Overview

July 08 to August 15, 2021

Premiere

At the centre of the new show produced by BAR JEDER VERNUNFT you will find the music of a man who with his band – and with his unmistakable, high voice – gave the endless repertoire of pop music numerous hits. We are talking about Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.   “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”, “Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)”, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and “Grease” are only a...

August 19 & October 25, 2020

Florian Paul and ‘die Kapelle der letzten Hoffnung’ (The Choir of Last Resort) tell their stories in strong, vivid pictures that remain in the memory for some time. Somewhere between nostalgia and inquisitiveness, between the waltz and punk rock, between pop and chanson there are songs about the fear of being lonely, about remorse, jealousy and the comfort of remembering.  This newcomer band...

August 23 & October 11, 2021

This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required.

August 25, September 26 & October 24, 2021

Brüning and Betancor have been bringing the German language to new melodic heights for decades and ICH MEIN DICH sees them present their matrix on stage. Jazz standards by Monk, Miles Davis, Billy Strayhorn, Annie Ross and others. Betancor‘s tailor-made versions and the complementary compositions by East German Jazz legend Uschi Brüning, with Christian von der Goltz and Martin Klingeberg on...

September 06 to 07, 2021

The press and the public are of one mind: hardly any other artist comes as close to David Bowie as Sven Ratzke. Bowie personally gave Ratzke his permission to avail of his entire works. The resulting STARMAN tour was a great success.  Ratzke is now venturing once again into the universe of this musical legend – different, intimate, with only Ratzke’s voice and a virtuoso on the piano...

September 15 to 19, 2021

She is groove and jazz and blues, she is humour and cabaret and comedy. She has been called a miracle voice or exceptional vocals, vocal acrobat or outstanding singer, her voice has been compared to Nina Hagen, Janis Joplin or Zarah Leander – all of this is true and still it is not enough to describe this wonder of nature. She dances, sings, screams and groans, she grunts, stomps and...

September 20 & November 22, 2021

This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required.

September 25, 2021

Alfred Hitchcock? A case for Jens Wawrczeck! The actor and dubbing artist achieved cult status in his role as Detective Peter Shaw in The Three ??? radio play series. In his reading series “Hitch and I”, he indulges in his greatest passion: Hitchcock and the literature that “inspired the films”. He reveals those invisible entities – the novels and tales behind the successful films.  We...

September 27, October 18 & November 29, 2020

Tales of sexual deviancy from the man from Manchester. Adrift in a world of Beethoven and burlesque, Jack Woodhead and his four-piece band invite you on his musical journey from concert pianist to cabaret star.

September 28 & October 26, 2021

Irmgard Knef, Germany’s most mature and oldest cabaret singer and old-school comedienne celebrates her 95th birthday with a new musical evening: Barrier-free.  Hildegard, who has long since taken leave of her sister Irmgard, would be proud of the tough perseverance of her little sister in spirit. The believable presentation of the made-up relative Irmgard Knef is delivered, as always, by the...

September 29 & November 15, 2021

Erik Leuthäuser is the most recent “new recruit” at the BAR JEDER VERNUNFT. The young singer, already a well-known name in certain circles, with his dreamily beautiful voice, together with his on-stage guests, presents his unique musical concept somewhere between modern chanson, pop and serene jazz.  With his sensitive singing style, he elevates the German language to a wondrous level,...

September 30 to October 03, 2021

Premiere

Andreas Rebers is one of German cabaret’s top artists – musically ironic, evilly witty, black-humoured, very intelligent – absolutely fantastic.  In his new programme, Rebers sings chansons by the German songwriter and protest singer Franz-Josef Degenhardt. 

October 19 to 23, December 05 to 12, 2021

Tim Fischer has absolutely come into his own. He is a shrill diva and a thin-skinned chanson singer par excellence, staging a small play with every song and divulging something of himself every time. Future classics come unashamedly next to old and very old songs. He offers us a full-bodied, high-spirited repertoire and intoxicates us with absolutely riveting chansons, including those from Edith...

22. & 23. Oktober / 26. & 27. November 2021

Die Gl’Amouresque is a Berlin-based burlesque and cabaret act with vintage charm and a modern twist. Four professional dancers bring their talents to the stage, including: fire, film, song and more. Seductive, playful and classy, ‚Die Gl’Amouresque‘ will take the audience on a journey through the golden years in Burlesque.

October 27 - 30, 2021

Rebecca Carrington and Colin Brown, are the British dream couple of musical comedy. To celebrate the fruits of their 10 years of working together, they are performing a perfectly formed "Best of" on stage. As always, Rebecca is beautiful, clever and very funny while Colin remains cool, smart and very vocal. Joe, the third member of the band, is old. And a cello. With his bow they span the entire...

November 02 - 07, 2021

It sometimes seems like it’s impossible to have Kurt Weill without Bertolt Brecht. However, the creative work of the Jewish composer who was born in Dessau, matured to become an artist in 1920s Berlin, and fled from the Nazis is much broader than The Threepenny Opera or Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. In America, where Weill lived from 1935 until his death in 1950, he wrote musicals and...

November 09 to 21, 2021

Katharina Thalbach is a firmly established icon in the theatre, opera and film scene as an actress and director: Andreja Schneider is a firmly established icon of the Bar jeder Vernunft as an actressand singer. Together they present the classic "Boy Meets Girl" plot as the beginning of a love story. One eveningon her way home, the positive, carefree, forever young Loreley (Schneider)...

November 30 to December 04, 2021

Maren Kroymann is a very well known and respected actress in Germany, who has been performing her songs with great success for many years. For her 60th birthday, Maren Kroymann has also called her new show "In My Sixties". She dedicates it to the music of the 60s with an unbiased view, uninhibited panache and fresh interest on the occasion of her pending personal anniversary of "50 years of...