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.
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).
Prague dog dealer Švejk, officially ‘idiotic’ but unofficially brilliant, is thrown into the turmoil of the First World War – and stumbles through a system of authority and abuse of power with disarming naivety. A classic of absurd humour meets the expressive puppet theatre of the Schubert Theatre: with The Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk, director Martina Gredler brings one of the most biting and at the same time funniest novels of the 20th century on stage.
The premiere will take place on 18 December 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Schubert Theatre Vienna.
lynn t musiol directs the monologue play Sons, which portrays a family threatened with breaking apart due to the social and political tensions of our time. The focus is on Cathy, a pharmacist from a low-income background who lives with her family in a small French town. In conservative Catholic circles, she finds connections to the wealthy social class, where it seems natural to vote for right-wing conservatives. Her commitment to opposing social change—such as marriage for all—gives her a new sense of purpose, while she increasingly drifts toward right-wing thinking. But her new commitment causes her to lose sight of her family’s well-being. Her sons develop in opposite directions: one becomes radicalized and shows right-wing extremist tendencies, while the other feels compelled to hide his homosexuality from society and his family. Only when the family breaks apart does Cathy realize the suffering she has caused.
The premiere will take place on December 13, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. at Schlosstheater Moers (Kapelle).
An unexpected text message from her former teacher Ute throws Ari off balance. More than ten years ago, the two had a close relationship that Ari still cannot shake off. Now, in her late twenties, she begins to process her memories among her friends and in conversations with Ute, allowing herself to ask a serious question: Was what happened to me back then abuse? Directed by Claus Nicolai Six.
The premiere will take place on 13 December 2025 at 8 p.m. in the Vestibül.
Butcher Oskar loves Marianne and wants to marry her. But even at the engagement party, disaster strikes: Marianne falls head over heels in love with the rogue Alfred, breaking up with Oskar and her old life. It quickly becomes clear that her hopes for a new, grand and, above all, completely different world will not stand up to reality. The initially exciting relationship is followed by social decline. Erich Kästner called his fellow writer’s work ‘a Viennese folk play against the Viennese folk play’.
The premiere will take place on 12 December 2025 at 7.30 p.m. at the Volkstheater Wien.
Oscar Wilde’s classic about the (im)mortality of beauty and hidden desires is supplemented and continued with texts by playwright Marcus Peter Tesch, who traces the history of bodies and body images in his writing and brings them into the present. Ran Chai Bar-zvi’s visually powerful productions approach even existential subjects with great lightness, without trivialising their serious core. With ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Ran Chai Bar-zvi celebrates his debut at Schauspiel Frankfurt.
The premiere will take place on 12 December 2025 at 8 p.m. in the Kammerspiele at Schauspiel Frankfurt.
With the decline of the population, a traditional way of life is coming to an end in a remote Bulgarian village: the camera follows the last remaining residents from the perspective of domesticated animals. Did the neighbour punish her violent son and turn him into a donkey? Is the cat possessed by a vampire? The villagers’ affection for the animals contrasts with the matter-of-fact way in which they treat them. With great attention to detail and for her four-legged protagonists, Eliza Petkova succeeds in creating a fascinating and mysterious portrait of a village.
Written and directed by Yael Ronen
Translation and artistic collaboration: Irina Szodruch
Music: Yaniv Fridel and Ofer (OJ) Shabi
Jewish documentary filmmaker Jona Lubnik wants to shake up the complacency of his German fellow citizens with a provocative film. He has long avoided political issues, but now he feels compelled to act because he is convinced that the past must never be used as an excuse to remain silent about the present. His wife is a successful neurologist and fears that his film project could turn into a political scandal that would damage her career and the entire family.
In her latest play, Yael Ronen takes a sharp look at the mechanisms of (self-)sabotage and exposes them through comedy.
The premiere will take place on December 4, 2025, at 8 p.m. at the Schaubühne Berlin.