Author: Sandra Wolf

SIRENS CALL
Directed and Written by: Miri Ian Gossing & Lina Sieckmann

DE, NL | 2025
121′
filmfaust in co-produktion with Schalten und Walten, Elbe Stevens Films (NL) and ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel
World premiere at the Berlinale Forum 2025

A planet on the brink of drying out: a siren inhabiting a human body roams through a post‑modern United States, searching for identity and belonging. Sirens Call—a blend of sci‑fi, road‑movie and documentary—offers a vivid glimpse into queer subculture and body politics.

“Politically and artistically radikal. There is nothing quite like it.” – VARIETY

“The best thing a film about non-normative identities can do.” – CINEUROPA

 

SIRENS CALL hits theaters on April 30, 2026!
The premiere will take place at the Moviemento cinema in Berlin in the presence of the directors.

 

 

DER IDIOT (The Idiot)

loosely based on Dostoevsky
Direction and Stage adaptation: Martina Gredler

For her second production at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater, Martina Gredler has once again taken on a monumental classic: Dostoyevsky’s “The Idiot”—set within the confines of a Roy Andersson-esque setting—encounters here, above all, a powerful Nastassja, embarrassing rivals, and plenty of champagne.

The premiere taks place on April 30, 2026, at 8:30 p.m. at the Bronski & Grünberg Theater in Vienna.

Additional Performance Dates:
May 10, 12, 20 and 22, 2026
June 2, 3, 16 and 17, 2026

DIE ALLERLETZTEN

Written and directed by Marco Damghani
Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

REQUIEM

Text & Inszenierung: Jakab Tarnóczi

REQUIEM is a multigenerational Hungarian family story centered around women: a larger-than-life grandmother, her daughter and daughter-in-law with whom she has a strained bond, and the granddaughter returning home from abroad. We gain insight into three periods of the family’s and their community’s life, defined by the motifs of birth and death.
The production is a joint experiment by Jakab Tarnóczi and his creative team on how theatre can speak about a nation’s state of mind, its nerves, its micro-communities – and whether it is still possible to believe in some kind of shared future.

The World Premiere takes place on April 25, 2026, at Katona Jósef Theater in Budapest.

EINE RUNDE SACHE (AND NOTHING EVER ENDS) based on the novel by Tomer Gardi
Stage adaption and Direction: Noam Brusilovsky

26.04.2026 at 8:30 p.m. at Alter Saal, Theater Heidelberg

World Premiere: September 2025, Schauspiel Stuttgart
“Lively, profound, and utterly absurd” / “A tale of mischief about the experience of being an outsider, which tackles serious themes with audacity and empathy.” – Südwest Presse
“Noam Brusilovsky’s production is every bit as witty as Gardi’s five-person picaresque play and runs like clockwork, ….”– Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung

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ELISABETH! by Mareike Fallwickl
Direction: Fritzi Wartenberg

01.05.2026 at 8:30 p.m. at Marguerre-Saal, Theater Heidelberg

World Premiere: April 2025, Burgtheater Vienna
“An evening that will leave no one unmoved.” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“The script is outstanding. Stefanie Reinsperger and the directing team’s interpretation is brilliant. Cheers, ovations, and no end in sight.” – DrehPunktKultur

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA

by Yousef Sweid and Isabella Sedlak
with Yousef Sweid
directed by Isabella Sedlak
Composition & Sound Design: Thomas Moked Blum
Produced by Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

Isabella Sedlak and Yousef Sweid are coming to London with their internationally acclaimed production BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA, with performances at the Royal Court Theatre from April 20 to May 9!
Palestinian-Israeli actor Yousef Sweid dives into the chaos of identity, truth, and family life in Between The River And The Sea. Raised as a Christian-Arab kid in Haifa, now raising two Jewish-Arab kids in Berlin, he unpacks his in-between-ness – where contradictions clash and slogans fail. With biting humour and raw honesty, Sweid weaves personal stories, political reflection, and absurd everyday moments into a sharp, unflinching solo performance.

The London premiere will take place on April 20, 2026 at 7 p.m. at the Royal Court Theatre (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs).

CASSANDRA
OR SONGS OF THE CANARIES

Concept & Direction: Marta Górnicka
Libretto: Marta Górnicka & Ensemble
Costume Design: Pola Kardum

Pola Kardum designed the costumes for Marta Górnicka’s chorus production at the Maxim Gorki Theater, who, together with a group of people spanning different generations, languages, abilities, and life experiences, sets out in search of the true Cassandras of our time. Voices that go unheard. Voices that are attacked. Voices without a lobby.

The world premiere will take place on April 18, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

MOSKITOS (Mosquitoes)

by Lucy Kirkwood
German translation by Corinna Brocher
Directed by Anna Stiepani

Anna Stiepani, who has worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, and the Staatstheater in Nuremberg, is directing for the first time at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe. This well-made play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood focuses on those who are excluded from the social order. The plot revolves around CERN, the famous international research facility, for which KIT’s Institute for Experimental Particle Physics also conducts research.

The premiere takes place on April 17, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at Badischen Staatstheater Karlsruhe (Kleines Haus) statt.

BURN, BABY, BURN!

by Yael Ronen
German translation by Irina Szodruch
Directed by Yael Ronen

Yael Ronens new play spans a vibrant arc from a fictional comic about fire goddesses all the way back to antiquity, to ancient Rome and Emperor Nero, perhaps history’s most famous arsonist. These ancient images become a sparkling mirror of the present: they reflect crises, displays of power, and humanity’s age-old fascination with fire, destruction, and renewal. With sharp wit, great enthusiasm, and songs reimagined live, a polyphonic theatrical evening emerges that moves between myth and the present, bitter comedy and tender melancholy. An evening about what burns—and what can arise from it.

Die world premiere takes place on April 17, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Hannover.

DIE QUELLE (THE SOURCE)

Directed and written by Calle Fuhr  | In cooperation with DOSSIER

A production of Theater am Werk
In cooperation with DOSSIER and Schauspielhaus Wien

The BAWAG scandal or the Ibiza affair: Behind these scandals are people who provided journalists with sensitive information. In collaboration with DOSSIER, director Calle Fuhr now places one of these sources at the center of his play.
Over the course of several months, director and writer Calle Fuhr held discussions with journalists from Austria and Germany to better understand the mechanisms of so-called whistleblowing. In the process, he also managed to make personal contact with some of the sources. The resulting story is, of course, fictional—though full of allusions to real cases.

The world premiere takes place on April 16, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. at Theater am Werk im Kabelwerk.