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"Auf der Straße" looks at the issue of homelessness in Berlin. What happens to a person who loses their home and thus their shelter? To what extent does the loss of housing signify a loss of subsistence?

If the ancient theatre was able to create complex and independent female characters two and a half thousand years ago – what has gone wrong between then and now?

This feminist double project explores images of present-day femininity, emancipation and female self-assertion.

In Die Verdammten, Visconti wanted to create a modern-day Macbeth. What emerged was the disturbing analysis of a corrupted industrialist family that tied its destiny inseparably to the success of their company and to politics.

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.