Overview

January 22 & March 30, 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...

January 21, 23 to 26, 2020

Berlin Premiere

Rebecca Carrington and Colin Brown have come up with a turbulent operetta that not only examines the hair-raising motives in the ancient Persian tale, but also takes a tongue-in-cheek look at current European politics.  Sometimes nothing happens for decades, and then an entire century passes in a week! This is the fate suffered by cellist Carrie Puddleton and the singer Lawrence Longstaff,...

January 27 & April 27, 2020

Premiere

When Wilhelmine sings, you know right away that she’s from Berlin. It reveals itself in her direct way of speaking. In the attitude in her voice. Wilhelmine speaks about everything that goes through her head. And this “everything” doesn’t always show only the easy side of life.  Her songs reflect her freedom and being in love as much as they do her experiences with addiction and resentment....

January 29, February 29, April 24 & June 20, 2020

Late Night Show

Welcome to Hotel Gl’Amouresque - a wild mixture of Burlesque, Boylesque, Cabaret, Drag and Artistic. Ex-Showgirls of The Friedrichstadt Palast create Smash Hit Berlin Burlesque Show! Hailing from all corners of the world, these women met whilst working on the world's biggest stage at Berlin's prestigious show palace. With a bit of British sass, French romance, Belgian kink and American glitz they...

January 30 to February 09 / April 20, 2020

Premiere

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...

February 03 / June 20 & 21, 2020

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

February 10 & 11, 2020

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...

February 12 to 16, 2020

Premiere

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...

February 17, 2020

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

February 18 to 23, 2020

A concert evening with Jacques Brel-Chansons in German language. On piano: Hawo Bleich

February 24 & 29 / March 01, 2020

A rakish-looking bunch enter the stage. The Norwegian Magne Håvard Brekke studied acting in East Berlin, worked at the Volksbühne with Castorf and Marthaler, and now he has brought his band along.  Ljodahått sets both old and contemporary Norwegian poems to music, ranging from Edda and Henrik Ibsen to Tarjei Vesaas and Olav H. Hauge – in a mixture of different musical styles that is as...

February 25 to 28, 2020

Christine Bovill cherrypicks some of the most celebrated songs and stories from the Jazz Age - the era of Prohibition, women's voting rights, radio, flappers, vamps, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Lindburg and Bessie Smith. A decade of heroes and villains; of sex scandals; literary giants and criminal low lives - all beautifully bound in the seductive rhythms of...

March 03 to 08, 2020

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. 

March 11 to 26, 2020

Kurt Weill - revisted

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...

March 14 & June 08, 2020

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

March 15 & May 03, 2020

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...

March 16 & May 24, 2020

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,...

March 23, 2020

The male voice choir Walhalla zum Seidlwirt was founded at the end of 2014 by six students at the Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ in Berlin. Their harmonious voices conquer hearts, move audiences to tears and inspire never ending joy. The young men from Walhalla zum Seidlwirt dedicate themselves to their art with passion and devotion. They are just so international (Turkish, Israeli,...

March 27 & 28, 2020

German Premiere

Cult British cabaret duo Frisky & Mannish have travelled all over the world with their unique brand of pop music parody, appearing at nine Edinburgh Fringes, the Sydney Opera House, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe Festival, New Zealand International Arts Festival, New York, Singapore and Hong Kong.  They have toured the UK more times than they care to remember, headlined in...

March 31, 2020

Berlin Premiere

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...

April 03 to 05, 2020

Siegfried & Joy: These two loveable guys have catapulted themselves from the magic underground into the heart of the serious magic scene within a very short time. And it wasn't a trick. With amazing magic and unbridled humour, they are currently performing what is probably the most entertaining magic show in the country. When these two bolts of charm make objects float, perform mystical...

April 06 & June 15, 2020

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

April 09 to 24, 2020

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” und “Grease” are only a...

April 30 to May 02, 2020

“Diva gut” was the name of the legendary show in which Georgette Dee & Cora Frost last appeared together on stage 20 years ago. Berlin's most famous underground divas are still good - if not even better than ever! At last, these two heavenly creatures have a new, sparkling show named “DEE FROST WELT-Lieder”, which is based on their very own special view of the world. The world in which the...

May 12 to 17, 2020

Is it chanson, comedy, cabaret, concert or a show? You could call it SalonHipHop and CabaretCool but they still don't quite capture the genre of the all-encompassing gifts and talents of the Thomas Pigor and Benedikt Eichhorn duo. They are extremely political and intellectual, hilariously funny and witty, they broach love and despair, the restrictions of human existence as well as the little...

May 16, 2020

A night full of inspiration, new perspectives and the “obligatory” portion of naked skin: the first Boylesque Drag Festival Berlin. Berlin has always been a melting pot and a cultural pioneer in Germany. And Boylesque, which is also lovingly referred to as (male) striptease with a storyline already delighted male and female audiences in the late 18th century. In the early 1920s, this art form...

May 18 & 19, 2020

Two pianists who could hardly be more different: Paul Cibis already had private piano lessons as a child. He wore spotless white gloves and regularly won the German music competition for youth “Jugend Musiziert”. And at the second of the two adjacent pianos: Andreas Kern, who taught himself piano in a bar. He also already played Chopin at 12, because the bar owner wanted him to. But at the same...

June 03 to 17 / Nov 04 to 18, 2020

A good-fun expedition through the now-lost Wild West as a place of longing, where every child’s dream of being a lasso-throwing cowboy on horseback comes true.  Whether drawing a knife, or pulling swinging a colt: Meret Becker, Anna Fischer, Anna Mateur, Andreja Schneider and Katharina Thalbach are “The 5 Glorious Seven”, the coolest cowboys since Clint Eastwood and Yul Brynner. Please note...