Premiere on April 19 directed by Andrej Woron Fassbinder’s play The Burning Village (Das brennende Dorf), which is based in the seventeenth-century drama Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega, is being presented in the current theater season by the Stadttheater in Constance. RWF wrote the play, which is a very free interpretation of the original (…)

Mozart’s opera with a revised libretto by Hans Neuenfels In the current season Elisabeth Trissenaar is appearing in the role of the Contessa in three performances of Mozart’s La finta giardiniera at the Staatsoper Berlin. The performances are on April 6, 11 and 19, beginning in each case at 7 p.m. Director Hans Neuenfels has (…)

From April 4 in the Teatro Sala Fontana in Milan The stage version of Veronika Voss, which had its German premiere at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in September 2010, is now opening in Italy. The stage version is based on the film script written by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, which is in turn based on (…)

Premiere on March 22 at the Stadttheater Preparadise Sorry Now was staged for the first time by Munich’s Anti-Theater ensemble almost exactly 44 years ago. Now a new production with clear references to the present and directed by Annette Pullen is opening in Freiburg. In the play, the asymmetry inherent in 2-against-1 constellations and the (…)

A man with two great life’s works Karlheinz Böhm’s last public appearance was in 2011, when he handed over the presidency of the aid organization Menschen für Menschen (People for People) to his wife. Böhm founded the large-scale humanitarian project over 30 years ago, and since then it has been providing important development aid to (…)