ATLAS – A stage essay
by Calle Fuhr
in cooperation with CORRECTIV
The world premiere will take place on January 30, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Malersaal).
Info & tickets
The world premiere will take place on January 30, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Schauspielhaus Hamburg (Malersaal).
Info & tickets
Premiere at the Munich Volkstheater on January 23, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.
The golden age is over – the young emperor is in mourning. After the death of his sister and lover Drusilla, he questions the meaning of human existence: “People die and they are not happy”. What follows are cruel years, full of executions and arbitrariness on the part of the power-obsessed ruler.
The shrinking of democratic processes and the worldwide flourishing of autocracies lend the play a new political dimension. At the same time, for Camus, as for Caligula, social artificiality remains the basic motif: the emperor as a total director and yet a seeker of unattainable freedom.
Dates & tickets
The world premiere takes place on January 21, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at the Old Vic London.
Guest performance on January 6, 2025 at 8:00 p.m. at the Berliner Ensemble.
Followed by an audience discussion with Carl Mühlbach (economist).
The recession is in full swing, there is a lack of money in the next federal budget, and Calle Fuhr wants to make his contribution to the economic stabilization of the FRG. If every citizen donates something to the state, Fuhr thinks, the debt hole can close quickly!
But it’s not that simple.
Lecture performance by and with Calle Fuhr.
A co-production of Theater Magdeburg and the Festival OSTEN
The world premiere takes place on December 14, 2024, at 8:00 p.m. at Schaubühne Berlin.
When Astrid invites her boss Wolfram Balderkamp to an informal work meeting to her place, her partner Klara is outraged. Balderkamp teaches at the school where Klara was Astrid’s student ten years ago. What happens when he remembers her? Besides, she can’t forgive his ‘learning methods’. What does Astrid want from him?
Like a spider, Wolfram roams the apartment, weaving a dangerous web with his questioning: Where did the two meet? And when exactly? Whether this one bath towel was gifted to Astrid by students of the current year? And what exactly had happened with that one girl on the class trip?
In the not-so-distant future, climate change has continued unabated, many species are already extinct, vast areas are barely habitable… A race begins to see who deserves to survive. Welcome to the alien entertainment reality show in which humans compete with chickens, pandas, ants, crocodiles and foxes to recolonize the earth as the only surviving species.
Dates & tickets
Ran Chai Bar-zvi receives the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize for his production of “Blutbuch”, based on the novel by Kim de l’Horizon, at the Staatstheater Hannover. The decision was made by Almut Wagner, head dramaturge at the Residenztheater and sole juror for the Kurt Hübner Directing Prize. “Ran Chai Bar-zvi always handles even large, existential material with lightness and an incredible instinct for entertainment, […] yet he never runs the risk of trivializing the serious core of the plays,” emphasizes Almut Wagner – as in ‘Blutbuch’, the work for which Ran Chai Bar-zvi receives the prize.
The award has been presented to young directors by the German Academy of Performing Arts since 1991 as part of the Eysoldt Prize ceremony in Bensheim. The prize is endowed with 5000 euros.
Charlie is in his mid-40s and teaches college students English literature. Exclusively online, with the camera switched off. Because Charlie is extremely overweight. He lives in isolation and has long since lost touch with his ex-wife and his 17-year-old daughter Ellie, who is difficult to raise.
Charlie’s interaction with the outside world is limited to home visits from his nurse friend Liz, who finds Charlie’s physical decline difficult to bear, and from the young missionary Elder Thomas.
When the consequences of the illness become life-threatening, Charlie finally makes contact with Ellie.
The film adaptation of “The Whale” (D: Darron Aronofsky) won Brandon Fraser the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2023.
On November 15-22, 2024, the Black Nights Film Festival took place in Tallinn for the 28th time. The film THE WORKER by Eliza Petkova (in development) was presented as part of the Baltic Event Co-Production Market and won the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award for Best Project.
Jury’s statement: “With the experience of immigration within Europe as a starting point, this project takes us, and the protagonist, on an unexpected journey. A journey during which the director invites us to rethink the meaning of community and masculinity.”
THE WORKER (dt. “Der Arbeiter”)
Director & screenplay: Eliza Petkova
Producer: Nicolas Kronauer
Produced by: ROW Pictures GmbH, Fourmat Film GmbH
Germany, Bulgaria
After a mine collapse, Georgi – a Roma man and a father in his late twenties – leaves his family in Bulgaria for Germany. He switches jobs, facing exploitation as an undocumented worker. His desire to maintain the image of a luxurious life in rich Germany leads him to construct a facade far from his truth.