Legal journalist Maximilian Steinbeis’s play A Citizen of the People shows how easy it could be for a party like AfD to upend the country’s 75-year-old democracy A smile so sweet it will…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThroughout his life, the great German playwright made punky montages that explored how Nazism infested the country he had to flee. Why have they taken so long to come to light? Bertolt Brec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMLive tattooing, non-simulated sex, flesh hook body hoisting and an ejaculating helicopter – these are commonplace in the astonishing shows of Europe’s hottest director. But is her latest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMThe souffleur has all but vanished, except in Germany, where they sit in the front row – or even take to the stage. As actors are placed under huge pressure, does this really make drama mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:25PMElla Hickson’s radical new play asks its audience to spy on the lives of a nation gripped by revolutionary promise The National Theatre’s Dorfman stage is to be transformed into a gigant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMThey’ve stormed the Reichstag, turned terrorism into absurd comedy and asked their audiences for answers. Meet five theatre-makers grappling with crises across the continent.By Daniel Boff…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThe great German stage actor is thrilling new audiences with SS-GB and Personal Shopper. Our writer talks menace and murder with him over schnitzel in BerlinWhen Lars Eidinger first appeared…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMHe has been called ‘the German Orson Welles’ and carries the torch of political theatre lit by Bertolt Brecht. As Edinburgh prepares to stage Man to Man, his play about a woman forced to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThe Volksbühne, designed to bring art to the working classes, has its own workshop to ‘build things you cannot buy’. This curiosity shop of props is at the heart of the row over Chris D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThe Schaubühne is staging the absurdist classic with three actors sharing the main role. Director Philipp Preuss reflects on what ‘otherness’ means in societyAustrian director Philipp P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMHe has been called ‘the German Orson Welles’ and carries the torch of political theatre lit by Bertolt Brecht. As Edinburgh prepares to stage Man to Man, his play about a woman forced to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:07PMHas Britain thrown away its best theatre director? On the set of her daring new show, Katie Mitchell talks about being raved about everywhere but at homeA 1940s New York train carriage sits …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWhat makes Germans laugh – and why is it so different from what amuses the British? The answer may lie in a slapstick English comedy that became a TV favourite in GermanyThe sketch is call…
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