How well-versed are you in Greek mythology? Are you familiar with the characters of goddesses and gods? And who actually rode the Trojan horse?
The operetta The Beautiful Helen offers a little insight here: Helen was supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world in her time (around 1250 BC). Aphrodite, who had won the beauty contest with Athena and Hera, had promised Helen to the judge Paris as a prize. At the time of the contest, however, Helen was not free; she was married to Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The prize could therefore only be fulfilled by kidnapping Helen, which is ultimately seen as the trigger for the Trojan War.

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The Beautiful Helena

Staatstheater Mainz

“Showmaster is my job, a job that the devil created…” Rudi Carrell sang about himself in 1975 with an ironic undertone and later shaped German television as a showmaster until the 2000s. Carrell, a perfectionist and tireless source of ideas, was always on the lookout for new show elements to inspire his audience. But behind the charming entertainer there was also an ambivalent character.

Showmaster is my profession - Rudi Carrell (UA)

Three women - grandmother, daughter and granddaughter - are sitting together at dinner in a cozy apartment in a European city. They talk about their shopping, the upcoming weekend trip and the school work of the youngest, as if they had always lived here. But they only moved into this house a few months ago, where they are known as the Ukrainian "refugees". They describe themselves more as "temporarily displaced persons".
It seems almost inconceivable that the three of them stormed out of the house under a bomb alert or were stuck in a traffic jam at the gates of Europe, on their way to an uncertain future.

Non-Existent

Viola is separated from her brother Sebastian in a shipwreck and comes ashore in Illyria. Here she decides to go to work for Duke Orsino under the name Cesario, disguised as a page. The Duke likes the young nobleman and sends him as a messenger to Olivia, whom he adores. Viola, who has fallen in love with the Duke, suffers from these errands. To her delight, Olivia rejects Orsino's advances, as she has sworn to mourn her deceased brother for seven years - but then falls in love with the supposed youth Cesario. 

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A young couple sets out on a journey to become average. They move from Berlin to Haßloch. Haßloch is considered the most average place in Germany and is a so-called "Magic Town". The economy takes advantage of the averageness of the residents for product testing. But who actually produces whose needs here? Which wishes are normal? And what happens when you fall in love with a product that then suddenly disappears again? The need to help shape the average and the longing for predictability and security create pressure to adapt your own wishes and dreams.

Magic Town (UA)

After returning from exile, he began his work in Braunschweig until 1956. In a sensational trial, he achieved the rehabilitation of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944. His work in Frankfurt until 1968 was associated with the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann and the Auschwitz trials. The controversial lawyer encountered a wide range of rejections, and as a Jew, also openly anti-Semitic hostility. He campaigned for the consistent criminal prosecution of Nazi injustice and thus made a significant contribution to the democratization of West German society.

Fritz Bauer Ultras

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.

Nosferatu

"Yesterday", a meditation on memory, is a dance and textually intelligent collage of selected choreographies from Jasmin Vardimon's extensive dance repertoire. The choreographer redesigns the evening, which consists of highlights from past works and premiered in London in 2008, for the 16-member ensemble of the Braunschweig Dance Theater and places it in a new context. The dancers interweave scenes of intimate and vulnerable tenderness with provocative and playful movement.

Yesterday

When you imagine where the big, important decisions are made, I immediately think of this big table and that's where they sit. The powerful, the decision-makers, the voters. JUNGE! together with TURBO PASCAL is using the 2025 federal election as an opportunity to look at children's participation and voting rights. How do they get to this table, as laid down in Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? So get to the table, grab a seat, cast your votes, loudly or quietly, with slips of paper, hands and feet, we are now bringing democracy to life, or making it new again.

The Super Election

When the actor Hendrik Höfgen had his first successes in Hamburg, the "province" had long been too small for him. He wanted to be seen at any price. And he did manage to make the leap: in Berlin, where people were celebrating and dancing ecstatically in the last days of the Weimar Republic, he soon began to shine, both on stage and in the salons. He was politically left-wing and planned a "revolutionary theater." In 1933, it all seemed to be over. But he made arrangements and, as a celebrated star of the new regime, soon rose to the position of director of the state theater. He accepted that this meant betraying old friends. He demanded to be allowed to be apolitical in a time that made that impossible: "I'm just a completely ordinary actor."

Mephisto

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Gerda and Kay are best friends. But when Kay gets a splinter in his eye, everything is suddenly different. He finds Gerda and his other friends annoying and boring and follows the enticing voice of the ice-beautiful Snow Queen. Gerda sets out to find her friend - and finds herself: In the mysterious and shrill realm of the Flower Queen, at the golden court of a lovesick prince and princess, in the dangerous and harsh world of the Robber Queen, she learns to stand up for herself and her friends. With the help of the crow and the reindeer, she ultimately finds her way and is able to free Kay from the cold hands of the Snow Queen with the true power of friendship - laughter.

The Snow Queen Musical theater

The emotionally torn Roderick Usher is the last branch of a degenerate noble family and is at the centre of this dark story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story is initially a dialogue between Roderick Usher and the first-person narrator William, who finds his friend in a worryingly absent-minded state on his country estate. Roderick's twin sister also lives in the house. But for William, her presence is like a ghostly suspicion - especially when Roderick declares her dead. This huge, demonic house, which seems to be tearing apart in the middle, seems to have a malicious power over the souls that live in it. What family history is inscribed in the house?

The Fall of the House of Usher

Felix Krull sees the world as a stage and wants to enjoy life to the fullest. He grew up in a small town in the Rheingau. His father was an unsuccessful sparkling wine manufacturer who drove the family into ruin and then took his own life. Felix - the lucky one - sets out into the wide world to escape poverty. Through his godfather Schimmelpreester, he finds a job in a luxury hotel in Paris. There he is very good at saying what people want to hear. He is what he seems. He is authentic by deceiving and an expert at marketing himself. A projection figure for all desires.

Confessions of Felix Krull, Impostor

Anyone who has an eagle for a father dreams of flying. The young Duke of Reichstadt, nicknamed "L'Aiglon" ("the young eagle"), is the only legitimate male descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte and wants to follow in his famous father's footsteps and make history himself. Encouraged by war veteran Flambeau, he wants to escape the golden cage in Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where Austrian Chancellor Metternich is keeping him imprisoned: Napoleon's son with Marie-Louise of Austria wants to regain control of France. But the young bird's wings break when he sets foot on a battlefield for the first time in his life and hears the ghostly voices of the fallen. He begins to understand what the reality of war really means.

L'Aiglon

When Colm and his wife Bonnie return to his father's hometown, an island off West Cork, Ireland, for the first time in many years, everything seems different at first: His mother Beiv, a famous visual artist who lives a secluded life on the island, has demolished half of the house and decided to only install glass walls in order to deliberately put herself on display. People in the village are talking anyway. Since the mysterious death of her husband, who died at sea ten years ago, she has been accused of murder and is constantly under surveillance. And her son's visit holds a few surprises for Beiv too. Colm has kept his wedding to art student Bonnie a secret from her and otherwise seems to have no interest in a harmonious reunion. Old wounds are quickly reopened. The sudden appearance of his old childhood friend Donal finally causes the situation to escalate. The past draws everyone into a whirlpool of old and new injuries, accusations of guilt and unrequited love.

Beacon

"Light gives us the ability to perceive others and thus ourselves. Like in a pinhole camera, the new impressions fall on our retina and condition our actions. The information that reaches us passes unfiltered from the outside to the inside. There it changes due to our predispositions. The same events can therefore elicit very contradictory reactions in different people." (Philippe Kratz)

Camera Obscura (UA)

The cat in the hat ends up in Stackeln an der Kruke by chance. She moves into an old, empty house where the grumpy brewery director Maulwisch spent his unhappy childhood. The cat promises to make the house a happy place to live. But that is impossible on her own - so little by little she takes in a bunch of homeless people, orphans and oddballs: the pipe hen Marianne, Captain Knaak, the Zappergeck and the Puddingbrumsel, the musical pig Baby Hübner, the stumbling bird, the Erbsenstein brothers and even the decent llama who sleeps a lot. Together they turn the house upside down and open the doors to happiness. But with so many charges there is of course no money left for the rent. Brewery director Maulwisch starts to make a fuss!

Cat with Hat

Bastian Balthasar Bux is a completely normal boy, or at least that's what he always thought... until one day his whole life changed.
Teased and laughed at by his classmates, he takes refuge after school in Karl Konrad Koreander's antiquarian bookshop. There he discovers a mysterious book entitled
The Neverending Story , which immediately captivates him. As he begins to read, reality around him seems to blur and he is immersed in the
magical realm of Phantásien, which is threatened by "Nothingness". There he learns about the Childlike Empress, who is terminally ill, about the heroic Atreyu, and about Auryn, the symbol of power and wisdom. He also learns that all of Phantásien's hope rests on the shoulders of the young warrior Atreyu, who is to search for a human child. The further he reads, the more Bastian seems to become a part of the story. Is he the one Atreyu is looking for and who holds the fate of this magical world in his hands? That can't be true, he of all people is supposed to be a hero?

The Neverending Story

Get your tickets for the Posse 2025 now! It's best to do it today, because, like every year: on Ash Wednesday, everything is over!

Come in, dear audience! This time we are going on a little journey through time with the farce. We are taking you to the carnival season of the late 1950s and looking behind the scenes of the fair that was taking place at that time. Life, love, stress at the Määnzer Mess ! As the title suggests, the worries and needs of people back then are actually the same as they are today! Was everything better in the past? Or maybe not? Does the journey through time show us that some problems could be solved very easily?

Everything revolves or: Life, love, stress at the Määnzer Mess

A collective energy is released, flows through the bodies, burns and creates new forces. Like masses that charge themselves and pass on impulses, connections are created that support and encourage each other. In this dance, the bodies form a living field of tension, the echo of which pulsates through the floor. 35 performers between the ages of 12 and 80 combine to form a network of tension and connection.

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The Beautiful Helena

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Showmaster is my professi...

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Non-Existent

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What you want

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Magic Town (UA)

Staatstheater Mainz

Fritz Bauer Ultras

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Nosferatu

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Yesterday

Staatstheater Braunschweig

The Super Election

Staatstheater Braunschweig

Mephisto

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The Snow Queen Musical th...

Staatstheater Mainz

The Fall of the House of ...

Staatstheater Mainz

Confessions of Felix Krul...

Staatstheater Mainz

L'Aiglon

Staatstheater Mainz

Beacon

Staatstheater Mainz

Camera Obscura (UA)

Staatstheater Mainz

Cat with Hat

Staatstheater Mainz

The Neverending Story

Staatstheater Mainz

Everything revolves or: L...

Staatstheater Mainz

Echoes of Tension

Staatstheater Mainz