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In a dispute over the rule of Thebes, the brothers Eteocles and Polynices killed each other. With Creon, power is now taken over by a man who believes he is only accountable to himself and who is convinced that the state belongs to the ruler.

Walter Braunfels' opera "The Birds" was a huge success in 1920 - in Munich alone, there were 50 further performances after the premiere, all of which were sold out. This long-standing success came to an abrupt end in 1933: while his contribution to "German culture" was still being appreciated in 1921, the Nazi regime banned his works without further ado: Braunfels was a so-called "half-Jew".

Betrayed by his brother, Prospero, Duke of Milan, escapes to a remote island with his daughter and devotes himself to his books. Years later, the political figures who once overthrew him are stranded on Prospero's island after a devastating storm. Can the old balance of power now be restored and can Prospero return as a rightful, good ruler?

The development of this piece idea began with "Schmidti's Children's Songs", which strengthen children, meet them at eye level and start a conversation with them about the world. For Braunschweig's children, director and overall artist Roscha A. Säidow selected nine songs from "Schmidti's Children's Songs". Philipp Rohmer arranged these songs for musicians from the Braunschweig State Theater while Roscha continued to spin a story that connects these nine songs. The result is Wünsche and Feisel. As Wünsche, Juliane Dennert with Rainer Mesecke as Feisel follows Little Kurt and the turtle Erna through a very special day. It is the other way around. What starts out as a completely normal morning in the city park is suddenly turned upside down. Just as the turtle Erna sits down in the clover and waits for her friend Little Kurt to come around the corner, everything remains quiet. Little Kurt doesn't come. That's a good start.

"Many hoped that fascism could bring order back to society." "But that is long gone. What does that have to do with me today? As if something like that could happen again! ... or could it?"

The 00s show »Geile Zeit« is the latest Jazzkantinen cooperation project with the Staatstheater Braunschweig. It is the conclusion of the trilogy after the great successes of the previous shows »Da Da Da« in the 80s and »Hyper! Hyper!« in the 90s, which attracted over 35,000 visitors.

»tanzwärts!« has been creating a creative space in our city since 2015. A place that enables exchange and thus creates diverse encounters between very different people of all ages: people who would probably never have met in a different context, in their everyday lives.