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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).

WIR TÖTEN STELLA (KILLING STELLA)

Based on the novella by Marlen Haushofer
In a theatrical adaptation by Jakab Tarnóczi
Director: Jakab Tarnóczi

Following his staging of the Austrian premiere of Rutherford & Sohn, for which he was nominated for the Nestroy Prize in 2025, Jakab Tarnóczi is staging his second work at the Schauspielhaus Graz with his adaptation of the novella Wir töten Stella (Killing Stella).

The premiere will take place on February 6, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schauspielhaus Graz.

VERRÄTER (TRAITORS) by Lisa Wentz

Jo is a teenager, she lives with her family in a Tyrolean village and has to see the pastor regularly. He appeals to her conscience, wants to lead her back to the right path – all because Jo fell in love with a young woman last summer leaving her mother deeply worried. The whole story is a scandal, even a sin in the narrow provincial mindset. Will Jo be able to emancipate herself in her quest for freedom and happiness?

The world premiere takes place on February 2, 2026, at 8 p.m. at the studio of Landestheater Linz.

FAKE JEWS

Written and directed by Noam Brusilovsky

In a present where one’s own identity is becoming increasingly important for the visibility and relevance of a statement, certain biographies are becoming a privilege: So is appropriating Jewish identity a career advantage? A selling point? Or is it rather the case that statements of this kind are not checked too closely when they are so historically sensitive? Noam Brusilovsky explores these questions in a monologue project and sheds light on the blind spots in German remembrance culture in an increasingly polarized present.

The world premiere will take place on January 29, 2026, at 8 p.m. in the Box at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

Iconic
Sisi, Lady Di und die Welfinnen

featuring texts by Mareike Fallwickl, lynn t musiol, and Jacinta Nandi

In her production, director Jorinde Dröse focuses on royalty from the past centuries, and lynn t musiol has written a text about one of these iconic royal women.

The world premiere will take place on January 23, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. at the Schauspielhaus of the Niedersächsisches Staatstheater in Hannover.

BLUTBUCH by Kim de l’Horizon

Director and Stage Adaptation: Anna Stiepani

Anna Stiepani—voted Best Young Director of the Year 2024/25 in the critics’ poll by Theater heute—brings her adaptation of Kim de l’Horizon’s novel, winner of the German and Swiss Book Prize, to the stage.

 

The premiere will take place on January 17, 2026, at 7:30 p.m. in the Studio of the Vereinigte Bühnen Bozen.

MUNDTOT von Miriam Unterthiner

Director: Christiane Pohle
Stage and Costume Design: Anton von Bredow

Anton Bredow is designing the stage and costumes for the world premiere of Miriam Unterthiner’s play, which won the Hans Gratzer Prize in 2025 and addresses the abuse of power and sexual violence in competitive sports.

The world premiere will take place on January 16, 2026, at 8 p.m. at the Schauspielhaus Wien.

EGAL by Marius von Mayenburg

Directed by Marius von Mayenburg

Simone has built a career for herself. Her partner Erik looks after the children and gets by with editing and translation work. Erik imagines that he is failing on all levels. Simone also feels suffocated. Both bitterly realize that equality and professional success combined with family life are empty promises of capitalism. A gift and a ringing cell phone suddenly turn everything upside down: What is important to them and what doesn’t matter?

The German premiere will take place on January 8, 2025, at 8 p.m. at Ku’damm 156 (Schaubühne Berlin).