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DAT WASSER VUN KÖLLE ES JOT

A Rhine crime thriller with music
in cooperation with CORRECTIV by Calle Fuhr
Director: Calle Fuhr

Water evokes emotions. For the Cologne soul in particular, it is more than just an elixir necessary for biological survival: numerous myths and stories lie beneath the surface of the Rhine, and no other German body of water has been sung about as much as the Rhine. The title of the play is taken from a famous line in a song by the Cologne band Bläck Fööss. But how clean is the Rhine?
Interwoven with Rhenish folk songs, Calle Fuhr tells a Cologne crime story that reveals uncomfortable facts about the water quality of the Rhine with the help of explosive research findings from the investigative media company CORRECTIV.

The world premiere will take place on February 7, 2026, at 8 p.m. at Depot 2, Schauspiel Köln.

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).

On December 18, 2025, Yousef Sweid and Isabella Sedlak will present their work at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York!
For more information about the event and registration, please click here!

Ahead of the event, the two talked to Bianna Golodryga from CNN about their play BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE SEA.

You can find the full interview with Isabella Sedlak and Yousef Sweid on CNN here:
‘My life between two narratives’: The Palestinian citizen of Israel exploring his identity onstage

THE ADVENTURES OF THE GOOD SOLDIER ŠVEJK based on Jaroslav Hašek

Director: Martina Gredler

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.