is still regarded as a milestone of German post-war literature today. Director Oliver Reese tells the story of the eternal drummer in a version tailored entirely to the protagonist’s point of view.

A production by Schauspiel Frankfurt

Performance of the "The Tin Drum" with English surtitles on May 1, 2023. The box office staff will be happy to tell you from which seats you will have a good sight-line to the surtitles. For the best view of both stage and surtitles, we recommend seats in the stalls (Parkett) from row 11, or in the balconies (1. Rang, 2. Rang). Seats in the side boxes have a partially obstructed view.

Artists/Collaborators: von Günter Grass (Autor/in), Nico Holonics (Oskar Matzerath), Oliver Reese, Daniel Wollenzin, Laura Krack, Jörg Gollasch, Steffen Heinke, Sibylle Baschung

Runtime: Mon, 14/07/2025 to Wed, 08/07/2026

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