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Following the flood of cruel dictators brought forth by the 20th century, Macbeth joins Hamlet in the array of archetypal characters. His will to power is spurred on to the point where he has reached a position he can no longer fill.

If you are sleeping on a pull-out sofa in your ex-wife’s garage and your own son only communicates with you in grunts, it’s high time for a change of scenery. Fifty-year-old Wheeler, caustic but likeable, has hit rock-bottom.

The credo of "From the freedom of science towards the ethics of science!" describes the shift of Bertolt Brecht’s interest in the subject matter of "Galilei".

From the Fall of the Berlin Wall up to his death in 1995, the life of playwright Heiner Müller appears like a race against accelerated time – a self-experiment in times of changing eras.

Doctor, historian and writer Rainald Goetz etched himself into the memories of a whole generation of theatre and literature enthusiasts with one particular performance: At the 1983 Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition, he cut his forehead with a razorbla

“Kriegsbeute” tells the story of the demise of the arms manufacturing family Bloch.

In a taxi, Klara meets a mysterious stranger. She invites him into her garden. He stays indefinitely as a guest. Since he rarely speaks, they call him “Blue”, after the colour of his jacket. What is strange? Is Blue a stranger?

The stories of the naughty boys Max and Moritz have not always been beyond dispute: After their publications, they were banned for young people of less than 18 years of age in some regions.