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This play deals with the violent displacement of the Protestants who resisted their forced conversion by the authoritarian Catholic regime of the Hapsburgs in the 19th century.

Taking his own associative exploration of Felix Krull, the epitome of the conman-character, at Berliner Ensemble’s Grosses Haus as a point of departure, Alexander Eisenach continues to investigate the Krull-principle at Kleines Haus, a principle t

“Let the world bow to me or break”, says Ubu. He believes in neither democracy, equal rights nor climate change – all that counts is his insatiable hunger.

The German post-war “economic miracle” required a large and low-pay labour force from abroad. They were called “Gastarbeiter (guest workers)”, a derogatory general term.

Berlin on the eve of Hitler’s seizure of power; the metropolis is lurching towards its doom. Fabian, a melancholy yet humorous observer, wanders through this juggernaut of a city that seems to be amusing itself into oblivion.

Damascus in 2011: a vibrant city with lively shopping streets, gentrified residential neighbourhoods and a pulsating cultural scene and night-life. And residents who are organising peaceful demonstrations for reforms.

From April 2019 to February 2020, the German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe considered a long-simmering, unresolved debate: medically assisted suicide.

On 15 January 1974, a bed goes up in flames at the East Berlin hospital Charité. The patient who dies in this fire, caused by a burning cigarette is Ruth Berlau, Danish communist and Bertolt Brecht’s lover.