Since you can't come to the theatre for the time being, the DT will come to you: With our DT Heimspiel Streaming, you can see full-length productions as video streams, introductions and other web formats. New every week, every Tuesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 12 noon on the following day, you can watch DT classics as video-on-demand from the comfort of your own home, as well as premieres and productions as live stream. The live streams are media offers which are only available in real time.
On Thursday, May 28 at 6 p.m. (available until May 29th 12 noon) we will show Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Stefan Pucher at DT Heimspiel Streaming.
On Thursday, May 28 at 6 p.m. (available until May 29th 12 noon) we will show Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, directed by Stefan Pucher at DT Heimspiel Streaming.
Nina Hoss in "Hedda Gabler" © Arno Declair
Digital Radar Ost
The Autoren(theater)tage 2020 will celebrate their kick-off with the international festival Radar Ost – this time as a three-day festival Digital Radar Ost. From June 19 to 21, we invite you to our digital stage. Theatre, texts and artists can be experienced in familiar, previously unknown and virtual spaces as live streams, artist portraits, chats and new digital formats. Now that the borders between countries are closed, cooperations with international artists and theatres are more important than ever. We will publish the complete programme of Digital Radar Ost at the beginning of June.
Autoren(theater)tage 2020
The Autorentheatertage, which was planned for the period from 6-20 June 2020, and the international opening weekend Radar Ost, will take place this year under different auspices. Radar Ost will take place as a digital festival, and the Autorentheatertage will be turned into the Autoren(theater)tage, a year-long project where the focus will be shifted from theatre to playwriting. To this end, the festival will for the first time award play commissions to all playwrights whose premieres would have taken place as guest performances in June. We are looking for short plays and compact forms: literary "seedlings" to plant in the theatre "desert". In autumn 2020, the Deutsches Theater Berlin will celebrate a major playwright’s weekend (Autor_innenwochenende).
In order to bridge the time when you can't come to the Deutsches Theater Berlin and to think about this extraordinary times together with you, we have created the DT Heimspiel Blog. A many-voiced, fragmentary situation report – in pictures, snapshots, found objects, voice messages, food for thought and dialogues – by ensemble members, directors and artists around the DT. Here they report on what gives them strength and comfort, what questions they are concerned with and invite you to participate. Most of the entries however, are in German. Here is a glimps on some of them:
MOMENT REPORT
Insights into everyday life and thinking since the lockdown
Insights into everyday life and thinking since the lockdown
From Budapest
by director András Dömötor
I spend these days in Budapest. It’s so peculiar that The Plague (Die Pest) from Camus now seems like a prophecy. It uses the epidemic not only as a concrete story, but also as a symbolic one, and in Hungary the crisis is twofold, as the political situation is what is truly frustrating.
I often do nothing, or rather try to do nothing, so that the silence that is suddenly there is not covered and disturbed. I try to discover things that I would otherwise not notice, even if it’s just a corner in the flat.
In The Plague you can read: the disaster is never recognised by the humanists, as they don’t believe in it and take it only as a bad dream. I feel that we are also trying to figure out how to be productive and make the most of this time, and can hardly grasp the gravity of the situation and how vulnerable we are. I am sorry for writing a melancholic post.
I often do nothing, or rather try to do nothing, so that the silence that is suddenly there is not covered and disturbed. I try to discover things that I would otherwise not notice, even if it’s just a corner in the flat.
In The Plague you can read: the disaster is never recognised by the humanists, as they don’t believe in it and take it only as a bad dream. I feel that we are also trying to figure out how to be productive and make the most of this time, and can hardly grasp the gravity of the situation and how vulnerable we are. I am sorry for writing a melancholic post.
Budapesten töltöm ezeket a napokat. Milyen különös, hogy a Pestis, ami utólag próféciának tűnik, a fertőzést egyszerre kezeli konkrét és szimbolikus dolognak, és Magyarországon az epidémia ugyanígy megkettőződött, és igazán a politika tevékenykedése az, ami frusztráló.
Sokszor nem csinálok semmit, pontosabban próbálok semmit sem csinálni és nem elfedni a csendet, ami keletkezett. Próbálok olyan dolgokat észrevenni, amiket amúgy nem vennék észre, akár csak egy sarkot a lakásban.
A Pestisben van: a csapást nem veszik észre a humanisták, mert nem hiszik el és csak egy rossz álomnak tartják. Mi is azon törjük a fejünket, hogy legyünk produktívak ebben az időszakban és alig fogjuk fel, hogy mi történik, hogy mennyire sebezhetők vagyunk. Sajnálom, hogy ez egy melankolikus poszt lett.
Sokszor nem csinálok semmit, pontosabban próbálok semmit sem csinálni és nem elfedni a csendet, ami keletkezett. Próbálok olyan dolgokat észrevenni, amiket amúgy nem vennék észre, akár csak egy sarkot a lakásban.
A Pestisben van: a csapást nem veszik észre a humanisták, mert nem hiszik el és csak egy rossz álomnak tartják. Mi is azon törjük a fejünket, hogy legyünk produktívak ebben az időszakban és alig fogjuk fel, hogy mi történik, hogy mennyire sebezhetők vagyunk. Sajnálom, hogy ez egy melankolikus poszt lett.
Photo: András Dömötor
András Dömötör's production of The Plague (Die Pest) had its premiere in Box of the Deutsches Theater in November 2019. In view of the Corona crisis, DT ensemble member Božidar Kocevski, together with cameraman Lorenz Haarmann, has now developed a quarantine version of the work, which you can watch today, Thursday 14 May, from 6 pm on at DT Heimspiel Streaming (available until 15 May, 12 noon).
Click here to go to our DT Heimspiel Blog with more posts to think about and watch:
DENKANSTOSS (THINK TANK)
Short messages, signs of life, situation reports and thoughts about the world and theatre
Short messages, signs of life, situation reports and thoughts about the world and theatre
The first fifteen days
by director Data Tavadze
FIRST MORNING in QUARANTINE. They brought us to the luxurious hotel which otherwise none of us would afford. My plane landed in Batumi instead of Tbilisi, but it doesn't really matter nowadays, or does it?
[DAY ONE] I know what CLUSTER is, it's a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. They let me smoke through the open window on the 11th floor. Not the best idea to let us open that window, I thought.
[DAY TWO] I know for sure I'm not going to perform in France anymore.
[DAY THREE] I have an idea for an art project which is losing it's relevance while I'm writing this sentence.
[DAY FOUR] I fight with my mom over the telephone. FORBIDDEN IN TIMES LIKE THIS!
[DAY FIVE] They tell us they'll bring us to Tbilisi tonight. They don't.
[DAY SIX] They do.
[DAY SEVEN] I don't have books, only two plays with me which I have already directed: one had its premiere, another didn't.
[DAY EIGHT - see DAY SEVEN]
[DAY NINE] I can't watch TV: WHAT THE SITUATION APPEARS TO DEMAND BLABLABLA / I don't like when they say COVID19 it sounds pretentious. My friend tells me:
[DAY TEN] the world will end on Skype,
[DAY ELEVEN] but some say, on Zoom.
[DAY TWELVE] I'm sitting at the window and curtain is behind me. I'm isolating myself further! I start to work.
[DAY THIRTEEN] Mostly writing.
[DAY FOURTEEN] I know nothing will be the same anymore and I like it.
[DAY FIFTEEN] I have hopes, but very carefully. // I AM OUT! // Sun is burning my face. I'm completely red.
[DAY ONE] I know what CLUSTER is, it's a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. They let me smoke through the open window on the 11th floor. Not the best idea to let us open that window, I thought.
[DAY TWO] I know for sure I'm not going to perform in France anymore.
[DAY THREE] I have an idea for an art project which is losing it's relevance while I'm writing this sentence.
[DAY FOUR] I fight with my mom over the telephone. FORBIDDEN IN TIMES LIKE THIS!
[DAY FIVE] They tell us they'll bring us to Tbilisi tonight. They don't.
[DAY SIX] They do.
[DAY SEVEN] I don't have books, only two plays with me which I have already directed: one had its premiere, another didn't.
[DAY EIGHT - see DAY SEVEN]
[DAY NINE] I can't watch TV: WHAT THE SITUATION APPEARS TO DEMAND BLABLABLA / I don't like when they say COVID19 it sounds pretentious. My friend tells me:
[DAY TEN] the world will end on Skype,
[DAY ELEVEN] but some say, on Zoom.
[DAY TWELVE] I'm sitting at the window and curtain is behind me. I'm isolating myself further! I start to work.
[DAY THIRTEEN] Mostly writing.
[DAY FOURTEEN] I know nothing will be the same anymore and I like it.
[DAY FIFTEEN] I have hopes, but very carefully. // I AM OUT! // Sun is burning my face. I'm completely red.
© Data Tavadze
Click here to go to our DT Heimspiel Blog with more posts to think about and watch:
MOMENT REPORT
Insights into everyday life and thinking since the lockdown
Insights into everyday life and thinking since the lockdown
Yang Ge lerns new things in her Berlin exile
The last premiere that could take place at DT was ironically Decameron (Decamerone), based on motifs by Giovanni Boccaccio. The framework story of the novella collection tells of ten young people fleeing their hometown from the plague and telling each other stories against boredom, against the threat and fear. After the premiere the actress Yang Ge could not travel back to her hometown Moscow because she has a Chinese passport and has been stuck in exile in Berlin for more than four weeks. Against the boredom she learned three new things and changed.
Hear for yourself:
Hear for yourself:
© Yang Ge
Cancellation of performances until the end of the season 2019/20
Due to the decision of the Berlin Senate to extend the currently valid ordinance for the containment of the coronavirus in Berlin, all performances at the Deutsches Theater Berlin will be suspended until July 31, 2020. All previously announced events during this period will unfortunately have to be cancelled without replacement and the theatre box office will also remain closed to the public until further notice.
Tickets already purchased can be returned for a refund. If you would like to return your already purchased tickets for the events affected by the performance cancellations, you have the following options:
Tickets already purchased can be returned for a refund. If you would like to return your already purchased tickets for the events affected by the performance cancellations, you have the following options:
We hope to play theatre for you again soon and in the meantime we invite you to follow our digital offer DT Heimspiel on our website and in our social networks.
Postponement of premieres
Due to the current regulations for corona prevention our next premieres will be postponed for an indefinite period.
Box
Dear Yelena Sergeyewna (Liebe Jelena Sergejewna)
Junges DT Production
by Ljudmila Rasumowskaja
Director: Jan Friedrich
by Ljudmila Rasumowskaja
Director: Jan Friedrich
New in our repertoire, Kammerspiele
everyman (dies) (jedermann (stirbt)
by Ferdinand Schmalz
Director: Data Tavadze
Director: Data Tavadze
New in the repertoire, Deutsches Theater
Decameron (Decamerone)
by Kirill Serebrennikov based on the work by Giovanni Boccaccio in ten stories
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Co-production with the Gogol-Center Moscow
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Co-production with the Gogol-Center Moscow
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