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Thursday, November 20, 2025

“Liebe Mit Taktgefühl” By Barbara Raue-Flajs, At Piccolo Teatro Haventheater, Bremerhaven: Directorial Reflections by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Since August 2019, I have owned and run the chamber theatre, piccolo teatro Haventheater, in Bremerhaven. The theatre seats a total of 54; it was founded in 2011 by my predecessor, actor and…

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Adaptations On The German Stage (1): “Sein Oder Nicht Sein” In Bremerhaven by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Sein oder nicht sein is a play by Nick Whitby (b.1963), premiered on Broadway in 2008, and first presented in Germany at Deutsches Theater Berlin in 2009. It is based on the 1942 film of the…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:17AM
Monday, October 27, 2025

Six-Hour Tour De Force “Hamlet” In Hamburg, Directed, With Many Ironic Self-References, By Veteran Legendary Frank Castorf by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

This six-hour production of Hamlet took Shakespeare’s play as the starting and end point, in the German version by Heiner Müller, with additional material from Müller’s Hamletmaschine,…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:26AM
Friday, October 10, 2025

“Lale Lili Marleen:” The Promising Relaunch Of A Quaint Chamber Theatre In The Oldest District Of Bremen by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

The small district of Schnoor in the northern German city of Bremen, consisting of some 100 houses, has had a long history. First mentioned in the 13th century, the oldest parts of extant bu…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 06:55AM
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Lessing’s “Emilia Galotti” As Directorial Debut In Bremen by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

At German theatres, some assistant directors are employed for the duration of a production, from first rehearsals to opening night, or until the last performance. In any one season, such ass…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:37AM
Monday, August 25, 2025

German Summer Festival Theatre (2): Domfestspiele Verden, “Die Zündholzfrau” by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

In 1997, an association was founded in the German city of Verden on the river Aller, located between Bremen and Hannover in Lower Saxony, to arrange large-scale theatre productions, in the f…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:57AM
Sunday, August 24, 2025

German Summer Festival Theatre (1): Theatersommer Wismar, Brecht/Weill The Threepenny Opera by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Over the summer months, all of the publicly funded state and municipal theatres, as well as Landesbühnen and some privately owned theatres have an institutional holiday season of six to eig…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:50AM
Monday, July 28, 2025

Mark St Germain’s “Dancing Lessons” At Boulevard Münster In The Context Of The Ongoing Comedy Theatre Tradition In Germany by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe

Germany’s theatre landscape is very rich indeed. Many cities have publicly owned and funded buildings with their own resident companies, other cities receive, in their local theatre buildi…

SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:42AM

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