00:00 h | 31. Aug 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Die Rebellion ist niedergeschlagen, Fürst Don Pedro kehrt mit seinen Leuten als Sieger aus der Schlacht zurück – Pedros Bruder, Don John, als Gefangener. Der Triumph soll bei Leonato gefeiert werden: mit Faulenzen, Essen, Alkohol und einem Kostümfest. Der junge Claudio und Leonatos Tochter Hero kommen sich dabei näher, rasch wird die Hochzeit beschlossen. Don John wittert eine Chance, erneut Unheil ...
00:00 h | 17. Apr 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on 17 April 2013.
After Schiller’s »The Robbers«, Lars Eidinger returns in his role as director for the Schaubühne’s new production of »Romeo & Juliet«. In Eidinger's version, Shakespeare's classic becomes a play within a play which explores and scrutinises not only the possibilities of dramatic representation but also the constitution of our emotions as well as our social coexistence. ...
00:00 h | 17. Mar 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on March 18, 2013.
An impoverished artist hopes to achieve fame and fortune by winning an art prize. A father, who loves opera and boxing, gives his son vermouth and olives for breakfast, in order to protect him from any horrific experiences at school. The two men love the same woman and want to win her heart and body. As the way to any (wo)man’s heart is through the stomach, the men ...
00:00 h | 22. Dec 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on December 22nd, 2012
»Gefahr-Bar™« (Danger-Bar) is the name of Nicolas Stemann’s theatre/music trio, who appear to muster a collective, counter-blast to the burden of life’s travails. Texts, songs and numbers to rescue us from the perils of existence!
00:00 h | 22. Nov 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on November 24, 2012.
<b>Just the right bullets</b> To win the woman he loves, shy and retiring Wilhelm must shoot a white dove, while the chances are more in favour of the rather unpleasant, Robert. A mysterious man with a limp gives Wilhelm magic bullets and he suddenly hits his target with every shot. When Wilhelm is in need of new bullets, the limping man shows his true face: He grants ...
00:00 h | 12. Jan 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered in Rennes on November 10th, 2012
Premiered in Berlin on January 12th, 2013
The writer Gustav von Aschenbach is consumed by wanderlust. He travels to Venice in the hope of freeing himself from work regime. When he encounters the fourteen-year-old Tadzio, Aschenbach is consumed by an unprecedented passion. In the boy Aschenbach believes he has found the embodiment of his artistic ideals. ...
Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade
00:00 h | 06. Oct 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiere was on October 6, 2012
The showdown between two revolutionary thinkers: Jean-Paul Marat, a leading figure of the French Revolution, and the Marquis de Sade, who completely lacks faith in humanity and its capacity to progress, takes place against the backdrop of a theatre production by the inmates of the Charenton asylum. Under the direction of the Marquis de Sade himself, who has been ...
00:00 h | 08. Sep 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiere in Avignon on July 18th 2012
Premiere in Berlin on September 8th 2012
Dr. Stockmann discovers that the source of drinking and spa water is riddled with pathogenic micro-organisms, caused by industrial effluence. Stockmann wants to publish the findings in the newspaper and demands that the city council re-route the water pipes. Influential citizens and local journalists promise their support. ...
00:00 h | 25. Jan 2013 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiered on January 25th, 2013
With the world premiere in 1947 of »Draußen vor der Tür« Wolfgang Borchert became one of the most important voices of the German post-war literary scene. His play tells the story of Beckmann, a young veteran who has returned from the war with Russia and cannot sleep for thoughts of his dead comrades. He tries to pass on responsibility for his actions but the society ...
00:00 h | 25. Feb 2012 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Benjamin refuses to take part in school swimming lessons. His mother suspects drugs, but the real reason
is something else: Benjamin has religious feelings. He begins to study the Bible and to terrorise his fellow
pupils and teacher.
00:00 h | 26. Nov 2011 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Using the German translation by Ulrich Busch
Premiere: November 25th, 2011
Alexander Pushkin is considered Russia’s greatest poet and the creator of the language of modern literary Russian. Eugene Onegin is his most famous work. The director Alvis Hermamis follows the protagonists through the early 19th century, a world that has since become very distant and strange to us.
00:00 h | 21. May 2011 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
German translation by Andrea Clemen
Premiere: may 21st, 2011
A farmer lies sick and shackled to his bed. While his farm decays, his young wife and especially his farm-hand exploit his helpless state to their advantage. The farm-hand Nikita begins an affair with his retarded daughter. The farmer’s second wife, Anisja, purchases poison in order to hasten his demise, her greatest fear being, however ...
00:00 h | 22. Jan 2011 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Musical theatre after Claudio Monteverdi with texts by Homer, Giacomo Badoaro, Péter Esterházy in an adaptation by the ensemble
Premiere: January 22nd, 2011
Ulysses is called to wage war for a cause that does not concern him. Penelope waits 20 years for his return – or news of his death. It’s an existence in permanent limbo. Her previous life is over and she cannot start a new one as long as ...
00:00 h | 21. Nov 2010 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Premiere: November 20th, 2010
A couple, Eva and Robert, come home after a holiday. The plants look mysteriously different and a letter informs them of the disconnection of their electricity supply. Enter Judith and Sebastian, friends of the couple, who were meant to have taken care of things in their absence. However, they turn out to be the rightful occupants and throw Eva and Robert unceremoniously ...
00:00 h | 26. Feb 2010 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
German translation by Angelika Gundlach
Premiere: March 2nd, 2010
Frank comes home. He trips over his wife’s shoes, surprised and annoyed by the general untidiness of the flat and cigarette ashes lying around in the most unexpected places. The normal chaos of a normal relationship. He searches for a place for his plasticbag. He hasn’t brought home the shopping though; it’s the ashes of his dead ...
00:00 h | 06. Mar 2009 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
World Premiere
sponsored by Kulturstiftung des Bundes within the frame of »60 Jahre Deutschland. Annäherung an eine unbehagliche Identität«.
Premiere: march 6th, 2009
»I want to run away,« are Robert’s first words in the play »The Doves« and they hold true for its protagonist in two ways: Robert Bertrand wants to run away from the office Christmas party and, as he points out to his junior assistant ...
00:00 h | 17. Sep 2008 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
German translation by Marius von Mayenburg
A co-production with the Hellenic Festival Athens and the Festival d'Avignon
Hamlet is going mad. His father has died suddenly of a strange disease, and hismother hasmarried her deceased husband’s brother, of all people, after just one month. Hamlet has nighttime visions of his father, who claims his brother poisoned him, and exhorts Hamlet to take revenge ...
00:00 h | 31. Oct 2008 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
Translation into German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel
Premiere: October 26th, 2005
Hedda Gabler, the daughter of a general, has just married. Her husband Jörgen Tesman, an upcoming historian, is about to be appointed a professor. He thus borrowed some money to offer his demanding wife a life of prosperity and bought a mansion. His opponent, the handsome and more gifted Lövborg, was ditched by Hedda. ...
00:00 h | 27. Oct 2008 | Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
German by Marius von Mayenburg
German Language premiere
Premiere: March 23rd, 2000
Two women and two men. They are talking about love, about hopes, longings, desire, disappointment, despair and loneliness. We never find out exactly where they are, and when they begin to speak it is not clear who they are, whether they are talking to themselves or to each other, whether there are relationships ...
20:00 h | 08. Sep 2008 | Omsk - OMSK DRAMA THEATRE - FESTIVAL ACADEMIA |Berlin [ Charlottenburg ]
In “Wunschkonzert”, the Munich playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz wrote a silent monologue of a single woman and her suicide. Kroetz comments: “Suicide is often done in an orderly fashion. Suicide’s preparations – which take place almost seamlessly with daily life and normal activities – come from the same love of order and cleanliness, and blind bourgeois hopelessness, as the life that caused the crisis. ...
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