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18:00 — 20:05
Große Bühne
Theatre day, with english surtitles
Director: Nuran David Calis
Introduction 17:15 + 17:30 at Rangfoyer + digital
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Director: Salome Schneebeli
A longing for America drives the protagonist of Giorgio Ferretti’s play into a state of restlessness. It’s not all that easy to describe America – and nobody knows whether it will be possible to find America one day. But the search seems to be many things at once: hopeful, desperate, painful, fulfilling and sensual.
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Director: Thirza Bruncken
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Nullerjahre
Jugend in blühenden Landschaften
Studio Production 2024
Stage version by Marco Damghani
Stage version by Marco Damghani
15:00 — 16:20
Große Bühne
20:00 — 22:00
Diskothek
Director: Regine Dura & Hans-Werner Kroesinger
19:30 — 22:30
Große Bühne
Raphael Moussa Hillebrand presents the audience success from 2022 this time as the festival opening. Accompanied by live music, the dance competition breaks down all limits in style and creates a synthesis of the arts: a celebration with the audience!
19:30 — 20:45
Diskothek
Performance cancelled by the organiser
Premiere
With follow-up discussion
On his journey from the refugee camp in Jenin to exile in Norway and back again as artistic director of the legendary Freedom Theatre, Palestinian actor Ahmed Tobasi explores the power of cultural resistance.
19:30 — 20:30
Große Bühne
With follow-up discussion with Marta Górnicka in the Rangfoyer. Moderation: Prof. Dr. Patrick Primavesi
The globally acclaimed choir of 21 Polish, Belarusian and Ukrainian women has a clear message: we must not forget the war unleashed by Russia on Ukrainian soil. Here they counter the violence with warmth and solidarity – and the concentrated power of their voices.
21:30 — 22:45
Diskothek
Performance cancelled by the organiser
With follow-up discussion
On his journey from the refugee camp in Jenin to exile in Norway and back again as artistic director of the legendary Freedom Theatre, Palestinian actor Ahmed Tobasi explores the power of cultural resistance.
20:00 — 21:00
Große Bühne
Audio description
euro-scene Leipzig
R. OSA
Tactile stage tour: 19:15
With follow-up discussion in the foyer 1.
With follow-up discussion in the foyer 1.
A brilliant one-woman show based on the aerobics videos of Hollywood legend Jane Fonda. The famous Italian actress Claudia Marsicano turns the ideal image of a woman's body celebrated there completely on its head with irresistible humor.
19:30 — 21:15
Residenz
Tatort actress Carol Schuler and her team investigate the suicide of a priest of Vietnamese origin in the Swiss Alps. A story in which violence is inflicted on those who are considered foreigners. With the Leipzig choir chorbeau.
19:30 — 21:00
Diskothek
With follow-up discussion. Moderation: Eyck-Marcus Wendt
In this sensitive solo, actress Fotini Banou saves a little-known chapter of the extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis from oblivion. With tenderness and tenacity, this extraordinary evening tells of mourning for a lost world, but also of resistance.
15:30 — 17:15
Residenz
Audio description
Tactile stage tour: 14.30
With follow-up discussion
With follow-up discussion
Tatort actress Carol Schuler and her team investigate the suicide of a priest of Vietnamese origin in the Swiss Alps. A story in which violence is inflicted on those who are considered foreigners. With the Leipzig choir chorbeau.
17:30 — 19:00
Diskothek
In this sensitive solo, actress Fotini Banou saves a little-known chapter of the extermination of European Jewry by the Nazis from oblivion. With tenderness and tenacity, this extraordinary evening tells of mourning for a lost world, but also of resistance.
19:30 — 21:00
Große Bühne
With follow-up discussion with Gisèle Vienne and a book launch. Moderation: Spector Books
Gisèle Vienne's masterpiece stylizes the nocturnal ecstasy of 15 raving teenagers in search of community, masterfully slowed down in slow motion. An overwhelming theater experience!
19:30
Foyer 1
Stern 111
Reading with Andreas Keller and Guests
Carl Bischoff drives his Shiguli from Gera to Berlin, where he witnesses the beginning of a new era of opportunities together with the “smart pack”. At regular intervals, Andreas Keller and his guests read from Lutz Seiler’s novel “Stern 111” about the time after German reunification.
19:30 — 20:45
Foyer 1
„Spieglein, Spieglein, halt's Maul, wir müssen nachdenken“
with texts of Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist
Artistic direction: Ellen Neuser
Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist give a voice to women who consider social expectations – beautiful, ugly, old, young, envious, empathetic, suffering, cheerful, questioning, complex and contradictory women, all played by Paulina Bittner.
19:30 — 20:40
Foyer 1
Ophelias Tränen
Ein Abend über und unter Wasser für alle süßen Mäuse von und mit Paula Winteler
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Von Wunden und Wundern (UA)
Director: Marco Damghani
18:00 — 21:10
Große Bühne
Theatre day, with english surtitles
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Introduction 17:15 + 17:30 at Rangfoyer + digital
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance Lachmesse
Bodo Wartke
„Antigone“ – das Theaterstück mit Bodo Wartke!
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
Premiere, with German sign language
Director: Salome Schneebeli
19:30 — 22:00
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
with German sign language
Director: Salome Schneebeli
With follow-up discussion with German sign language
13:00 — 17:30
Große Bühne
VISIONALE LEIPZIG
Medienfestival & Show mit Preisverleihung
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
Heißes Wasser für alle
Produktion des Theaterjugendclub „Sorry, eh!“
Director: Yves Hinrichs
10:00 — 11:20
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance
Marc-Uwe Kling
Normal und die Zero Heroes + Neues vom Känguru
09:00 — 10:20
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
09:00 — 10:20
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Nullerjahre
Jugend in blühenden Landschaften
Studio Production 2024
Stage version by Marco Damghani
Stage version by Marco Damghani
20:00 — 21:35
Diskothek
Unfortunately the performance has to be cancelled.
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Niederwald
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
Is this really a good idea? To compensate the loss of your wife by packing up your new-born daughter and the old grandmother and to escape from the city’s plains into high mountain regions, the origins of the lost loved one? To escape towards mourning, as it were?
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance
10:00 — 11:20
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
19:30 — 20:30
Foyer 1
Director: Emily Huber
Ann works in the department for beautiful buttons. Only the most exquisite products are sold here – a secure job in difficult times. But what is that noise behind the wall? What does it mean? When a colleague no longer shows up for work, Ann begins to ask questions – and is caught up in a nightmarish maelstrom of new dangers. An oppressive psycho-horror about power and powerlessness and the exploitability of human beings.
20:00
Residenz
Premiere
19:30 — 22:00
Große Bühne
20:00
Residenz
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
19:30 — 21:20
Große Bühne
with english surtitles
Director: Enrico Lübbe
Introduction 18:45 + 19:00 at Rangfoyer + digital
“On and on. On and on.” Life is a roundabout, constantly spinning. A person approaches here, words drift by there, lights, voices. For Woyzeck, life’s spinning only ever passes him by. “I think if we ever got to heaven, we'd have to help with the thunder”, he says.
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
Director: Rico Dietzmeyer
20:00
Residenz