Overview
November 29, 2023 to January 07, 2024
Premiere
Gayle Tufts
Please Don't Stop the Music
Gayle Tufts has been living in Germany for over 30 years. A German citizen since 2017, the American-born actress has firmly established herself in the German entertainment scene and in the heart of Berlin with her ravishing "Dinglish". "Dinglish" – a poetically mix of German and English, with which she elegantly bridges the gap between her hometown of Brockton via Buffalo, Broadway and...
December 18, 2023 / January 30 & 31, 2024
Carrington-Brown
Best of
Rebecca Carrington and Colin Brown, are the British dream couple of musical comedy. To celebrate the fruits of their 15 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...
December 27, 2023 / May 29 to June 02, 2024
Tim Fischer
Tigerfest
On the 100th birthday of Georg Kreisler | Musical direction: Oliver Potratz
For the 100th birthday of the king of black humour, Tim Fischer finally lets Georg Kreisler's cats of prey out of the bag again! Under the musical direction of bassist Oliver Potratz, with Sebastian Weiß on piano and Hauke Renken on vibraphone, Tim Fischer brings Kreisler's figures to life in his musical homage and, as a kind of medium, tickles the absurd comedy out of the songs with their...
January 09 to 14, 2024
Cora Frost & Tim Fischer
Niemand liebt dich so wie ich – Berühmte Duette
On piano: Thomas Dörschel
Great couples of music history have to serve when Cora Frost and Tim Fischer duet again on stage after 28 years. Erika Köth & Hermann Prey, Fritzi Massary & Max Pallenberg, Hilde Hildebrandt & Gustav Gründgens, Anneliese Rothenberger & Rudolf Schock, Cindy & Bert, Marlene Dietrich & Margo Lion, Baccara, the Wildecker Herzbuben – no one gets away scot-free. Hollywood...
January 17, 2024
Etta Scollo
Ora
With her programme "Ora", the wonderful Sicilian singer Etta Scollo and star producer Taketo Gohara have created an album that is poetically and politically touching. "Ora" convinces with profound, committed poetry, and the musical ladle dips into many old and new sources. Etta and her band thus create a convincing statement against the lethargy of these days, against isolation and "out of...
January 22 & April 29, 2024
Florian Wagner
Funk You
His virtuoso piano playing is a reminiscent of a “mixture of Billy Joel and Keith Jarrett“ (Münchner Merkur), his lyrics cause “immediate fits of laughter in the audience“ (Sächsische Zeitung) and “he sings as beautifully as Michael Bublé“ (His Mom). In “Funk You“ the pianist and singer explains how Mozart would have written "Atemlos" and whether Beethoven was really deaf.
January 23, 2024
Irmgard Knef
Barrierefrei
mit 95 noch dabei
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...
January 28 & March 05, 2024
Premiere
Acoustic Instinct
„Jetzt muss alles raus“
A perfectly attuned duo transforms the stage of the BAR JEDER VERNUNFT into an exploded orchestra pit: Acoustic Instinct combine the art of human beatboxing with elements from the fields of a cappella singing, slapstick, comedy, acting, pantomime and improvisation. Paul Brenning and Julian Knörzer present extraordinary sounds and original song ideas with their surprising expressive...
February 04, 2024
„Der Mond hatte frei“
Atrin Madani singt von Liebe
On the piano: Paul Hankinson
Atrin Madani and Paul Hankinson, two world travelers in music: one a young jazz singer from Schöneberg with Persian roots and a dreamlike voice, the other, delightfully remembered by insiders as Montmorensy, a musical genius on the piano from Australia. Both are driven by a great love of love songs. Songs by Schubert, chansons by Aznavour, songs by Burt Bacharach - they present the last...
February 06 to 11, 2023
Anna Mateur & The Beuys
Kaoshüter
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...
March 01 to 03. & 12 to 15, 2024
Georgette Dee
Georgette Dee singt
On the piano: Terry Truck
"The language of music has always been for me the greatest thing we humans have," says Georgette Dee, "music can rise above all boundaries, can penetrate everything that seems impenetrable, can create an understanding where before there was a lack of understanding - of myself, of others. Music gives me the opportunity to become happy or sad, to look at the bad and the good, to catch my breath in...
March 06 to 09, 2024
German Premiere
Rebecca Carrington
Me and my Cello 2.0
With unmistakable British humour and her one-woman-and-one-cello show, Rebecca Carrington takes a musical journey through her own music career with all its highs and lows. Italian operas are translated in a very special way, Johann Sebastian Bach unceremoniously becomes Sting, she sings and plays her own Bollywood video, and if she has had the dream of jazzing with Miles Davis for years,...
March 10, 2024
Brüning & Betancor
ICH MEIN DICH - Jazzstandards Germanized
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 Willi Kellers on piano,...
March 11, 2024
Irmgard Knef
Eine wie keine
Every day should be International Women's Day, thinks Irmgard Knef: the woman who sings and swings and boxes and bites her way through life like no other. A woman who has gone her own long way – since 1948 without her famous and already deceased sister Hildegard. This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required.
March 25, 2024
Sven Ratzke
„Where Are We Now“
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 (Jetse...
March 27 to April 21, 2024
RELAXEZ-VOUS!
Die Geschwister Pfister im Sitzen
With Ursli and Toni Pfister, Fräulein Schneider and the Jo Roloff Quartett
They are adorably funny, infectiously perfect and entertainers of the rarest calibre, they stand for upbeat hits, howling schmaltz and tongue-in-cheek charm: Die Geschwister Pfister. Die Geschwister Pfister have been reliable for over 30 years. They defy the spirit of the times and steadfastly conquer the small as well as the big stages, singing and jumping, graceful as ever, aged with dignity...
May 03 to 05, 2024
Katharine Mehrling & Band
AU BAR
Katharine Mehrling says: Merci BAR, Merci Berlin! Since her BAR debut as Sally Bowles in CABARET, the exceptional artist with the "slightly smoky, a hint of absinthe voice" (rbb Kultur) has become addicted to the crackling atmosphere of the Spiegelzelt. Her first, acclaimed solo programme "Bonsoir Katharine" premiered here in 2009, followed by "Piaf au Bar", "Mehrling au Bar", "Vive la Vie" and...
May 07 to 10, 2024
Vladimir Korneev
Vladimir Korneev singt Edith Piaf
LE DROIT D’AIMER – Das Recht zu lieben
Vladimir Korneev's homage to the great artist celebrates her cry for the right to love, which could hardly be more urgent and topical in today's world affairs. 60 years after Edith Piaf's death, the actor and singer interprets her life's work in all the colours of his rich, nuanced and expressive baritone: A woman who was not a victim, but lived and loved authentically and radically according to...
July 11 to September 01, 2024
The BAR JEDER VERNUNFT presents
Oh What A Night!
The thrilling live show with hits from Grease to Dirty Dancing
At the centre of the show 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 few of the songs in Frankie Valli’s...
February 05 to March 02, 2025
Rosa von Praunheims
Die Bettwurst – Das Musical!
With Anna Mateur and Heiner Bomhard | Director: Rosa von Praunheim
Rosa von Praunheim is staging his own cult film from 1971 as a musical in the anniversary year of the BAR JEDER VERNUNFT: Die Bettwurst. In the anniversary year of BAR JEDER VERNUNFT, the renowned director, producer, author and activist of the LGBTQ movement is directing a musical for the first time shortly before his 80th birthday. The love story between Luzi, of Polish origin from Kiel, and...