Overview

August 02 & October 18, 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...

August 10, 2020

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

August 24, 2020

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....

September 01 to 03, 2020

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...

September 04 to 06 & November 20, 2020

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

September 07, 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...

September 08 to 13, 2020

Tim Fischer and his pianist Thomas Dörschel are finally back on stage together again after many years and embrace a musical role that looks back on the good old songs. From their repertoire “Na so was”, “Lieder eines armen Mädchens” (Friedrich Hollaender), “Walzerdelirium” and others, they select the most beautiful chanson pearls and create a wild mix that reminds us once again how enchanting and...

September 15 to 20, 2020

Jacques Brel passed away at the early age of fifty. But his songs live on. “Ne me quitte pas” and “Amsterdam” and many other songs of his are music legends. The French actor and singer, Dominique Horwitz, brings Brel's hits as well as treasures that have never been performed, back to life so lovingly, vivaciously and emphatically. He slips into the skin of a great artist, yet still stays himself....

September 21, 2020

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

September 22 to 27, 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...

October 06 to 11, 2020

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

October 09 & December 12, 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...

October 12 & 13, 2020

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...

October 15 to 17, 2020

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

October 24 & 25, 2020

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...

October 26, 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...

October 27 to 31, 2020

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...

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...

November 07, 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...

November 24 to December 13, 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...

December 15 to 20, 2020

This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required. On Piano: Tilmann Albrecht

January 19, 2021

Bernd Begemann: a German Morrissey, an acoustic Boy Wonder, his work is contemporary musical history in Germany. His face in a thousand mirrors – here comes the one-man Rock’n’Roll circus Bernd Begemann: founder and a giant of the famous Hamburg School, initiator and member of various bands, TV shows, blogs and other conceivable and inconceivable, but always legendary formats. A man, a guitar,...