SCHAUBÜHNE

Germany, 1982: Rainer Werner Fassbinder dies; Nicole wins the Eurovision song contest with »Ein bißchen Frieden« (»A Little Peace«); Helmut Kohl becomes chancellor. Berlin, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having grown up in harmony with nature and the ancient world of the gods, the Greek, Hyperion, has joined the armed struggle against the Turkish ...

In a plush ballroom from a bygone era dance partners come together. They meet as strangers in this anachronistic setting, supposedly for the first time, ...

Under Duke Vincentio’s rule criminality and prostitution threaten to overrun the city. His deputy Angelo wants to install a rigid morality and sentences Claudio to ...

Just the right bullets To win the woman he loves, shy and retiring Wilhelm must shoot a white dove, while the chances are more in ...

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 ...

Paul, a consultant in his mid-40s, is called for the tenth time. The gate is closing: final boarding call. Paul hears his name again and ...

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 ...

Ulysses is called to wage war for a cause that does not concern him. Penelope waits 20 years for his return – or news of ...

Hamlet is going crazy. His father has died suddenly of a strange disease, and his mother has married her deceased husband’s brother, of all people, ...

Katie, an 18 year old middle-class kid from a liberal family, doesn’t want to be a good girl anymore. With smaller and larger inept acts ...

When Christiane F.’s report was first published as a book in 1978, educators were jubilant. They hoped, at last, to hold the key to keeping ...

A work by Johann Sebastian Bach forms the basis of a theatrical evening. What appears to be the epitome of a total world of sound ...

The showdown between two revolutionary thinkers who could not be more opposed: Jean-Paul Marat, a leading figure of the French Revolution, and the Marquis de ...

Strindberg's classic tragedy tells how the aristocratic Julie encounters the servant Jean in the kitchen of the manor. Jean's fiancée, Kristin also comes and goes ...

Shen Te, a youngwoman forced into prostitution by povertywho is rewarded handsomely after opening her home to three visiting gods. Disproving their contention that no ...

»Goya should rob me of my sleep before some other arsehole does it. I would rather Goya robbed me of my sleep than Adidas, Bofrost, ...

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 ...

Open for Everything is a travel through the stagnation of Roma communities in Europe where itinerant traditions have been replaced by sedentary confined life in ...

The theatre group BLITZ from Athens together with actors from the Schaubühne Ensemble created their project »Galaxy«, a long parade from the other world: (un-)dead ...

Dr. Stockmann, a spa town doctor, discovers that the sources of drinking and bathing water are riddled with pathogenic micro-organisms. The cause: contamination due to ...

Which truth is the correct one: that of the individual who wants to live his life through personal responsibility or that of the community which ...

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 ...

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 ...