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Deep in the belly of a decommissioned ocean liner sits a man. He has spent his entire life on this ship. For Novecento, the transatlantic liner represents the world. Left behind on the ship as a foundling, he traveled the oceans as a fabulously gifted pianist, watching passengers come and go, and glimpsing dry land only from the railing. Together with the audience, actor Götz van Ooyen recreates the sea voyage of a lifetime in this monologue based on Alessandro Baricco's 1994 novella.

November

Staatstheater Braunschweig

"A man comes to Germany. One of those who come home and then don't come home after all, because there's no home for them anymore. And their home is then outside the door." Wolfgang Borchert uses simple words to describe the fate of Beckmann, a war veteran who no longer has a place to live. He visits his wife, who has found another partner; he goes to see his former colonel, who denies all responsibility; and he introduces himself to a cabaret director who finds his songs too dark. Wherever Beckmann turns, no one listens to him; he has been undermined by the war, his existence destroyed. He feels alone with his trauma, yet he is one of countless others – and it could have happened to anyone.

Outside the door

"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.

Im weissen Rössl

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.

The Broken Jug

"The beggars beg, the thieves steal, the whores whore. And the shark has teeth, and it wears them on its face..." Brecht's sharp-tongued travesty, in which the beggars and crooks act more bourgeois than good society, seems to have lost a few of its sharp teeth today, so natural has Brecht's critique of capitalism become to us. Here, crime is subject to the ice-cold laws of the market and love has a precisely calculated price. And so greed and profiteering are the determining principles that neither an old male friendship nor a tender romance can withstand. Doesn't that still sound familiar?

The Threepenny Opera

The premiere of "Girl Murderer :: Brunke" by the award-winning theater collective RAUM+ZEIT brings the writer Thomas Brasch (1945-2001) back to life and brings him to Braunschweig for a reading. The Karl Brunke case, a true Braunschweig story, caused a stir at the beginning of the 20th century because Brunke murdered two young women, allegedly at their request. Brasch withdrew in the 1990s and researched the crime like an obsessive. More than 14,000 manuscript pages were collected and are now archived. In 1999, Brasch's publishing house published a volume of just 100 pages.

Actor

Götz van Ooyen

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 3, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026

Outside the door ·

Oct 17, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026

November · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Past events

Oct 17, 2025 - Jan 10, 2026

November · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Oct 3, 2025 - Jan 18, 2026

Outside the door ·

Future and recently performed repertoire

Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum in The Threepenny Opera by Weill

Staatstheater Braunschweig

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