Since 6 September, Thomas Ostermeier’s stage adaption of THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN, which was premiered in Avignon in summer this year, has been running again at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre. The production is based on the film of the same name by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Based on a script by Pea Fröhlich and Peter Märthesheimer, (…)

On 14 October one of Germany’s few truly international film stars celebrates his seventieth birthday. Udo Kier’s striking face and piercing blue eyes have featured in over 200 films, ranging from art-house to exploitation films as well as big Hollywood productions, in which he has relished a number of villainous roles. With such a body (…)

From 13 September to 17 October, Berlin’s Arsenal cinema is screening a comprehensive retrospective of the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The retrospective is being accompanied by an exhibition in the Martin Gropius Bau which will run until 5 January 2015 and focuses on the Italian director’s relationship with Rome. The exhibition and retrospective also (…)

It is with great pleasure that we bring to the attention of our followers that the wonderful and incomparable Elisabeth Trissenaar will soon perform twice at the Berliner Ensemble: On October 2, she will read Kafka; the flutist Annelie Kronbügel will accompany this program. On November 1 there will be another performance of Heiner Müller’s (…)

Gottfried’s autobiographical novel, Bekenntnisse eines Unerzogenen (Confessions of an Ill-bred Individual), tells the story of a young man born during the Second War World who is taken away from his mother and grows up in children’s homes. His mother later kidnaps him and takes him to Paris, where they are able to live together for (…)