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The Seven Years' War is over. Minna von Barnhelm is searching for her fiancé, Major Tellheim, from whom she hasn't heard in weeks. He is penniless because a bill of exchange he received for an advance payment is not recognized as his property by a Berlin court. Now he is stuck in an inn and has to vacate his room to a more affluent noblewoman. The fact that this woman is Minna, of all people, doesn't ensure a quick happy ending. Tellheim's wounded sense of honor stands in the way of a new relationship. Minna, a self-confident and self-determined woman, tries to circumvent the major's stubbornness, but although they love each other and both believe their intentions are always good, they constantly run into each other. This is what makes the play so comically charming. The great Enlightenment thinker, Lessing, does not overlook how war defines and changes social positions.

Minna von Barnhelm

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Basil is an artist and Dorian Gray is his model. Lord Henry, the third in the studio, is a friend of the painter and of decadence. While one paints him, the other corrupts Dorian's pure soul with immoral, cynical speeches. In the same (unnoticed) magical moment in which a special portrait is created, soul and purity separate. One moves into the picture, the other remains with the model.

Dorian G.

Count Orlok wants to buy a property in Wismar and in order to clarify the purchase agreement, the estate agent Knock sends his young employee Hutter to Transylvania. There he is received in Orlok's castle and bitten. Orlok sees a medallion with the portrait of Hutter's wife Ellen - and immediately signs the purchase agreement. He packs his travel coffins full of contaminated soil and sets off for Wismar. None of the sailors survive Orlok's passage on the ship, but plenty of rats do, bringing the plague to Wismar. While the city gradually becomes depopulated, Hutter's wife learns that only she - and only by sacrificing herself - can put an end to Orlok's haunting.

EPSG:4326

Nosferatu

Staatstheater Mainz

Ernst Jandl was an Austrian poet (1925-2000) who, with passion and curiosity, constantly struggled to overcome boundaries and seek new forms. In addition to his experimental poetry in the tradition of concrete poetry, he also wrote two plays from the mid-1970s onwards - "The Humanists" and "From Foreign Lands", which won the Mülheim Dramatists' Prize in 1980. Director Christoph Diem and his team are now bringing this literary gem about a writer's creative crises to the stage for the first time in Braunschweig.

Director

Christoph Diem

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 5, 2025 - Feb 14, 2026

Minna von Barnhelm · Staatstheater Braunschweig

Past events

Oct 5, 2025 - Feb 14, 2026

Minna von Barnhelm · Staatstheater Braunschweig

25 - 26 Jan, 2025

Dorian G. · Staatstheater Braunschweig

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