Paula meets Paul in front of her apartment building. They don't know each other and pass each other by. Everything could have turned out differently. That's often how it is. She works in a supermarket and is a single mother. At a funfair, she meets Colly – not exactly a jackpot, but at least a welcome distraction from her monotonous everyday life. And who knows, maybe he's the love of her life. She gets pregnant and gives birth to their child alone in the hospital. The doctor warns her against another pregnancy; she barely survived this one. Back home, Colly cheats on her with another woman. No, he wasn't the love of her life. Maybe she'll simply accept the offer from Saft, a well-off but much older businessman. He would be a father to the children and provide them with financial security. She doesn't love him, but it does sound tempting not to have to handle everything alone. A person can't just sleep and work all day. But one day she wants to really party, so she goes out. In a bar, she meets Paul a second time. She falls in love and throws herself passionately into the relationship. But Paul is married with a child. Life isn't kind to Paula again. They separate, and her despair causes Paula to lose her attention for a moment. A tragic accident changes everything. Paul can no longer stand his marriage and chooses Paula, whom he can win back. And now, for both of them, great happiness could finally come true. When Paula becomes pregnant for the third time, she has to make a decision – and chooses hope.

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The Legend of Paul and Paula

Schauspielhaus Bad Godesberg

FREMD tells the story of a child. He is born in France to Shoah survivors. The family is stateless, homeless. A life in the diaspora. In the 1960s, the family immigrates to Germany. Of all places, to the country of the murderers who wiped out almost the entire family of the parents. The child feels a stranger. "I live somewhere in the middle of nowhere." How can one build a life in this place? What do people dream of here, and how do they look to the future in a place when the past lies like a veil over everything and the present means exclusion, racism, and anti-Semitism? The family sticks together. Perhaps sometimes it even holds on too tightly. The child feels responsible for their parents their entire life, remaining a child even when they are long grown up. The trauma weighs heavily on the family, not letting go. "If I am afraid of the stranger, how afraid is the stranger of me. And fear, fear is my companion in life." But the child survives and tries to continue dreaming.

Foreign

Werkstattbühne

Whoever has money has power. And whoever doesn't will find it difficult to build a fortune. This was already the case in 1837 in London's Soho or in Brecht's Berlin - and it is no different today. Life without capitalism is no longer imaginable, and in a self-corrupting system, everything has become a commodity - love, morality, and misery. Businessmen and the police are just as criminal and devoid of morals as criminals and beggars - there is no distinction between the bourgeoisie and the crooks. The top and the bottom of society merge seamlessly into one another. What connects them is money, and good business probably justifies any immoral behavior.

The Threepenny Opera

Theater Bonn Opera House

Telling each other stories can be encouraging. It can distract from everyday life, from all the things that sometimes make life so difficult. Jonathan Löwe knows this too. That's why he tells his seriously ill little brother Karl, nicknamed "Krümel," stories about the land of Nangijala. Because that's where you go when you die. Nangijala is a fairytale land, Jonathan promises. A land full of legends and stories and, above all, a place where you experience nothing but adventures all day long. But completely unexpectedly, Jonathan dies before his brother when he saves Krümel from a burning house.

The Brothers Lionheart

Every person is an abyss – no one knows this better than those who stand inexorably before it. Like the penniless soldier Woyzeck, who does everything humanly possible to provide for his girlfriend Marie and their child. He is his captain's henchman and barber and a doctor's guinea pig. At the mercy of his poverty, Woyzeck suffers a daily life dominated by ridicule, agitation, drill, contempt, and violence. His friend Andres suffers a similar fate, but at least he never gives up hope for a peaceful revolution from below. Marie hopes for a more independent life, but apart from providing full-time care for her child, she doesn't know how she can achieve this. Her neighbor Margret observes social conditions very closely. A rage is growing inside her that is slowly spreading to everyone else.

Julia Kathinka Philippi

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Apr 13 - May 3, 2025

The Legend of Paul and Paula · Theater Bonn

Apr 9 - May 16, 2025

Foreign · Theater Bonn

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Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera by Weill

Theater Bonn

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