Overview

October 04 to 16, 2022

Premiere

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...

October 10 & November 07, 2022 / January 17, 2023

When the real-life fictional couple are not having a highly entertaining conversation, they sing and dance self-composed songs, play on the light organ and perform a smartphone show. A unique form of cabaret.

October 17, 2022

Joab Nist has been collecting quirky note messages in Berlin for many years and founded his collection NOTES OF BERLIN on 10.10.2010. With over 500,000 subscribers, it is now one of the most widely read blogs in this country. In April, the BAR JEDER VERNUNFT presents an exquisite NOTES OF BERLIN live show with the most beautiful, bizarre and funniest notes from Berlin and thus an unseriously...

October 18 to 23, 2022

After nine successful and award-winning programmes plus various side projects, it would now be time for the anniversary edition - but instead of looking back, the two recognised experts of elegant spoken word are leaning pretty far out of their time window and presenting: Volume X.

October 24, 2022 & January 23, 2023

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 25, 2022

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...

October 26 to 29, 2022

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

October 30, 2022

"The popette who made Privat Modern into her first stage programme at the Bar jeder Vernunft 30 years ago has become a high priestess of the whimsical art song. She lays down captivating variations in beige with Clara Haberkamp on the keys and Natascha Zickerick on the tuba: Heillose shock sighs in untenable times." – rbb info radio 

October 31, 2022 / January 16, 2023

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. 

November 01 & 02, 2022

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 03, 2022

eat! berlin – The Gourmet Festival 2022

Checkpoint first launched online in November 2014, and now, after eight years and more than 2,400 editions, the daily morning newsletter is just as much a part of Berlin as the Goldelse and the Telespargel (does anyone even still call them that?). Lorenz Maroldt, the editor-in-chief of the Tagesspiegel, is the creator and spiritual father of the project. Initially, he wrote the most amusing,...

November 04 to 06, 2022

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...

November 08 to 13, 2022

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...

November 14, 2022

"Sisters of Comedy - Nachgelacht" is not a women's quota gala, no male bashing, simply a grandiose, brilliant show with everything Germany's bubbling female comedy scene has to offer. For him & her and everything in between. After all, humour is for everyone! In German

November 15, 2022

“I rather like to be slugged, to walk away from the poem with old wounds reopened… let the poem bruise me.” Anne Sexton Jack Woodhead’s new show “Reflections” is bruising, wounding cabaret in all its rabid, raucous, ribald splendor.  Did Jack murder his mother? Perhaps he’s just a little drunk, just a little lonely, sipping a tipple while sitting in a moth-eaten armchair in a cold flat in a...

November 16 to 20, 2022

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...

November 22 to 26, 2022

Gentle guitar sounds, accompanied by Klaus Hoffmann's voice, expressive and enchanting; catchy melodies in radiant acoustic arrangements between chanson, jazz, latin and pop, interwoven with his poetic language. The fifteen new songs on the album tell their stories in the so typical Hoffmann way in wildly romantic images.

December 19, 2022

Irmgard Knef and Christmas - they go together like chilli peppers in gingerbread.  Anecdotes, poems, autobiographical, bizarre and probably the most original Christmas story since the Gospel according to Luke make this entertaining programme an enjoyable, fun and musical evening. Lyrics in German.

December 27, 2022

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...

January 18 to 20,2023

Three young, up-and-coming artists who belong to the emergent Berlin scene present an extensive repertoire in their magical a-cappella programme, ranging from Lykke Li, Rihanna and Emiliana Torrini, and from the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren to Metallica. Claudia Graue, Marcus Melzwig and Christopher Nell are bringing to the stage a show full of acoustic surprise attacks, bringing together...

January 24, 2023

A German Morrissey, an acoustic grab bag: the one-man rock 'n' roll circus Bernd Begemann. Founder and giant of the Hamburg School, inventor and operator of various bands, TV shows, blogs and other legendary formats.   This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required.

January 23, 2023

Ingenious and radical - his critics put him in the same league as Morgenstern, Ringelnatz and Kreisler. In his commentaries, Krämer is capricious, in his songs sweet to coarse. His musical vocabulary ranges from swing to Viennese school.  This show is not suitable for non-German speaking visitors as German language knowledge is required.

January 27 to February 03, 2023

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...

September 08 to October 02, 2022 / February 09 to 23, 2023

Rosa von Praunheims

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...

February 13, 2023

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.