Leonce, son of the owner of Popo GmbH, is bored out of his mind – and Lena is equally weary of life. Now the two are to be married without ever having met, and on top of that, Leonce is supposed to take over his father's company after the wedding. To escape his fate, Leonce and his new companion Valeria flee to Italy in search of la dolce vita. What they don't know is that Lena, who has been assigned to him, and her companion, governess Konstante, have also fled the lives planned for them. At their refuge, the two pairs meet, and Leonce and Lena fall in love – unaware that they are destined for each other anyway.

Leonce and Lena

Detmolder Hof

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

Alceste has lost his heart to the young Célimène. She reciprocates his feelings, but she also enjoys socializing, has many admirers, and loves to flirt—especially on her television show, "Célimène Uncensored," where she invites local high society to share the latest gossip in front of an audience. Alceste, an investigative journalist, is a guest on her show to promote his new book, which exposes the hypocritical machinations of politics. Uncompromising and relentless, he refuses to make any concessions to politeness and etiquette—he insists on radical honesty. With passionate determination, he confronts a hypocritical society, preaches absolute truth, and deliberately places himself in an outsider position Witty and full of punchlines, Molière wrote a profound play about appearance and reality, and a wonderfully grotesque comedy of character. Ekat Cordes' production places the story in the garish, plastic world of television, where not all that glitters is gold, and shows that while the world may have changed since Molière's time, people have remained the same.

The Misanthrope

Stadthalle Plochingen

Friends Bérenger and Jean are chatting on a café terrace one Sunday afternoon when suddenly a rhinoceros charges across the square. While everyone present discusses the incident in astonishment and horror, only Bérenger remains unmoved. The next day at the office, the event is hotly debated – until Madame Boeuf bursts in, delivers her husband's sick note, and breathlessly reports that a rhinoceros followed her. Soon after, it rushes up the stairs and is identified by Madame Boeuf as her husband. Gradually, more and more inhabitants of the provincial town transform into angry pachyderms. And suddenly, they are in the majority. Anyone who wants to belong also transforms – "one has to move with the times, after all."

Rhinoceroses

Detmolder Sommertheater

Fürstliche Reitbahn

Tourist, Congress and Saalbau GmbH

Fidgety Philip, Soup-Kaspar, Struwwelpeter, Johnny Head-in-Air, Conrad the Thumb-Sucker, the Pyromaniac Paulinchen, Evil Frederick & Co. – the stories of naughty children who meet a gruesome end are as legendary as they are controversial. Since their first publication by the psychiatrist and children's author Heinrich Hoffmann in 1845, these tales, intended to instill morality and "decent" behavior in boys and girls, have lost none of their gruesome fascination.

Shockheaded Peter

Heinz-Hilpert-Theater

Main Hall, Harztheater

Stadttheater Fürth

Theater & Konzerthaus Solingen

Detmold Theatre

Village judge Adam finds himself in a predicament: the case of a broken jug is brought before him. The plaintiff, Marthe Rull, accuses Ruprecht, her daughter Eve's fiancé, of forcibly entering Eve's room and breaking the offending vessel. Ruprecht, in turn, claims to have caught a stranger red-handed, who escaped undetected by jumping out of the window. What no one suspects at first, however, is that the culprit is none other than Village Judge Adam himself. He had been harassing Eve the previous evening, was surprised by Ruprecht, and knocked over the fateful jug in his flight. What to do? Although Adam becomes increasingly entangled in his web of lies as the trial progresses, he brazenly tries to shift the blame onto himself until the very end…

The Broken Jug

Two giants of London's underworld clash: On one side, Jonathan Peachum, who has turned begging in the metropolis into a lucrative business. On the other, Macheath, known as Mackie Messer, the gang leader, who, thanks to his excellent connections with the police, is considered completely innocent. When Peachum's daughter Polly marries Macheath, the conflict erupts into open conflict. Can the marriage be annulled, perhaps even by hanging? The beggar king denounces the master criminal: Mackie Messer is forced into hiding, betrays Polly, and is betrayed himself. And above it all, the moon shines over Soho!

Manuela Stüßer

Events

Past events

May 9 - Jul 5, 2026

Leonce and Lena · Landestheater Detmold

Apr 10, 2026

Mother Father Country · Landestheater Detmold

Future and recently performed repertoire

Celia Peachum, his wife in The Threepenny Opera by Weill

Landestheater Detmold

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