1.04.2023 Premiere: MEISTER RÖCKLE by les dramaturx at Theater Magdeburg

MEISTER ROECKLE
A fairy tale based on Karl Marx

After bitter fields, it is now les dramaturx‘ (Lynn Takeo Musiol and Christian Tschirner) second production at the Theater Magdeburg. Visitors can expect a political fairy tale about Karl Marx’s preliminary studies for Capital, retold and performed by the two authors.

Premiere: 1 April 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & information under this link (external)

9.03.2023 Cinema release for Eliza Petkova’s MAYOR, SHEPHERD, WIDOW, DRAGON

Eliza Petkova Poster film Mayor Shepherd Widow Dragon
Eliza Petkova’s film “Mayor, Shepherd, Widow, Dragon”

 

DE / BG, 2020, 97 min, OV with German subs
A film by Eliza Petkova

According to the legend, a dragon named Gincho is responsible for the disappearance of young women in the Bulgarian mountain village of Pirin. Almost only old people still live there without a doctor or priest, whose many empty houses are gradually being swallowed up by nature. But the committed mayor has not given up faith in the future. He wants to turn Pirin into a tourist attraction – and is trying to find a girlfriend on the Internet along the way. (Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2022)

German cinema release: 9 March 2023 at 8 p.m., in presence of the movie team at
Kino Krokodil, Greifenhagener Str. 32, 10437 Berlin.
Further details & tickets under this link (external)

FEELINGS – TV Series at Berlinale Showcase Up Next: Germany

Süheyla Schwenk © Matthias Scheuer

Director and screenwriter Süheyla Schwenk has shot four episodes of the coming-of-age mystery series FEELINGS, which will be presented at the 2023 Berlinale Series Market, produced by Studio Zentral for funk on behalf of ZDF.

Süheyla Schwenk is currently shooting a series for Bantry Bay and is in preparation for a television film for degeto/ARD.

 

18.02.2023 World premiere of Tina Satter’s debut film REALITY at the Berlinale

Tina Satter’s film is based on her successful play IS THIS A ROOM and will be screened at the Berlinale in the Panorama section.
IS THIS A ROOM was initially created as an Off-Broadway production. Due to its great success, the play then also ran on Broadway starting in the fall of 2021. Subsequently, the production made guest appearances at international festivals in Europe (including the Wiener Festwochen, FIND Festival/Schaubühne Berlin).
In parallel, Tina shot REALITY, starring Sydney Sweeney (pictured) and Josh Hamilton.

Young U.S. Air Force employee Reality Winner is suspected of whistleblowing. FBI agents first search her home, then begin a grueling interrogation.