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time:
2026
16:00
Freie Produktion
Concept, Project Management Eva Streit
How to archive a memory?How to archive feelings? soft archives explores textiles as collective archives and carriers of memory.In open crafting sessions, participants and the artistic team investigate how longing, belonging, and lived experiences can be woven into a material—how they inscribe themselves and intertwine, and what emerges in the shared act of making while hands are busy. The growing…
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time:
2026
19:30
Theater Willy Praml
Direction, Text Adaptation, Stage Michael Weber
80 years after the end of the war – there remain things in the world that are unforgivable. Things that a country like Germany should never forgive itself for, never claim the mercy of forgiveness.Because only then can there be no forgetting. In the 1980s, it was still painful to travel as a German to France, Poland, or the Netherlands.…
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time:
2026
17:00
Freie Produktion
Artistic Direction Carlos Franke
A community of loners. Learning from one another how to be without others. Living together by leaving each other alone. Could this work? A constellation of soloists illuminates a utopia where such an attempt succeeds. They tell of its inner contradictions, its anarchic freedom, its struggle with social pressure from without. They tell of this without speaking, and they sing…
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time:
2026
19:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Oboe & Elektronics Patrícia Pinheiro
We are drifting further and further away from our feelings, ignoring the voices within us and seeking answers outside ourselves, as if they were somewhere far away. But what if we found the courage to move beyond pure reason—and to look at the world, both inside and outside, with open curiosity?Perhaps we would discover how many voices are waiting to…
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time:
2026
20:00
Freie Produktion
Artistic Direction Carlos Franke
A community of loners. Learning from one another how to be without others. Living together by leaving each other alone. Could this work? A constellation of soloists illuminates a utopia where such an attempt succeeds. They tell of its inner contradictions, its anarchic freedom, its struggle with social pressure from without. They tell of this without speaking, and they sing…
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time:
2025
20:00
Theater Willy Praml
Cast Reinhold Behling, Irene Buresch, Gisela Eiffert, Camilla Fiumara, Jakob Gail, Muawia Harb, Birgit Heuser, Johannes Christopher Maier, Maria Niesen, Mila Söntgen, Anna Staab, Michael Weber
JESUS D’AMOUR, GEB.OThe Christmas Story according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Theater Willy Praml has created its very own nativity play. Based on the four Gospels, director Willy Praml retells the well-known story in a new way. The birth of two boys, Jesus and John, leads to political chaos, and the state threatens to collapse. King Herod learns…
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time:
2025
20:00
Theater Willy Praml
Cast Reinhold Behling, Irene Buresch, Gisela Eiffert, Camilla Fiumara, Jakob Gail, Muawia Harb, Birgit Heuser, Johannes Christopher Maier, Maria Niesen, Mila Söntgen, Anna Staab, Michael Weber
JESUS D’AMOUR, GEB.OThe Christmas Story according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Theater Willy Praml has created its very own nativity play. Based on the four Gospels, director Willy Praml retells the well-known story in a new way. The birth of two boys, Jesus and John, leads to political chaos, and the state threatens to collapse. King Herod learns…
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time:
2025
17:00
Naxos Hallenkonzerte
Trio Evviva! Anouk Krüger, Jasmin Röder, Sina Bayer – Renaissance-Flutes
92nd Naxos Hall Concert As one of the septem artes liberales (the seven liberal arts), music has drawn inspiration from mathematical relationships since the Middle Ages—through rhythmic proportions, intervallic combinations, and counterpoint. In doing so, music amplifies the mystical meaning of numbers. This program brings together works from the Renaissance (1400–1600) by composers such as Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ciconia, John…
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time:
2025
20:00
Theater Willy Praml
Cast Reinhold Behling, Irene Buresch, Gisela Eiffert, Camilla Fiumara, Jakob Gail, Muawia Harb, Birgit Heuser, Johannes Christopher Maier, Maria Niesen, Mila Söntgen, Anna Staab, Michael Weber
JESUS D’AMOUR, GEB.OThe Christmas Story according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Theater Willy Praml has created its very own nativity play. Based on the four Gospels, director Willy Praml retells the well-known story in a new way. The birth of two boys, Jesus and John, leads to political chaos, and the state threatens to collapse. King Herod learns…
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time:
2025
20:00
Gastspiel
Choreography, Concept, Stage, Sound design, performers Quindell Orton
Making of a ManLecture Performance in English with German surtitles A dancer, a projection screen, a live camera, a pair of silicone abs, and the question:How does a body “make” masculinity? Who is allowed to make masculinity, and what potential lies in shaking the seemingly carved-in-stone codes of masculinity? Through pop culture, politics, and personal interviews, Making of a Man…
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time:
2025
20:00
Gastspiel
Choreography, Concept, Stage, Sound design, performers Quindell Orton
Making of a ManLecture Performance in English with German surtitles A dancer, a projection screen, a live camera, a pair of silicone abs, and the question:How does a body “make” masculinity? Who is allowed to make masculinity, and what potential lies in shaking the seemingly carved-in-stone codes of masculinity? Through pop culture, politics, and personal interviews, Making of a Man…
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time:
2025
20:00
Theater Willy Praml
Cast Reinhold Behling, Irene Buresch, Gisela Eiffert, Camilla Fiumara, Jakob Gail, Muawia Harb, Birgit Heuser, Johannes Christopher Maier, Maria Niesen, Mila Söntgen, Anna Staab, Michael Weber
JESUS D’AMOUR, GEB.OThe Christmas Story according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Theater Willy Praml has created its very own nativity play. Based on the four Gospels, director Willy Praml retells the well-known story in a new way. The birth of two boys, Jesus and John, leads to political chaos, and the state threatens to collapse. King Herod learns…
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time:
2025
20:00
Theater Willy Praml
Cast Reinhold Behling, Irene Buresch, Gisela Eiffert, Camilla Fiumara, Jakob Gail, Muawia Harb, Birgit Heuser, Johannes Christopher Maier, Maria Niesen, Mila Söntgen, Anna Staab, Michael Weber
JESUS D’AMOUR, GEB.OThe Christmas Story according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Theater Willy Praml has created its very own nativity play. Based on the four Gospels, director Willy Praml retells the well-known story in a new way. The birth of two boys, Jesus and John, leads to political chaos, and the state threatens to collapse. King Herod learns…
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time:
2025
20:00
ELEGANZ AUS REFLEX
With: Mariann Yar, Judith Altmeyer
How much adaptation to society is necessary, and at what point do I lose myself? The exploration of the history of antisemitism and the lives of German Jewish women, begun by Eleganz aus Reflex, is continued with the work I Am Not a Case. At the center stands the life of the Frankfurt-born Bertha Pappenheim. In a choreographed spoken theater…
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time:
2025
14:00
Theater Willy Praml
Duration 3 hours
For centuries, storytelling has held a central place in the collective memory of the Levant, and the Hakawati was the undisputed master of the evening gatherings. The Hakawati was not merely a storyteller; he opened the gateway to other worlds, building bridges between history and fiction, between reality and legend. Theater Willy Praml revives this tradition with its Syrian ensemble…
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time:
2025
20:00
ELEGANZ AUS REFLEX
With: Mariann Yar, Judith Altmeyer
How much adaptation to society is necessary, and at what point do I lose myself? The exploration of the history of antisemitism and the lives of German Jewish women, begun by Eleganz aus Reflex, is continued with the work I Am Not a Case. At the center stands the life of the Frankfurt-born Bertha Pappenheim. In a choreographed spoken theater…
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time:
2025
20:00
ELEGANZ AUS REFLEX
With: Mariann Yar, Judith Altmeyer
How much adaptation to society is necessary, and at what point do I lose myself? The exploration of the history of antisemitism and the lives of German Jewish women, begun by Eleganz aus Reflex, is continued with the work I Am Not a Case. At the center stands the life of the Frankfurt-born Bertha Pappenheim. In a choreographed spoken theater…
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time:
2025
20:00
ELEGANZ AUS REFLEX
With: Mariann Yar, Judith Altmeyer
How much adaptation to society is necessary, and at what point do I lose myself? The exploration of the history of antisemitism and the lives of German Jewish women, begun by Eleganz aus Reflex, is continued with the work I Am Not a Case. At the center stands the life of the Frankfurt-born Bertha Pappenheim. In a choreographed spoken theater…
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time:
2025
14:00
Theater Willy Praml
Duration 3 hours
For centuries, storytelling has held a central place in the collective memory of the Levant, and the Hakawati was the undisputed master of the evening gatherings. The Hakawati was not merely a storyteller; he opened the gateway to other worlds, building bridges between history and fiction, between reality and legend. Theater Willy Praml revives this tradition with its Syrian ensemble…
Infos
time:
2025
20:00
ELEGANZ AUS REFLEX
With: Mariann Yar, Judith Altmeyer
How much adaptation to society is necessary, and at what point do I lose myself? The exploration of the history of antisemitism and the lives of German Jewish women, begun by Eleganz aus Reflex, is continued with the work I Am Not a Case. At the center stands the life of the Frankfurt-born Bertha Pappenheim. In a choreographed spoken theater…
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