Author: Sandra Wolf

CALL ME PARIS by Yana Eva Thönnes
a co-production of Schaubühne Berlin and Biennale di Venezia – 53. International Theatre Festival

The world Premiere of CALL ME PARIS will take place at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale at the Biennale di Venezia on June 1, 2025.

CALL ME PARIS is about the traumatic memories of two doppelgängers from the noughties. The famous It girl Paris Hilton unwittingly becomes the star of a sex tape posted online by her ex-boyfriend, entitled “1 Night in Paris”, while in Bergisch Gladbach, a young girl nicknamed Paris finds herself in her own version of this video. To regain control over her image and ultimately over herself, Paris embarks on an eerie journey into the past. How did she become “Paris”? Where is the tape now? And if what we see is only a copy of the original, who is the girl on the screen?

Here you can find more information about the event in Venice.
Tickets for performances on June 1 and 2, 2025, at the Teatro Piccolo Arsenale in Venice.
Talk with Yana Thönnes and Nils Haarmann (dramaturg) on June 2, 2025, at 4 p.m.

CALL ME PARIS will start it’s run at the Schaubühne Berlin in fall 2025.

KISS KISS WOLF by lynn t musiol wins Best Short Film at the International Short Film Competition at the 28th Pink Apple 2025 Queer Film Festival in Zurich!

The jury said:
“A powerful and sensual intervention that weaves historical reality and queer utopia together in a fascinating way. The director takes us to a place that once stood for industrial production and patriarchal work structures—and transforms it into a laboratory of queer imagination. The result is a space of possibility where queer-lesbian perspectives are not only made visible, but celebrated. Resistant, lustful, and with a touch of glamour. The film won us over with its clever interplay of documentary and staged elements—and its stunning humor.
(https://pinkapple.ch/assets/Document/349/28PA_Laudatio_Kurzfilmwettbewerb.pdf)

DEATH IN PIECE – Video performance and opera
Concept/direction: Ayla Pierrot Arendt

From May 9 to 11, DEATH IN PEACE will be presented as a video installation with the original score by Georgian composers Ani Zakareishvili & Nika Pasuri as part of the donaufestival in Krems.
The video opera offers an immersive experience, both visually and sonically — raising the deeply ambiguous questions: Who owns peace? Who deserves security? To whom do our voices and bodies belong?

The Austrian premiere will take place on May 9 at 9 p.m.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE by Yael Ronen
Directed by Yael Ronen
Translation by Irina Szodruch
Schauspiel Cologne

The world premiere will take place on May 8, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. Schauspiel Cologne.

With the new artistic directorship of Kay Voges at Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will become part of the artistic team. As resident playwright and director, he will join the team around the head dramaturg, Alexander Kerlin, starting with the 2025/26 season.

Calle Fuhr was born in Düsseldorf in 1994. He was an assistant director at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, the Wiener Festwochen and the Volkstheater Vienna. He has been working as an author and director since 2017 at Theater Basel, Volkstheater Vienna and Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, among others.

Research theater and radio

Fuhr is considered one of the most renowned representatives of research theater. He regularly works with investigative media such as DOSSIER and CORRECTIV and has created works about real estate mogul René Benko, the fossil fuel companies LEAG and OMV, and the debt brake. Fuhr’s plays have been translated into several languages and invited to various festivals. His play Aufstieg und Fall des Herrn René Benko (The Rise and Fall of Mr. René Benko) by Volkstheater Vienna in cooperation with DOSSIER will be part of this year’s Radikal jung Festival in Munich.

He is also a regular guest at the Berliner Ensemble. The NDR wrote about his most recent work, Atlas, at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg: “We need theater like this. Wide awake, enlightening, sparkling with wisdom. Especially now.”

He also appears frequently on radio programs – including on Ö1, Deutschlandfunk and the BBC. He was invited to the Berlinale 2025 as part of the “Series Market” for his work on the series “Shit Happens”.

Theater Cologne

At Schauspiel Cologne, Calle Fuhr will continue his collaboration with CORRECTIV and take on responsibility for the focus area “Theater and Journalism”. As an integral part of the team, he will also build bridges to the city’s society and research innovative formats.

ELISABETH! by Mareike Fallwickl
Directed by: Fritzi Wartenberg
With Stefanie Reinsperger in the leading role
at Burgtheater Vienna

Together with author Mareike Fallwickl, Fritzi Wartenberg takes a multi-layered and feminist look at the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the Austrian superstar.

The world premiere will take place on April 11, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Burgtheater Vienna.
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QUEERinthia by Noam Brusilovsky
Director: Noam Brusilovsky
Assistance text & dramaturgy: Lotta Beckers

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA
A Lecture Performance by & with Yousef Sweid
Directed by: Isabella Sedlak

BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA is a plea for sharing unheard stories and an invitation to bear witness to the complex story of a life that cannot choose a simple side.

The world premiere will take place on April 5, 2025 at 8:30 p.m. at Studio Я / Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin.
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MAY LANDSCHAFTEN by Penda Diouf
Directed by: Miriam Ibrahim
German translation: Remsi Al Khalisi

Commissioned by Theater Münster

May Ayim is the starting point of this evening, an evening of remembrance: French playwright Penda Diouf writes about the Afro-German poet who moved and saved so many lives, but ended her own at an early age. Diouf writes about how Black history is lived and remembered in Germany and about how Black sisterhood connects across generations.
A personal and communal evening about a Black reality of life in Germany.

The world premiere takes place on April 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Theater Münster statt.
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EX by Marius von Mayenburg
Directed by: Marius von Mayenburg

Daniel and Sibylle, married, two children, both have a career, both have settled into their upper middle class life without love and full of reproaches and resentment against each other. The picture-book façade seems to crumble when Daniel comes home late again and receives a phone call from his ex-girlfriend Franziska. As Franziska appears at the door, the trio beginns a bitter game of power, truth and betrayal, at the end of which there are no winners.

The German premiere takes place on March 12, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Schaubühne Berlin.
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