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The Berlin City Palace has risen! After it was almost completely destroyed during an air raid in 1945, the GDR leadership demolished it in 1950 as a »relic of the monarchy«, and then built the Palace of the Republic on the same site. moreabout: Der Untertan

Date:

Saturday, 28/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»The theme of tonight is classism, yes, not classicism«. Such a typical Nora Abdel-Maksoud sentence. Her texts The Making-Of, The Sequel and Rabatt have and are still enjoying successful runs at the Gorki. But you just can’t get enough of Abdel-Maksoud’s... moreabout: Café Populaire Royal

Date:

Saturday, 30/November/2024 19:30 (2 more dates)

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

It is one of the most famous stories in world literature. The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, the smoking Caterpillar of the 1865 book are now iconic characters. The story of a girl named Alice who follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland... moreabout: Alice im Wunderland

Date:

Sunday, 15/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Is the contemporary crisis a crisis of masculinity? The time is ripe for new ideas. But even though everything is shifting, a conservative social rollback is emerging. moreabout: In My Room

Date:

until 28/11/2924 (1 more date)

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Emre.Jonas.Taner.Knut.Band.Loud.Angry.Men.Abolish.Struggle.Friendship.Love.Failure.Weakness.Weapon.Honest.Fake.Depression.Alone.Support.Farewell.Death.New.Ciao. Ciao is a performative collage made up of texts and music developed collectively, revolving... moreabout: CIAO

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Ciao

Date:

Monday, 16/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»Even when the world went on and on about the fact that we had no prospects, we knew that the opposite was true. We had experienced too many prospects, had seen things that other children don’t see, while slurping their homemade pumpkin soup«. Arda is... moreabout: Vatermal

Date:

Saturday, 21/December/2024 19:30 (1 more date)

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Every person lives in a reality tunnel, a subjective objectivity. This tunnel cannot be escaped; at best, the degree of distortion can be minimized. moreabout: Operation Mindfuck

Date:

Monday, 23/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Then I arrived here. The train stations, the cars, narrow spaces, damp flats, furniture with feet missing. No father, no fatherland, the second step in the uprooting began. moreabout: Unser Deutschlandmärchen

Date:

Tuesday, 26/November/2024 19:30 (1 more date)

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»A sky full of flies, locusts, wasps, beetles and mosquitos. Trillions of hearts and even more wings. Powerful, majestic swarms gathered together over his head. And they were all interconnected. From every insect a thread was hanging, thin as the threads... moreabout: Hund, Wolf, Schakal

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Hund Wolf Schakal

Date:

Tuesday, 31/December/2024 18:00

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Kafka's story Der Bericht für eine Akademie (A Report to an Academy) recounts an instance of becoming human. An ape called Red Peter has integrated himself seamlessly into imperial and royal high society. There was a time when he was hauled away and imprisoned... moreabout: Ein Bericht für eine Akademie

Date:

Wednesday, 27/November/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»I am so angry at the world, or the system, or myself because I’ve betrayed everything that I didn’t believe in, or did we really believe we were saving the world? moreabout: Und sicher ist mit mir die Welt verschwunden

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Und sicher ist mit mir die Welt...

Date:

Saturday, 14/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

She wants to not just be aware anymore, she wants to see it for herself and understand what’s really happening when people talk about fleeing and refugees. She, actress and author Katja Riemann, travels to various places around the world, getting to know... moreabout: Zeit der Zäune

Date:

Sunday, 15/December/2024 16:00

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»You told me this joke. Two Jews are talking. One of them says, ›I'm emigrating. To Australia.‹ Says the other, ›Australia?! That's so far away!‹ Says the first, ›far away from where?‹ Well. I know you told me that as a joke and that you don't answer... moreabout: Muttersprache Mameloschn

Date:

Friday, 06/December/2024 19:30

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

»Franziska is not a ›fight the battles along the way‹ heroine; she comes full of brilliant plans to this city where there’s nothing but sober arithmetic, quick and cheap construction (...) and now I am trying to get hold of all the people I can get my... moreabout: Linkerhand

Date:

Monday, 25/November/2024 19:30 (2 more dates)

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

The novel Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein by Sasha Marianna Salzmann speaks of the collapse of a political system, of times of societal upheaval and their effects on the lives of two friends, Lena and Tatjana, who left Ukraine in the 1990s to strand... moreabout: Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein

Date:

Wednesday, 01/January/2025 18:00

Venue:

Maxim Gorki Theater

Address:

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte