THE WHALE tells the moving story of a reclusive man who confronts his past, his guilt and his longing for reconciliation.
Darren Aronofsky adapted the play for film in 2022 after it had already been enjoyed success on US stages.
The German-language premiere will take place on October 9, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Renaissance-Theater in Berlin.
A co-production by Riksteatern and Borås Stadsteater
The commissioned work AUGUSTISNÖ is a biting satire about class, climate and today’s longing for ready-made stories in an export-friendly format. Trinidad Gonzalez stages this tour de force with incredible precision and plenty of humour.
The world premiere will take place on 3 October at Väven, Vävenscenen in Umeå, after which the production will be on tour across Sweden.
Natalia Sinelnikova caused a sensation with her film debut which was screened at many A-list festivals and was highly acclaimed. Now she is turning her attention to theatre and presenting her first stage work.
The premiere of DER FISKUS will take place on 3 October 2025 at 5 p.m. at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Theatersaal).
The Ensemble dlé – director Florian Hertweck, actor Tim Knapper and musician Malcolm Kemp – stages DIE ORESTIE based on Aeschylus at Theater Aachen. This is where great ancient tragedy meets participatory theatre, ‘true crime’ meets rap theatre.
‘Remarkably relaxed and linguistically very precise’ / ‘A magnificent performance that gives you a lot to think about.’ – Andreas Falentin, Die Deutsche Bühne
Tickets and further performance dates
The debut of British-Iranian author Zak Zarafshan sparkles with sharp wit and quirky ideas, and caused a sensation in London’s West End. Vienna-based Martina Gredler brings this brilliant comedy about tolerance, double standards and the secrets between parents and children to the stage as a German-language premiere.
The German Language Premiere takes place on September 25, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Volkstheater Vienna.
Director Ran Chai Bar-zvi, whose productions combine political poignancy with poetic power, focuses on Klaus Mann’s debut novel, which tells of the dreams, fears and life paths of young people in a time marked by numerous crises and upheavals. They find refuge in Berlin’s club scene, where freedom and resistance still seem possible. Through its open exploration of permissive and same-sex love, Mann’s work breaks social taboos as one of the first coming-out novels of its era. It takes us to the Weimar Republic, where the feelings and struggles of a generation against authoritarian tendencies become a powerful cry for liberation.
The premiere will take place on September 24, 2025 at 8 p.m. at the Thalia Theatre Hamburg (Gaußstraße).
Funded by the Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz
Premiere on September 20, 2025 at the Kleines Haus of the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Tickets for future performances from September 2025 to January 2026 can be purchased here.
“A writer is someone who has difficulties with the German language”: Tomer Gardi tells us a rogue’s tale, cheeky, with linguistic capers in “Broken German”, an artificial language with unusual spelling, idiosyncratic sentence structure and all but flawless standard German. The language is played with in a comical and slapstick-like manner, breaking with the conventions of storytelling and questioning the possibility of comprehensive communication: how can it succeed when words, thoughts, people and even dogs suddenly encounter each other in completely different cultural contexts?
The world premiere will take place on September 20, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Schauspiel Stuttgart (Kammertheater).
Jacob McNeal is a successful, unscrupulous writer almost manically hoping to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His liver is failing, his son is threatening him with a public scandal and his fascination with artificial intelligence could shut down his career.
In his new play, Ayad Akhtar questions the machinations of the literary world and the influence of AI on his profession as a writer and reflects on the issues of greed, power and intellectual appropriation.
The German premiere will take place on September 14, 2025 at 7 p.m. at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus.
FASCHOLAND by Canberk Köktürk released by ULLSTEIN!
In his non-fiction crime novel, FASCHOLAND, Canberk Köktürk investigates Germany, because hatred, incitement and structural racism are poisoning the country. Köktürk writes like others strike: precisely, painfully and with a smile on his lips. A book that Germany deserves – and urgently needs.
“A highly intelligent and necessary examination of racism, memory and the present day. ” (“Eine sehr kluge und notwendige Spurensuche über Rassismus, Erinnerung und Gegenwart.”) Kathrin Wosch, RBB radioeins
The book premiere will take place on 12 September 2025 at 8 p.m. at Heimathafen Neukölln.
Further Informationen and tickets