One family, two languages, one hundred years, and more than two thousand kilometers between Istanbul and Gelsenkirchen. Akin Emanuel Şipal tells the story of a family in which the Silesian great-grandmother once attacked the Turkish grandfather with an umbrella. The son-in-law returns to Turkey as an author and translates the great works of German literature. The next generation is torn between the two countries. Added to this is much of what Turks think they know about Germans and Germans about Turks. The author's alter ego gets entangled in all of this. "Mother Father Country" paints a fast-paced and subtly humorous picture of a world where cultures blend and become something new. In 2022, "Mother Father Country" was awarded the Audience Prize at the prestigious Mülheim Theatre Festival

Mother Father Country

Konzerthalle im Kurpark

Human or monster? In Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, the young scientist Victor Frankenstein pursues an ambitious goal: he assembles a human being from various body parts and attempts to bring it to life. The result of his experiment, however, is decidedly ambivalent. When he finally comes face to face with his "creation," he is overcome with horror and flees from his own creation. Is it a demonic monster, born of hubris and obsessive scientific curiosity? Or is this being, brought into the world without its own intervention, also a vulnerable creature, yearning for love, affection, and friendship?

Frankenstein

Bocholt Textile Factory

Kulturring Peine e.V.

Municipal Stage House Wesel

Palatin Cultural Center

Detmold Theatre

In "Origin," Saša Stanišić embarks on a quest to trace his roots: born in 1978 in the small town of Višegrad in the former Yugoslavia, he fled the Bosnian War with his parents at the age of 14, ending up in Heidelberg in the 1990s. Poetically, with powerful language and subtle humor, Stanišić recounts the adventures of his childhood in a soon-to-disappear country, his growing up as a teenager in Germany, his search for identity, and a motley crew of ancestors: his great-aunt Zagorka, who set off at 15 to become a cosmonaut; his great-grandfather, a raftsman who couldn't swim; and above all, his grandmother Kristina, who is increasingly losing her memories of the past. A warmhearted and whimsical kaleidoscope full of quirky stories and profound truths.

Dirk Pysall

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Apr 10, 2026

Mother Father Country · Landestheater Detmold

Mar 1 - May 19, 2026

Frankenstein · Landestheater Detmold

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