Dance performance with live music by Cíntia Rangel & Theatre o.N.

What could be more magical than letting your imagination run wild? One of the myths about the baobab says that the Orixas created it so large (a baobab can grow up to 30 meters high) that it can be seen from a distance and can even look far. Its trunk is hollow and thick (it can reach a diameter of up to 11m) and can store not only water, but also knowledge over its more than thousand years of life. The story goes that when the baobab saw its reflection in the water of a lake, it began to ask the orixas why it was so different from the other trees. In response, the orixas turned it upside down so that it could focus on itself and realize that it was just as certain as all the other trees with leaves, fruit or flowers. This is why the branches of a baobab resemble roots. Thus the baobab became the tree of life, an ancient link between past and future, a symbol of resilience to time and challenges, a keeper of knowledge that is pocket booked down through generations. It is said that a baobab that you embrace can tell stories and lessons from thousands of years. This is the story that inspired the dance performance "Baobab".

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Concept, direction, choreography and performance: Cíntia Rangel
Music and performance: K'boko (Fabiano Lima)
Dramaturgy and assistant director: Guilherme Morais
Set design, video and documentation: Zé de Paiva, Kathleen Kunath
Costume design: Michelle Ferreira
Lighting design: Raquel Rosildete
Lighting design collaboration and lighting technology: Aslı Atasoy Öner
Project management: Vera Strobel
Production management: Yaser Mohammad
Public relations and marketing: Sophie Braun, Nele Riepl, Silke Saalfrank
Photos: Douglas Pingituro

Supported by the Haupstadtkulturfonds

Premiere: 17.05.2025 Playing time: 35-40 min.

Age recommendation: from 2 to 8

https://www.Theatre-on.de/

A bizarre musical tale with mask play and dance on the subject of forgiveness, based on the picture book by Wolfdietrich Schnurre

We teach our children not to hit back but to forgive. Forgive - even if someone destroys my loved one? Wolfdietrich Schnurre, founder of Literatur-Gruppe 47, left behind a short fable that has been published posthumously as a picture book, illustrated by Aljoscha Blau. Here, the elephant in the china store turns the saying from which it originates on its head: he cherishes and cares for the fine crockery with the greatest care and sells it at proud prices to wealthy lovers. One day, a "poor little" mouse comes along, a bit of a riot today, just wants a cheap bowl of soup but leaves behind a huge pile of broken pieces. "Everything's broken, a thousand sharp shards, it'll never be the same again." Fortunately, the neighbors have called the police, who are on the scene immediately. But then everything takes an unexpected turn... Under the direction of Matthias Schönfeldt, the ATZE MusikTheatre brings this story to the stage. With music by Iljá Pletner and masks by Frida Grubba, the result is a bizarre musical tale with mask play and dance.

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Thu. 21.05.2026, 16:30 h
Fri. 22.05.2026, 16:30 h
Sun. 24.05., 15:00 h
Sun. 01.11.2026, 15:00 h
Tue. 03.11.2026, 10:00 h

Performers: Falk Berghofer, Breeanne Saxton, Iljá Pletner
Director: Matthias Schönfeldt
Composition & musical direction: Iljá Pletner Stage design
Costumes & masks: Frida Grubba
Make-up consultant: Jana Heilmann
Lighting: Frank Hamann & Alex Weiglin

Premiere: 19.07.2025 Duration: 50 min.
Age recommendation: 5 - 9
https://atzeberlin.de/

Open-age dance performance for everyone aged 5 and over for deaf and hearing audiences about worlds of use

How differently can one and the same situation be perceived? As a rule, we learn that humans have five senses: Hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling and feeling. However, the use of living creatures in the world is far more colorful and diverse. baff gets to the bottom of this idea in a research laboratory with 5 experiments. In a wild journey through different worlds of use, it quickly becomes clear: we don't perceive the world as it is, we perceive it as we are.

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Concept, choreography, performance: Jan Kress, Jan Rozman, Julia Keren Turbahn
Stage design: Dan Pikalo
Lighting design: Annegret Schalke
Costume design: Jan Brovc
Sound design: Tim Schwerdter Access
Dramaturgy: Susanne Tod Outside Eye: Anna Deul, Rachell Bo Clark
Illustration, graphic design; Matija Medved
Theatre educational poster: Charlotte Bartesch, Julia Keren Turbahn, Gitanjali Schmelcher, Susanne Tod
Production management: Alexander Schröder, Julia Keren Turbahn
Photos: Philipp Weinrich
DGS interpreting: Neely de Jong, Caterina Macht
Video documentation: abraso [Camilo Londoño Hernández and Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya

The production was accompanied by pupils from Rosa-Parks-Grundschule Ernst-Adolf-Eschke-Schule. With thanks to Stephan Neumann, Ziv Frenkel and Nora Gores. In co-production with FELD Zentrale für junge Performance. Made possible by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin as part of the individual project funding. With the support of the residency program of the Slovenian Ministry of Culture.

Deaf* for baff includes different identities and realities of life such as deaf, hard of hearing, CI-wearing and later deaf.

Premiere: 18.02.2026
Play length: approx. 60 min.
Age recommendation: age-appropriate from 5
https://www.baff.website/

A play by Uta Bierbaum about domestic violence - and what we can do about it

Did you know that a high-rise building is teeming with adventures? No? Then pay attention: If you take the elevator to the 40th floor, for example, you end up on the jungle floor. You really have to watch out there: A giant gorilla is up to mischief there. But luckily you're not traveling alone. 9-year-old Eddie and his explorer friend Mr. Taniwa are there to lead the research excursion. Together with his mom, baby brother Pupsbert and Mario, mom's new man, Eddie lives in a small apartment on the 13th floor. 13 is an unlucky number, as his grandma has explained to him. She also says that "tonight at 03:34" a meteorite will crash to earth. Eddie stays cool about it - he's more worried that Mario might realize that he's been up all night. Then he'd probably get slapped in the face again. At least the end of the world would put an end to that. But what if no meteorite comes and everything stays as it is? A high-rise adventure story with monsters, meteorites and daft stepfathers - told by Eddie, who finally finds out that the end of the world is not necessary for a safe home. The world premiere of Uta Bierbaum's play will be staged by Matthias Schönfeldt. He directs Eddie as an inquisitive and fun-loving boy who navigates himself and us through a dreary high-rise landscape and tries to forget the oppressive situation at home with stories and imaginary elevator rides. Frida Grubba's set design with slide projections and slide-framed high-rise worlds creates a multi-faceted interplay between light and shadow, which translates the turbulent inner world of the protagonist into sound through Sinem Altan's musical arrangements and brings his feelings to the light of day.

Reference to sensitive content: Child endangerment. Do you have problems at home, grief or anxiety and don't know what else to do? The children's emergency service is there for you around the clock. Simply call: 030 610061

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Tue. 09.06.2026, 10:00 a.m.
Wed. 10.06.2026, 10:00 a.m.
Wed. 14.10.2026, 10:00 a.m.
Thu. 15.10.2026, 10:00 a.m.
Wed. 11.11.2026, 10:00 a.m.
Thu. 12.11.2026, 10:00 a.m.

Performers: James Christopher Dougla, Lennie Gottberg, Otto Kosok
Book: Uta Bierbaum
Director: Matthias Schönfeldt
Composition and musical direction: Sinem Altan Stage and costume design: Frida Grubba
Dramaturgy: Nicola Willeke Lighting: Henryk Weidl & Eva Ramdohr
Stage design: Henryk Weidl Co-Pilots
Expert class: Classes 4.-6. of the Anna-Essinger-Gemeinschaftsschule, Montessori Grundschule with Ms. Putzo
Performance rights: S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main

Premiere: 09.11.2025
Playing time: 75 min.
Age recommendation: 9 - 12
https://atzeberlin.de/

Play by Dorit Linke and ensemble

Belonging. That is Kirko's greatest wish when he arrives in a new country after a long escape. But instead of open doors, he encounters loneliness, bureaucratic hurdles and xenophobia. No one is waiting for him in the room he has been allocated. A new life is about to begin. But what can it look like? Where does it begin? And who will help him? The objects in Kirko's suitcase tell stories from the past. These memories of friendship and solidarity give him the strength to articulate his wishes for coexistence in his new home and to counter the hostility he encounters with a vision for the future. It can pave the way for a new beginning. Together with you.

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Mon. 06.07.2026, 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. | Theatre Morgenstern
Tue. 07.07.2026, 9:00 & 11:00 a.m. | Theatre Morgenstern
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Acting: Oleksandr Koval
Idea/director: Daniel Koch
Text & dramaturgy: Dorit Linke
Co-dramaturgy: Dirk Brauner
Stage: Dirk Thiele
Costume: Katrin F. Bischof
Music: Radu Nagy
Lighting: Iana Boitcova
Video and sound: Tina Kovalski
Set design: Marco Riedel
Production management: Pascale Senn Koch
Photos: Jörg Metzner

Supported by the Stiftung am Grunewald, the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and the Verein Freunde und Förderer des Theatre Morgenstern e.V.

Premiere: 05.07.2025
Duration: approx. 90 min.
Age recommendation: 9+
https://www.Theatre-morgenstern.de/

Interactive performance by Turbo Pascal

Democracy not only takes place in elections, parliaments and governments, but also in your feed, in discussions with friends and in demonstrations on the street. It affects us all. In the interactive performance "Regieren euch!" (Govern yourselves!), we move together through various scenes of democracy and ask: Can demonstrations make a difference? How does social media shape your opinion? And what do we do when anti-democratic tendencies become louder? The stage becomes a playing field and you help decide who should be in power, what needs to be strengthened, what needs to be pushed back - and which issues urgently need new attention. This creates a polyphonic space that belongs to all of us! Can we manage to endure it together - with all the conflicts, ideas and possibilities that make up democracy? Young people's issues are not given enough space or a hearing in current politics, and trust in democratic processes is dwindling. But when trust is lost, values such as tolerance, respect, diversity and freedom of opinion also become vulnerable. "Regiert euch!" shows that it is worth defending democracy and that it cannot do without your voices and your actions! Following the success of "Unterscheidet euch!", the Turbo Pascal Theatre collective returns to the Parkaue with a new interactive performance and invites the audience to experience democracy in a playful way.

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With: Friedrich Greiling, Anna Lepskaya, Mira Tscherne
With (alternating): Eva Plischke, Angela Löer, Frank Oberhäußer
Director: Turbo Pascal
Stage and costumes: Janina Janke
Music: Friedrich Greiling
Video: Daniela del Pomar
Video assistant: Paul Holdsworth Dramaturgy: Leila Etheridge Artistic
Mediation: Irina-Simona Bârcă, İlayda Schattner

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

Premiere: 02.10.2025
Playing time: 65 min.
Age recommendation: 12 - 16
https://www.parkaue.de/

Bridge Markland races through Kleist's broken jug with gusto + steams up the classic into an entertaining pop-music courtroom show. The courtroom dispute over a broken jug hides another crime: influential man harasses young woman. Will Eve dare to accuse the perpetrator and thus exonerate her fiancé Ruprecht? Because he is threatened with military service in distant lands and Hans Albers sings vividly about this "at Rocktown he's long since in his grave / and flowers grow out of his bones". The web of lies and the abuse of power become more and more transparent during the show. Can justice prevail in the end? In quick succession, the quick-change artist with and without hand-guided puppets plays the village judge Adam, clerk Licht, court councillor Walter, plaintiff Marthe Rull, her daughter Eve Rull and her fiancé Ruprecht, as well as the witness Mrs. Brigitte.

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30.09.2026, 20:00 | BrotfabrikBühne
05.11.2026, 20:00 | BrotfabrikBühne
06.11.2026, 20:00 | BrotfabrikBühne
12.11.2026, 19:30 | Showfenster Theatre

Play: Bridge Markland Speakers: Thomas Nicolai, Frank Zimmermann, Ingo Volkmer, Sigrid Grajek, Xenia Fitzner, Nikolai Radke, Claudia Jakobshagen, Joanna Kupnicka, Olaf Grolmes
Director: Bridge Markland + Nils Foerster
Text + sound collage: Bridge Markland
Sound design: Tom Hornig
Puppets, costumes, props: Eva Garland
Photos: Manuela Schneider - Photogräphin
Press + Public Relations: Kerstin Böttch

Supported by Bretscher + Partner AG/Zurich, Dr. Alwine Doris Fouquet-Plümacher / Kleist Gesellschaft certain thanks to: Gisela Tenz, Manuela, Patrick Scully

Premiere: 25.11.2025
Playing time: 80 min.
Age recommendation: 13+
https://bridge-markland.com/

Sometimes you have to do something wrong to make everything right again.

Life suddenly turns upside down in class 8C at Rothstatten High School when the students learn that their lovable but dorky English teacher Mr. Keen has entered them for the Shakespeare competition "Young Players England", at none other than the National Theatre in central London. The excitement is great. A trip to the capital! But at what price? Playing Shakespeare?! The rehearsals are a disaster. Cardboard props? Cringe! The exchange student secretly wants to play Hamlet, Daphne wants to play everything, Sam wants to play nothing and the real Hamlet is once again "ill". Nevertheless! The show must go on! What the students don't realize is that their problems are about to get much worse when they get in the way of a gang of wanted burglars in London who want to break into the exhibition of the Crown Jewels. Suddenly Laertes is a prime suspect and Queen Gertrude is in custody. The troupe has to make difficult decisions. How well do they actually know each other and who is that tall guy at the door? How do you stick together when you can't trust anyone? London Calling is a fast-paced play with plenty of drama and fantastic sound design. We bring the motifs and conventions of the play within the play, as beloved by Shakespeare, to the stage for young people in plain English. The four players have 14 characters on offer. Everyone will find themselves in this play. The changeable play nevertheless conceals a surprising depth and we get a tender insight into the often stormy emotional world of six young young adults.

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a company devised production
With Ash Willison, Khiri Chumtong, Fritz Leonard, Violetta Lupis
Director & Concept: Joshua Spriggs, Rachel Pattison
Costume Design: Gwendolyn Noltes
Lighting Design & Stage: Richard Krutzsch
Stage: Jonathan Bachmann
Sound Design: Lukas Zepf Fight Choreography: Alfred Hartung
Script: Rachel Pattison
Assistant: Theda Grota
Photos: Jörg Metzner

Premiere: 01.10.2025
Playing time: 70 min.
Age recommendation: 13 - 15
https://platypus-Theatre.de/

Memories have tastes, smells, sounds and colors. They taste of plum cake, smell of old paper, sound like rustling telephones or glow in chirping green.
Splitter collects such memorabilia and reassembles them. They are small snippets of life, everyday life and history. They all have one thing in common: they take us back to a country that no longer exists - the GDR.

In the fractures between past and present, in stories, letters and song lyrics, a search begins for traces of a time that is often only tangible in fragments today. Different forms of expression and narrative styles are combined like a collage: Music and text, biographical and historical, mind games and interactive moments - and thus create different approaches to contemporary history.

The development of the play is based on the players' own family stories, which are characterized by experiences of flight and emigration as well as staying (back). And asks: What does the GDR still have to do with us?

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Play: Jana Heilmann, Yasmina Hempel, Marcus Thomas
Director: Anna Vera Kelle
Co-director: Leonie Kopineck
Stage & costumes: Matthias Werner
Music: Marcus Thomas
Theatre pedagogy: Florian Bilbao, Ron Iyamu
Production management: Alexander Schröder

Funded by the Project Fund for Contemporary History and Remembrance Culture, the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship and in cooperation with the Berlin Wall Foundation

Premiere: 15.04.2026
Playing time: 90 min.
Age recommendation: 14+
https://www.Theatre-strahl.de/