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It is court day in Huisum. Village judge Adam, however, is badly injured. He says he "stumbled over himself" when he got up early in the morning. His official wig is also missing. It was given away for reworking, and caught fire on a candle - or did the cat have kittens in it during the night? While there is at least a grain of truth in Adam's report of the fall - which took place at night rather than early in the morning - as an "Adam's fall", the web of lies that the judge presents to explain his condition is becoming increasingly confusing.

Gregor Zöllig, director of the Braunschweig Dance Theater, is reinterpreting the most famous book in Spanish literature, "Don Quixote," in a world premiere with his dance ensemble and the Braunschweig State Orchestra under the direction of Alexis Agrafiotis. The production and choreography are designed as a psychological balancing act between self-discovery and self-deception. The sound backdrop of dreamlike images is provided by compositions by Louis Andriessen, Michael Gordon, Henryk Górecki, Jon Hopkins, Charles Ives, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Rolf Liebermann, Léon Minkus and Steve Reich. The premiere of the world premiere is on November 2nd in the main hall of the Braunschweig State Theater.

One of the greatest icons of pop culture was Freddie Mercury. As co-founder of "Queen," he thrilled the masses. But even in the biggest pose suitable for a stadium, he revealed an artist whose hunger for life struck an existential nerve. His art showed a person's struggle for intoxication and fulfillment in the knowledge of the abysses, of fall and transience. Mercury never shied away from asking the big questions about life and death.

After returning from exile, he began his work in Braunschweig until 1956. In a sensational trial, he achieved the rehabilitation of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944. His work in Frankfurt until 1968 was associated with the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann and the Auschwitz trials. The controversial lawyer encountered a wide range of rejections, and as a Jew, also openly anti-Semitic hostility. He campaigned for the consistent criminal prosecution of Nazi injustice and thus made a significant contribution to the democratization of West German society.

"At the White Horse Inn on Lake Wolfgangsee, happiness is at your doorstep" - in the popular inn, all kinds of different characters meet each other, all looking for happiness (in love): waiter Leopold loves his boss, the landlady of the "Rössl", Josepha Vogelhuber, but is constantly rejected because Josepha is interested in her regular guest Dr. Siedler. But he has his eye on the factory owner's daughter Ottilie, who in turn is to marry Sigismund, the son of her father's greatest competitor. Sigismund, however... in short: Lake Wolfgangsee is not just an Alpine Salzkammergut idyll, but also a tangle of love and competition. And then the emperor comes.

The tragic opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc, premiered in 1957 at La Scala in Milan, is one of the most important works of musical theater of the 20th century. Based on the true story of the Carmelites of Compiègne, "Dialogues des Carmélites" tells of social abysses and the importance of the basic values ​​of democratic coexistence - and culminates in a finale that is musically one of the most emotional that opera has to offer.

Ernst Jandl was an Austrian poet (1925-2000) who, with passion and curiosity, constantly struggled to overcome boundaries and seek new forms. In addition to his experimental poetry in the tradition of concrete poetry, he also wrote two plays from the mid-1970s onwards - "The Humanists" and "From Foreign Lands", which won the Mülheim Dramatists' Prize in 1980. Director Christoph Diem and his team are now bringing this literary gem about a writer's creative crises to the stage for the first time in Braunschweig.

"There's no point in fooling yourself into thinking that a relationship has a chance if your respective record collections only create dissonance and your personal favorite films have nothing to say to each other, even at a party."

"Yesterday", a meditation on memory, is a dance and textually intelligent collage of selected choreographies from Jasmin Vardimon's extensive dance repertoire. The choreographer redesigns the evening, which consists of highlights from past works and premiered in London in 2008, for the 16-member ensemble of the Braunschweig Dance Theater and places it in a new context. The dancers interweave scenes of intimate and vulnerable tenderness with provocative and playful movement.

Count Orlok wants to buy a property in Wismar and in order to clarify the purchase agreement, the estate agent Knock sends his young employee Hutter to Transylvania. There he is received in Orlok's castle and bitten. Orlok sees a medallion with the portrait of Hutter's wife Ellen - and immediately signs the purchase agreement. He packs his travel coffins full of contaminated soil and sets off for Wismar. None of the sailors survive Orlok's passage on the ship, but plenty of rats do, bringing the plague to Wismar. While the city gradually becomes depopulated, Hutter's wife learns that only she - and only by sacrificing herself - can put an end to Orlok's haunting.