Bondi Beach was premiered on the 7th of October 2023 at the municipal theatre in Ingolstadt. Further Productions followed in Regensburg, and the Hans-Otto-Theater in Potsdam in 2024/ 2025…
David Safier was born in Bremen in 1966. He trained as a journalist, worked as radio and TV presenter and script writer for TV before he turned his attention to writing novels. Those have be…
In 2016, Austrian director Christian Krönes and colleagues launched their two-hour documentary film Ein deutsches Leben, about Brunhilde Pomsel (1911 " 2017). To a large extent, the film fe…
Falk Richter was born in 1969. He studied linguistics, philosophy and theatre directing at the University of Hamburg, the city in which he was born. He has since developed a noted and intern…
The Schnürschuh-Theater in Bremen was founded in 1976 and has been at its current location since 1994. For 2025 it received public institutional funding of 92250 € (compared with 34,3…
Plays about famous people have always held special attraction to dramatists, theatres and audiences. Plays about famous artists (such as actors, musicians, painters, and poets) have held a p…
Dea Loher (b. 1964), has been a prominent German dramatist since the world premiere of her first play, Olgas Raum, in 1991. Her publisher, Verlag der Autoren, lists 24 plays. Frau Yamamoto i…
For this production of Shakespeare's play, Oldenburgisches Staatstheateer used the 2007 translation by theatre studies professor, dramatist and translator Jens Roselt, who is a graduate of t…
Many, especially prestigious, new productions of Chekhov's The Seagull in the UK and USA commission new translations or versions of the play. For example, in 1985, for his West End productio…
Bremen's Packhaustheater set its agenda with a focus on the local, so as not to compete with the municipal theatre, the two comedy theatres, the Bremer Shakespeare Company and the theatre sp…
The play Nebenan was premiered at Burgtheater Wien in 2022, based on the film of the same title (international title: Next Door) by Daniel Brühl (2021) in a production directed by the then …
In 2019, Landestheater Salzburg used a new translation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People as the basis for a version of the play in which Dr Katrine Stockmann was female, a single mother to h…
When the production first opened in 2022, critics commented on the fact that the play was being presented at Deutsches Theater although Pollesch was then the artistic manager of Volksbühne.…
Theater Bremen is currently showing the world premiere production of Der Zauberer von Öz " Eine Fußballtragödie by Akin Emauel Åžipal. The play is about football player Mesut Ö…
Der Schimmelreiter (The Rider on the White Horse) is a novella by German writer Theodor Storm (1817-1888), which Storm completed just months before his death. It has been acknowledged as amo…
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…
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…
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, fur…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 building…