Premieres in Germany, France and Belgium To mark the start of the new theater season, we would like to provide fans of RWF’s theater oeuvre with an overview of new and restaged productions in Berlin, Munich, Paris, Dortmund, Bochum, Marburg, Lübeck und Liège. Coming newsletters will include more in-depth information about a number of these (…)

In the service of a brilliant humorist Heinz Meier was born February 17, 1930 in Perwissau in what was then East Prussia. In 1953, while still a university student, he co-founded of the Wallgraben Theater in Freiburg, a private theater that he later owned and ran until 2003. It provided him with a stage on (…)

Theater scholar, educator, psychologist and author Behind every strong person stands another strong person who perhaps makes everything possible in the first place. Wouldn’t it be nice if a series of such relationships could become a human chain? Today we would like to warmly wish Professor Pea Fröhlich a very happy birthday. It was Pea (…)

The grand old man of German television film Zadek, Zadek and then Fassbinder again! Known above all for the roles of the charmeur and grand seigneur he played with such élan for the German TV broadcaster ZDF during the 1980s and 1990s, Karl-Heinz Vosgerau is also an accomplished theater actor. Born in Kiel in 1928, (…)

Katzelmacher was an initiation Doris Mattes died on July 23, 2013, not long before her seventy-fifth birthday. As an actress, she was involved in the foundation of Munich’s action-theater (later the anti-theater), where in April 1968 she appeared in RWF’s production of Katzelmacher, playing the role of Gunda, a woman caught in a lower middle (…)