Lighting Designer

The godfather of the Beat Generation, William S. Burroughs, rock legend Tom Waits, and director Robert Wilson created "The Black Rider" in Hamburg in 1990: a dreamlike play about the price of escapism. Seemingly opposing worlds blend within it: the associative, often drug-induced lyrics of William S. Burroughs, driven by sound and rhythm, the raw, dissociative sound of Tom Waits, and a well-known German folk tale.

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The Black Rider The Casting of the Magic Bullets

Theater Lübeck

Scotland in the 17th century: Lucia Ashton loves Edgardo, a member of the rival Ravenswood family. After a change of power, her brother Enrico finds himself on the wrong side: only Lucia's marriage to the nobleman Arturo can save him from losing his power and his life. The wedding is performed under duress. But the guests are treated to a scene of horror when Lucia emerges from the bridal chamber covered in blood: she has stabbed her husband.

Lucia di Lammermoor

For generations of children, Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel" was and remains the first, unforgettable operatic experience. The story of the two broom-making children, chased from their home by their mother, wander fearfully through the forest until they reach a tempting witch's house, only to find themselves in even greater danger there, was loosely adapted into verse by the composer's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimms' fairy tales. Humperdinck, a composer stylistically close to Wagner, created enchanting music for the fairy-tale images, from the "Evening Blessing" to the Sandman's and Dewman's songs to the terrifying witch who has captivated children and adults alike since its creation.

Hansel and Gretel

"One must be light, with a light heart and light hands, holding and taking, holding and letting go..." With these words, Field Marshal Princess Werdenberg reflects on her life. She has a youthful and passionate lover, Count Octavian, but suspects that sooner or later he will leave her for a younger woman. Her morning tête-à-tête with her lover is interrupted by her cousin, the uncouth Baron Ochs von Lerchenau. To improve his disastrous financial situation, he wants to marry the young Sophie von Faninal, daughter of a wealthy newly ennobled man. The Marshal suggests Octavian as the "Rosenkavalier," who will present the silver rose as his courtship. During the exchange of roses, however, Octavian and Sophie fall in love. Despite her pain, the Field Marshal knows how to let go of her lover "with ease," because she has vowed to "love him in the right way, so that I myself still love his love for another..."

The Rosenkavalier

In a village near Utrecht, Judge Adam's word is law. Until Mrs. Marthe Rull appears before his judge's bench. She accuses her daughter Eve's fiancé: Ruprecht secretly sneaked into Eve's room at night—or perhaps even forced his way in—and broke a jug in the commotion. Ruprecht vehemently denies this. He says he found another man in Eve's room, and the man knocked the jug off the ledge as he fled out the window. Because he believes Eve has cheated on him, Ruprecht wants to break off the engagement. And Eve? She remains silent. Instead, Judge Adam talks all the more—and soon gets himself into trouble. Because with every flattery, every evasive maneuver, with every increasingly obvious lie, it becomes clearer who really gained access to Eve's room.

The Broken Jug

Nothing is more improbable than the love between Tristan and Isolde: In a fight, Tristan murders her fiancé, then lets her heal his own wounds without being recognized. Tristan soon returns to Isolde and asks for her hand in marriage: not for himself, but in the name of King Marke. But something seems to be smoldering between the two, irreconcilable, on the border between love and hate. When Isolde plans to kill herself and Tristan, Isolde's servant Brangäne exchanges the poison for a love potion - the moment of impending death becomes the birth of a love that transcends everything.

Tristan and Isolde

She is a woman whose excessive desires lead to her own extinction: The Theban princess Semele is to marry Prince Athamas at her father's request, but falls in love with the god Jupiter, who appears to her in human form. On her wedding day, Semele therefore willingly allows herself to be abducted into his realm. The love-struck Jupiter swears to his new lover that he will grant her every wish. His jealous wife Juno uses this promise for a devious intrigue: In the guise of Semele's sister Ino, she convinces Semele that she can achieve immortality if she sees Jupiter in his true, divine form. In this way, she tells Semele that she wants Jupiter, without revealing to her that the sight of a god is unbearable for a human being. Semele will burn in the face of the real Jupiter.

Semele

Fifteen years after the end of the Second World War, the German diplomat Walter and his wife Lisa travel by ship from Europe to Brazil, where he is to take up a new position. Everything seems peaceful until Lisa unexpectedly notices a passenger on board who reminds her of Marta, a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she worked as a guard. Lisa never told her husband anything about this past, and repressed it as best she could. But now images of her own involvement and guilt break out; the sea voyage leads inexorably into her own abysses.

The passenger

Munich Kammerspiele

The Merry Widow is Hanna Glawari. She has inherited a lot and can now live it up and make the salons of the Parisian upper class unsafe. If only it weren't for all her admirers who have their eyes on her fortune! Because now she sees the chance to marry her childhood sweetheart Danilo - but he of all people doesn't want to get the reputation of marrying out of greed.

The Merry Widow

Über der Offiziersfamilie Wingrave liegt der Schatten eines alten Fluchs: Der Legende nach erschlug ein Vorfahr seinen Sohn, weil dieser die Familienehre nicht verteidigen wollte. Die Leiche des Kindsmörders wurde kurz darauf im selben Zimmer aufgefunden und die Todesursache nie geklärt. Krieg, Disziplin, Ordnung und Hierarchiegläubigkeit bestimmen das Sein der Wingraves seit Generationen. Im Gegensatz dazu hat die Erinnerung an das Schicksal des erschlagenen Sohns das Leben von Sprössling Owen geprägt. Owen, braver Junge und Familienstolz, entscheidet sich, nach reiflicher Überlegung, seine Offiziersausbildung abzubrechen und die Militärakademie zu verlassen. Die Familie betrachtet diese Haltung als Verrat. Er wird bedrängt, verspottet, bedroht und am Ende enterbt. Selbst seine Verlobte wendet sich von ihm ab, da sie ihn für einen Feigling hält. Doch gerade der Mut, seiner Familiengeschichte und seinem Schicksal zu widerstehen und seinen eigenen Überzeugungen treu zu bleiben, ist die Stärke, die Owens Charakter ausmacht.

Lighting Designer

Falk Hampel

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Feb 14 - Mar 22, 2026

The Black Rider The Casting of the Magic Bullets · Theater Lübeck

Dec 20, 2025 - Jan 16, 2026

Lucia di Lammermoor · Theater Lübeck

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