Name: Happiness is an orange
Start: 2026-07-03T19:30:00
Location: Detmold Theatre

Nikos Striezel

Franziska Pfalzgraf

Brigitte Bauma

Annette Blazyczek

Thorsten Tinney

Sandra Leitner

Patrik Cieslik

Heiner Junghans

Florian Bajer

Peter Lund

Bart De Clercq

Daria Kornysheva

Nikolay Schröder

Vladimir Karadjov

Landestheater Detmold

Who doesn't know him, the impoverished country gentleman tilting at windmills? Don Quixote, who suffers so much from reality that he escapes into the world of his beloved chivalric romances and loses himself in this dream world. Equipped with his imagination as armor, his chivalric ideals as weapons, and his faithful squire Sancho Panza at his side, Don Quixote embarks on unknown adventures. He fights against imaginary enemies and illusions, but at his core, always for his true ideals. He is constantly searching for his equally imagined great love, Dulcinea, an ideal he projects onto all women. He actually helps the young Kitri escape a forced marriage and marry her true love. He survives all his adventures unscathed—until, at the end of his journey, he encounters his own reflection and recognizes his self-deception.

Don Quixote

Detmold Theatre

Paderhalle Paderborn

A family of field mice lives in an old stone wall in the middle of a beautiful meadow. With winter approaching, the little mice are busily gathering various delicacies for their pantry. They work day and night – all of them except Frederick. Instead of scampering nimbly from one nut to the next like the others, he seems to just sit around. Frederick collects astonishing things, things that at first glance can't fill hungry mouse stomachs, but are nevertheless vital for survival.

Frederick

Detmolder Hof

Ev. Familienzentrum Kindertagesstätte Die Arche

Felix-Fechenbach Gesamtschule Leopoldshöhe

Stadthalle Delbrück

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

Tourist, Congress and Saalbau GmbH

Jennifer is home alone. Her mother suddenly has to work a night shift at the hospital, and her father no longer lives with them. Jennifer is actually a little afraid of being alone, but it's also a great opportunity to do all the things Mom usually forbids: lying on the sofa with her shoes on, ordering pizza without permission, and watching TV until she drops. But even that gets boring eventually, and Jennifer becomes increasingly anxious. The best thing to do is hide in the closet. But what's this? Someone's already in there: Fearman, a terrified superhero from a distant galaxy. He's on the run from the nasty Rabbleman, who, of course, happens to ring the doorbell at this very moment. Chaos ensues.

Fear Man

JugendFreizeitZentrum JFZ St.Tönis

Stadttheater Herford

theater itzehoe

Theater Hameln

A fisherman and his wife live in a miserable hut. One day, the fisherman catches an enchanted, talking flounder, which he immediately releases. At home, his wife reproaches him, demanding that he ask the flounder for some prosperity. Reluctantly, for the sake of peace, he visits the flounder again and wishes for a proper farm for his wife.

The Fisherman and His Wife

Theater in der Stadthalle

Sinalco tastes great – and has for 120 years! Germany's first fizzy lemonade was once more famous than Coca-Cola. But the yellow fizzy drink from Detmold is much more than just a fruity sip from its distinctive bottle: Sinalco is a piece of German history.

Happiness is an orange

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

Cleverly, Tom Lanoye transposes Shakespeare's tale of the king and his (un)faithful daughters to the present day, wittily swapping the genders. The king mutates into an influential ruler of a business empire, and the daughters into sons: Industrial magnate Elizabeth Lear wants to abdicate and pass her inheritance on to the younger generation. But first, she wants to hear from her offspring how much they love her. Two of the sons flatter her with carefully chosen words to secure as large a share of their mother's inheritance as possible. But Cornald, the youngest of the brothers, refuses the deceitful deal: money for love. Corrupted by the power of being a company head, Elizabeth Lear cannot distinguish between genuine and feigned affection and, in a fit of rage, disinherits her former favorite son In doing so, she sets in motion a mechanism of downfall…

Queen Lear

Under the working title "I Don't Feel It," an intergenerational theater project explores the contradictory emotional state of our society. Why do emotions seem to escalate ever more in (social) media, while the everyday lives of many people simultaneously feel dull and empty? Can feelings be consumed? Are there good and bad feelings—and were feelings perhaps " better " in the past?

I don't feel it

Junges Theater

In her exotic, enchanted realm, Alcina is the sole ruler: she can seduce anything and anyone. Men she tires of, she transforms into mute objects. But for Ruggiero, she feels love for the first time – and also the fear of losing her beloved. When his fiancée, Bradamante, ventures into the enchanted realm to free Ruggiero, Alcina risks losing everything.

Alcina

In the second symphony concert, we welcome another outstanding concert soloist: the Swedish soprano Maria Bengtsson, who has performed at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Opéra Bastille in Paris, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Berlin State Opera, among others, under the baton of Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Simone Young, Philippe Jordan, Vladimir Jurovsky, Riccardo Muti, Sebastian Weigle, and many others. Bengtsson will perform Alban Berg's "Seven Early Songs" with the Symphony Orchestra: the song cycle, which combines texts by forgotten poets such as Paul Hohenberg and Carl Hauptmann with Rilke, Lenau, and Storm, tells the story of a great love.

Symphony Concert 2

University of Music in Detmold

A family celebration is approaching, the guests are invited, all that's missing is the perfect menu. A glance at the old recipe book awakens delicious memories: of steaming Sunday roasts and the aroma of fresh apple pie, of Grandma's secret ingredient and the best snack in the world. In the new program of the successful "Songs from the Past" series, culinary memories are transformed into a musical feast – course by course, song by song. As the stage transforms into a beautifully set table, familiar hits, folk songs, and operetta melodies fill the air, seasoned with stories about food, cooking, and enjoyment. The audience is warmly invited to sing along and relive their own memories of favorite dishes, family rituals, and old celebrations. Look forward to a delightful experience for all the senses!