Up to now, the employees in the department for passports and residency documents at Lake Constance’s regional office (ZVdBR) had shrugged off the unexpected onrush as a temporary situation. They remained calm and matter-of-fact, even when the disturbing rumour of a “Day X” started to circulate. But when the date was officially confirmed, the offices were suddenly abandoned and the staff disappeared, briefly involved in an unknown mission. Enigmatic cases like these are known on the shores of Lake Constance as a “Tiefer Schweb” (deep dive), in reference to this deepest, most uncharted area of inland sea. Because here, in the area where the borders of Austria, Switzerland and Germany are so close together that you can visit all three countries in the space of a few seconds, civil servants and their relatives have retreated to a secret place: here, they meet out of the public eye and prepare for the inevitable moment of truth.
Christoph Marthaler, who knows how to captivates audiences with his idiosyncratic, poetic music-theatre shows, returns to Munich after a long absence.

With English surtitles. For our seating recommendations please click here.

On November 12 with surtitles in Czech in the context of Festival Deutsche Sprache Prag.

Feat. Sarah Bergh, Hamado Dipama, Dr. Joy Kristin Kalu, Matthias Lilienthal, Maria Muhle, Anta Helena Recke, Jovita Dos Santos, Shaheen Wacker, Hanna Voss and more

When Paula Becker met the much older Otto Modersohn in 1899, she was a young artist who wanted to paint, come what may, whereas he was one of the founders of the artists’ colony in Worpswede and a married man. Nevertheless, a year later the two became a couple. Their first letters already testify to their great affection for one another, but also to their deep artistic affinities. The surprising discovery of a large collection of the correspondence between Otto Modersohn and Paula Modersohn-Becker gives insights into this lively exchange.

Under the title “Episode”, experts and theorists from the environment of the movie magazine “Cargo” each present a production for discussion. In October, Eva Horn, professor of Modern German Literature at the University of Vienna and Ekkehard Knörer, chief editor and joint publisher of the journal Mercury, discuss “House of Cards”, produced and distributed by Netflix – a painful, up-to-date study of the games, intrigues and dark depths of political power.

Yael Ronen, known at the Kammerspiele for her production “Point of No Return”, has already done a guest play at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Munich with “The Situation”. Now, another of her Berlin works can be seen here. In January 2017, the newly founded Exil ensemble of the Gorki Theater, consisting of professional, recently arrived actors from Afghanistan, Syria and Palestine, undertook a two-week bus tour through Germany. “Winterreise” describes their views of their country of exile.

With Maryam Abu Khaled, Mazen Aljubbeh, Hussein AL Shatheli, Till Wonka, Karim Daoud, Kenda Hmeidan, Ayham Majid Agha Stage design Magda Willi Kostüme Sophie Du Vinage Music Yaniv Fridel, Ofer Shabi Video Benjamin Krieg, Patrícia Bateira (Station Mannheim) Puppets Ariel Doron Drawing Esra Rotthoff Dramaturgy Irina Szodruch

We lie anywhere between two and 200 times a day – depending on what we classify as lies: untruths, post truths, exaggerations, omissions, courtesies, set phrases... But how can you spot a lie? Is it when gestures and body language undermine what’s being said? To get to the bottom of how truth is constructed, a hearing and a deaf actress meet one another in the piece “Luegen” (Lies). The stage becomes an experimental space for intentional and unintentional communication, a laboratory of authenticity, which invites the viewer to decipher truth, take a closer look and observe.

Sponsored by the Municipal Department of Arts and Culture in Munich.