HOUSE OF KARLS
A very entertaining rap spectacle about Charlemagne
from & with Dlé
Director: Florian Hertweck Music & text: Dlé (Florian Hertweck, Malcolm Kemp, Tim Knapper) at Theater Aachen
What do we really know about Charlemagne? Christian emperor and womaniser, illiterate and educational reformer, “Builder of Europe” and bloodthirsty warmonger – the sources are biased and thin – the best conditions for a theatre play!
MALINA
from Igenborg Bachmann
Stage adoptation: Fritzi Wartenberg Directed by: Fritzi Wartenberg
am Berliner Ensemble
What does it feel like to be free in love and to be able to say “me” in a world that aknowledges no “us”?
Ingeborg Bachmann’s novel, adapted for the stage by Fritzi Wartenberg, examines what does it mean when one’s hopes do not coincide with social expectations.
AUFSTIEG UND FALL DES HERRN RENÉ BENKO
from & with Calle Fuhr
in cooperation with DOSSIER
at Volkstheater Wien
In his play, Calle Fuhr uncovers the evil machinations behind property speculation, gentrification and fraud. As he unveils one scandal after another in the most entertaining way, one can’t help but stunning. At the end, you begin to ask yourself who can actually be trusted.
KEIMZELLEN by Rébecca Déraspe
Director: Michael Steindl
German translator: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
Aude and Lou are best friends. For 35 years they have been able to find solace in each other’s sorrows. Now Aude is pregnant and her fetus has trisomy 21. Lou insists on an abortion, Aude wants to keep the child.
The two ruthlessly argue about life and their own values – a declaration of love to female friendship.
The premiere will take place on Friday, March 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets & further dates: link
DER VEREIN (THE ASSOCIATION) by Steffen Link
Director: Theresa Thomasberger
There’s not much to do in a small German town, which is why a group of adults get together to form a Bible reading group. Gradually, the self-appointed pastor becomes a fanatical leader who makes decisions about the lives of the members of his ‘association’.
The world premiere will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Wien.
Tickets & further dates: link
The Munich Volkstheater has announced the program for this year’s “radikal jung” festival:
included are the productions DAS GROSSE HEFT by Ágota Kristóf (directed by / stage adaptation by: Ran Chai Bar-zvi) and DAS KRAFTWERK – Ein Theaterabend über Wasser, Kohle und die Ewigkeit by Calle Fuhr (directed by: Afram Tafreshian).
DAS GROSSE HEFT plays on Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. DAS KRAFTWERK – a Theater Evening about Water, Coal and Eternity plays on Monday, April 22, 2024 at 8:00 p.m.
The aim of the festival is to promote the new generation of theater makers, to follow their thematic and aesthetic preferences and to present a modern theater landscape to both a professional audience and a broad public. The jury consisted of: Jens Hillje, Christine Wahl, C. Bernd Sucher and Florian Fischer.
The festival will take place from April 19 to April 27, 2024.
Program & tickets: link
German cinema release for Tina Satter’s film REALITY starts on February 8, 2024. REALITY premiered to rave reviews at the 2023 Berlin International Film Festival.
Reality Winner, a young U.S. Air Force employee, is suspected of being a whistleblower. First, the FBI agents search her house. Then a grueling interrogation begins… Based on true events.
REALITY
Written and directed by: Tina Satter
Based on Tina Satter’s play IS THIS A ROOM, 2019
Starring: Sydney Sweeney (as Reality), Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis
USA, 2022, Seaview production
Following its successful premiere at the 40th Munich Film Festival, Erol Afşin’s drama IT’S BURNING (ES BRENNT) has toured through national and international festivals.
The debut will screen for the first time in Berlin on February 20, 2024 at Maxim Gorki Theater at 8:00 p.m.
Tickets available under this link.
Amal, Omar and their son Ahmad are a happy Arab family living in Germany. In the playground, they meet a man named Franz. The situation gets out of hand when Franz insults and attacks Amal because of her headscarf. A court case is initiated. During the hearings, an incident occurs that will completely change the family’s life.
Based on a true story.
BUCKET LIST by Yael Ronen and Shlomi Shaban is one of the ten most remarkable productions invited to the Theatertreffen 2024. This was announced by the jury, consisting of Eva Behrendt, Janis El-Bira, Valeria Heintges, Martin Thomas Pesl, Katrin Ullmann, Theresa Luise Gindlstrasser (was involved until the end of 2023) and Sascha Westphal, on January 26, 2024.
The musical BUCKET LIST reflects on human memory mechanisms and questions artificial interventions in these mechanisms. The evening unfolds like gaps in the memory of a man for whom nothing seems the same after October 7, 2023.
BUCKET LIST premiered on December 9, 2023 at the Schaubühne Berlin in co-production with Théâtre de Liège.
Link to the complete jury’s statement. Link to tickets & dates at the Schaubühne Berlin.
The FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS initiative shines a spotlight on some of the most influential German talent currently working in the industry, representing just some of the many dynamic “faces” of German filmmaking today. Since its first edition, the annual campaign has established itself as a platform to give German film talent international visibility and draw the attention of the global film industry to some of the country’s most sensational newcomers and professionals.
The faces of the 2024 FACE TO FACE WITH GERMAN FILMS – THE FILMMAKERS campaign are:
Jan Bülow (DIE UNIVERSELLE THEORIE, LINDENBERG, KAFKA), actor Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay (ORAY, LOVE, GERMAN MARK AND DEATH), writer, director, producer
Banafshe Hourmazdi (NO HARD FEELINGS, LOVING HER, NO BEAST SO FIERCE), actor
Moritz Müller-Preißer (WIR SIND DATEN, HAEBERLI, GOTTES ANDERER PLAN), screenwriter and director
Mona Cathleen Otterbach (FRANKY FIVE STAR, MILK TEETH), production designer
Eva Trobisch (ALLES GUTE, IVO), screenwriter and director
Soleen Yusef (SAM A SAXON, DEUTSCHLAND 89, WINNERS), screenplay and director
