Why did people follow the lies and hate of the NSDAP? Would that be conceivable today? The class starts an experiment: They seek connection through strength, discipline, and community. They become "the wave" - and soon the wave is unstoppable. A new interpretation of the classic by Morton Rhue, more relevant than ever.

The cast includes: Luise Gröschel, Cosma Kuklinsky, River Mundt, Hannah Rieder, Emely Scharf, Sal Schikaneder
Directed by: Danilo Fioriti
Written by: Jochen Strauch
Published by: Rowohlt Theater Verlag

Registration: danilo.fioriti@gmail.com

Richard has won the lottery - many millions. But he says "no to the money" and announces during a dinner at home that he will not collect the lottery winnings. To his surprise, instead of praise and applause, the exact opposite reactions come pouring down on him.

The only thing needed to collect the winnings is the lottery ticket. This fact opens up a battle between him, his wife, his mother, and even his best friend for this "lucky" ticket. How far will the family go?

To what extent does money (greed) determine our lives? This is the question posed by the French author in her darkly comedic play, which captivates through clever dialogues and moral pitfalls.

Warum scheitert die Liebe so oft – und was hat das mit Spätkapitalismus zu tun?

Die Erkenntnisse des Sachcomics „Ich fühl’s nicht“ der schwedischen Künstlerin Liv Strömquist spiegeln drei Performerinnen an ihren eigenen Biografien und Beziehungen. Es wird juicy, gehaltvoll und mind-opening: Zwischen Talkshow-Setting, Live-Zeichnung und persönlichen Liebesgeschichten verhandelt das Kollektiv storytelling engines, wie Selbstoptimierung, Narzissmus und neoliberale Marktlogik in intimste Bereiche des Lebens und der Liebe vordringen. Philosophie trifft Popkultur, persönliche Reflexion trifft kollektives Erleben.

In schnellem Wechsel zwischen Theorie und Intimität entsteht ein Abend über das Verschwinden des Anderen, über Leonardo DiCaprios ewigen Partnerinnenwechsel – und über uns selbst.


FASSUNG / KONZEPT / PERFORMANCE Lucy Wirth / Tjadke Biallowons / Isabella Bartdorff / Tom Schneider OUTSIDE EYE Tom Schneider REGIE Kollektiv storytelling engines

STORYTELLING ENGINES ist ein in Freiburg und München basiertes Künstler*innenkollektiv, verbunden durch einem erweiterten Theaterbegriff, der die Trennung in Sparten durchlässig macht und verschiedene Materialien und Themen zu politisch relevanten Theaterabenden mit feministischem Schwerpunkt verarbeitet.

Ausverkauft. Restkarten ggf. an der Abendkasse

The latest political satire from the MAGDEBURG ZWICKMÜHLE

with Marion Bach, Heike Ronniger and Christoph Deckbar / Oliver Vogt (alternating)

DIRECTED BY: Matthias Brenner

Doors open: 6:30 PM

Ach, wie wunderbar ist es, auf der Bühne zu stehen! Gäbe es nicht das leidige Lampenfieber und die Albträume, in denen man den Text in Endlosschleife wiederholt, um sich dann im falschen Stück wiederzufinden…ohne Kostüm.
Angsthasen gibt es bei den SP!NNERN einige. Da graust es einer vor Mäusen, ein anderer gerät beim Wort Zahnarzt in Schockstarre.
Aber: Zusammen sind wir stark! Mit vereinten Kräften schafft es das Ensemble, so manche Angstgeschichte in eine Mutgeschichte zu verwandeln. Mit Witz, Humor und Zusammenhalt, dem bewährten Rezept der SP!NNER!, lässt sich so manch bedrohlicher Riese auf Zwergengröße schrumpfen. Singend durch die Achterbahn, tanzend zum Chefgespräch – die SP!NNER! surfen durch Mutproben, die mal lebensnah, mal erstaunlich sind, und sie zeigen sich als echte Mutmacher.
Für Menschen ab12 Jahren!

Es spielen: Selina Brambach, Thorsten H. Decker, Katharina Eggert, Camilla Häußler, Klaus Jockers, Sabine Lampertsdörfer, Clemens Lennermann, Marlene Schmalstieg und Birk Spanger
Assistenz und Koordination: Esther Zeisset; persönlicher Mutmacher: Ralph Hartung; FSJ und Assistenz: Emilia Kälber; Inszenierung: Steffi Lackner

an der Abendkasse eventuell Restkarten

Admission: 7:00 PM | Start: 7:30 PM

1 Burger Menu including Fries & 1 Soft Drink + 3 Comedians

🍔 Comedy & Burger – An evening to bite into and laugh out loud! 😂

Welcome to our casually delicious dinner show version! At Comedy & Burger, you can expect handmade signature burgers, a relaxed atmosphere, and plenty of top-notch humor – perfect for everyone who enjoys a laid-back and entertaining experience.

Here's what to expect:

🍔 Gourmet Burger Delight:
Instead of a multi-course menu, this show format features juicy burgers, creatively topped and lovingly prepared. Choose your favorite from four unique options. A taste experience worth a movie, just between bun halves.

😂 3 Comedians – 1 Stage – Loads of Laughs:
Experience three top comedians live, who have already impressed in formats like Quatsch Comedy Club, NightWash, or BrosComedy. There won't be a dry eye in the house!

🍟 Your Burger Selection:

▪️ Warren G – Cheeseburger (also available as a Veggie version)
100% beef patty, ketchup, mustard, pickles, cheddar, caramelized onions.

▪️ 19th Street – Signature Burger
100% beef patty, tartar sauce, tomatoes, iceberg lettuce, cheddar sauce, caramelized onions.

▪️ B-Real – Pimento Cheeseburger
100% beef patty, 100% beef bacon, pimento cheese, mayo, tomatoes.

▪️ Eazy-E – Chick’n Burger
100% double-breaded Chick'n, iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar, tartar sauce.

👨‍🍳 Hospitality Included:
Our experienced service team ensures a completely relaxed atmosphere.

You sit back, laugh, enjoy – we take care of the rest.

Secure your tickets now!
Whether with friends, a date, or colleagues – Comedy & Burger is the perfect mix of delicious food and great entertainment.

Seats are limited, so reserve quickly!

We look forward to an evening full of taste & jokes with you!

Copyright: Comedylovers

Admission: 7:00 PM

Muss das sein, dass die jetzt auch noch ... ? Ja, es muss! Alice Köfer, die Frau der Boygroup "Vocal
Recall" begibt sich erstmalig auf Solopfade. Sie weiß selbst noch nicht, wie der Abend enden wird, doch eins ist sicher: Charmant berlinernd wird sie sich sensationell gelaunt um Kopf und Kragen quasseln. Mal versehentlich philosophisch, mal lustig sinnentleert, wird sich Alice den wirklich wichtigen Fragen des Lebens widmen:
Warum gibt´s in meiner Straße fünf Burgerrestaurants?
Ab wann ist Fallobst tot?
Lohnt sich heute noch eine schöne Unterschrift?
Und warum merke ich mir immer nur die falschen Sachen?

Natürlich werden jede Menge Songs erklingen in einer wilden Mischung aus destruktiver
Liebeslyrik und Stadion-Pop im Garagenformat. Mitgrölen ausdrücklich erwünscht!

Einlass ab 19:30 Uhr

Das Gastspiel wurde leider abgesagt.

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Twelve Before 5 - The Return of Branntwein

Franz Branntwein is back. But only just barely. And not that often anymore. After "The BranntweinSaga – An Old Hope" was performed at the Magdeburg Technology Museum in 2023, and last year it was said "Magdeburg Strikes Back – the Saga's Second Part," there is only the inevitable 3rd part left for the year 2025.
Even though the author team Heiko Herfurth, Sebastian, and Tobias Hengstmann fought against it tooth and nail, the cycle must come to an end. Branntwein must end. After a historical past and a medial present, only a bleak future remains, into which the spirited grouch must venture this year. But we have bigger problems than the future, because that is yet to come. And therefore, our spirited grouch must take care to ensure that the future does not become the present and that everything remains as it has never been.
Accompany our grumbling warrior through various realities and conceivable scenarios of our present, which are caused by the chaotic chaos, which can also be referred to as political reality. Solutions are not his thing, but Branntwein would not be Branntwein if he were not Branntwein. And that’s why one is not enough.
How many digging returns there will be can be seen starting June 5, 2025, at the Magdeburg Technology Museum. Mazze, Malte, and many other unjustly beloved characters will also be present. And Franz Branntwein, the impudent onlooker.

Doors open: 18:00 Uhr

"If there appear to be similarities between the practices of certain journalists and those of the Bild newspaper, then these similarities are neither intentional nor coincidental, but inevitable," begins Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll in his 1974 narrative. He delicately describes the absurdities of reporting, portraying Katharina Blum’s fate as a media spectacle, a precursor to today's age of online public shaming.

Katharina Blum becomes a "person of contemporary history" in the press's attention because she is believed to have helped a wanted criminal escape. Throughout the investigation, her statements are taken out of context, witness reports are misquoted, and her privacy is grossly violated in the public eye until she ultimately shoots a journalist during a planned interview in her apartment.

Warsaw, 1939. The Polski Theater is banned from performing a Nazi farce. Instead, they quickly put on "Hamlet." During the famous monologue “To be or not to be,” the pilot Sobinsky leaves the hall – and goes straight to the dressing room of the leading actress. Her husband, the famous actor Josef Tura, is furious. But when war breaks out on the grand stage of the world and the Polish resistance is in danger, they must stick together.
And suddenly the theater troupe is no longer performing for the audience but for their lives.

The play “Sein oder Nichtsein” – based on the film by Ernst Lubitsch – is about war and Nazi terror. In contrast, there stands the cohesion of a theater ensemble that bravely and cunningly opposes injustice. A plea for civil courage through the means of comedy.

“The film, which premiered in the USA in 1942 by Jewish Berliner Ernst Lubitsch, has become a perceptive document of its time that holds its own against Chaplin's THE GREAT DICTATOR and has already proven over 60 years ago that one can laugh at Nazis without downplaying their crimes.” – Sächsische Zeitung

“One of the best films by Ernst Lubitsch, which, as a biting satire, portrays the henchmen of National Socialism as grotesque actors and honors the acting troupe as tragicomic heroes.”
– Lexikon des internationalen Films

The criminal defense attorney Tessa is very successful. She knows all the tricks to achieve acquittals, even when the evidence seems bleak at first. Her specialty lies in difficult cases such as sexual crimes, by meticulously exposing the prosecution's errors. The legal system is a precious asset, in court, it's not about emotions and morals, and as long as there is no proof of guilt, the presumption of innocence prevails.

In order to master the legal system, Tessa had to work exceptionally hard and overcome the biases of her family. As a result, she now operates perfectly within it. However, one night after a party, her colleague Julian becomes inappropriate towards her. Suddenly, Tessa finds herself on the other side, not defending the sexual offender, but accusing him and having to provide the evidence and arguments that she usually disproves. She feels completely vulnerable in the situation in court, which she normally handles so well. She has lost both her security and her self-confidence, thus falling into the traps that she usually sets for others.

Suzie Miller's award-winning piece asks: How can one prove the guilt of perpetrators while reconciling the rule of law with caring for the victim?

At some point, one must start fulfilling their wishes: This is especially true for Carla, Lili, and Meta, as they don't have much time left. The biggest wish of the three is to go on a luxurious cruise on a steamship. However, just as they were about to bring their savings from their card pot to the bank, it gets robbed. Well, if the bank robbers could do it, they can do it too - only better. And what do they have to lose, except time?!

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The magazine Spiegel calls him a “great storyteller,” and the British Independent compares him to Kafka and Kleist – we are talking about bestseller author Ferdinand von Schirach.

In his new play, he deals with the dilemma that in cases of sexual violence, it is almost always a matter of one person's word against another's. In February 2024, a million viewers watched the television version of this courtroom drama.

Katharina Schlüter, a successful TV presenter, accuses her former lover, the entrepreneur Dr. Christian Tiede, of having raped her. There are no witnesses for this crime, and so the criminal trial revolves around the question of credibility. Both for the accused and the plaintiff, a lot is at stake: their future personal and professional lives, as well as their reputations, largely depend on whose version the court will confirm.

The play shows how complicated it is to reach a verdict in such cases and how closely it is linked to societal values and prevailing prejudices. “What should one think when, after exhausting all evidence, only remains: 'She says. He says.'?" says Ferdinand von Schirach.

After “Terror,” “Taboo,” and “God,” another work by the successful author is now on our schedule – with a first-class cast: including audience award winners Sabine Fürst and Ralf Stech as the former couple.

Performances from June 13 to July 18, 2025

With Sabine Christiane Dotzer, Selda Falke, Magdalena Flade, Sabine Fürst, Marius Hubel, Stefanie Klimkait, Maja Müller, Ralf Stech, among others.
Directed by Martin Schulze
Set and costumes by Ariane Scherpf
Video by Christopher Bühler
Dramaturgy by Susanne Schmitt

*Wheelchair users and groups of 10 or more please contact our service center directly (0711-227700).

This comedy is a cult classic! Great punchlines, lots of music, and six actors – including audience favorite Andreas Klaue – who go (almost) to the limits!

Since sales have been weak for the local automotive industry and its suppliers, all friends in the group have gradually lost their jobs. The six guys are broke, without prospects, and they aren't doing well with women either. But then they come up with a brilliant idea: they want to form a male striptease group to make big money. The fact that none of them have model figures and that they all have no idea about dancing doesn't bother them at first. But soon it becomes clear that shedding all their clothes is something that needs to be learned as well...

A grandiose fun that nonetheless has some thought-provoking undertones: six men fighting against the looming unemployment with wit and inventiveness. How far will they go?

“Some materials are simply so good that they can stand out wonderfully both on stage and on screen,” wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung about the comedy, which was also successfully filmed under the title “The Full Monty.” Director Murat Yeginer, who already had the audience in tears with laughter during “Das Fräulein Wunder,” has brought the play to the here and now – and to Stuttgart. A lively comedy about men seeking new ways to keep up with the times!

Performances from May 16 to July 6, 2025

With Dieter Gring, Irfan Kars, Andreas Klaue, Aron Keleta, Gideon Rapp, Ambrogio Vinella
Directed by Murat Yeginer
Set and costumes by Beate Zoff
Choreography by Sorina Kiefer
Dramaturgy by Annette Weinmann

Woyzeck is the man that everyone tramples on...

Therefore, he is a victim, not a perpetrator. What would Woyzeck be today? A young man in precarious circumstances, without a chance for social advancement. He scrapes by with odd jobs, ruins his health out of financial desperation in questionable medical experiments, passes the time with Andres, and must come to terms with the fact that the only thing that gives his life stability - his relationship with Marie - falls apart, slips away from him. This inevitably leads to a catastrophe. But the world around him also falls apart, the Captain and the Doctor are well aware that they too can lose their social status at any moment, just cogs in the wheel of a society that has become inhumane.

The fragmentary nature of the play is deliberately maintained, situations flash by, spotlights like video clips, bright, fast, and even comically exaggerated.

Over what do we not get worked up? About the parking ticket on the windshield, the slow cashier at the supermarket checkout, the federal government, and the weather. When we get annoyed, when we are angry, the glabella line between our eyebrows digs deep into our skin. That's why it's called the frown line. And then everyone can see it.

When we laugh, our skin improves. With a smile on our face, we become more attractive to our fellow human beings. The opposite sex is drawn to us. And laughing is healthy. The lungs are trained, the brain gets an oxygen shower.

"Don't get upset. It just causes wrinkles!" is BERND STELTER's new program. There is a lot to laugh about. In two hours, wrinkles will be smoothed out, skin will be improved, and the corners of the mouth will be pulled up. It's like a two-hour beauty treatment without Botox and annoying plastic surgeons.

Doors open at 7:00 pm