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Linkerhand
Date details
- Date Monday, 25/November/2024 19:30 bis 21:10 (2 more dates)
- Venue Maxim Gorki Theater
- Address Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Public transportation
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Train (S-Bahn)
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
- S1
- S2
- S25
- S26
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S Hackescher Markt
- S3
- S5
- S7
- S9
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S Oranienburger Str.
- S1
- S2
- S25
- S26
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
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Underground
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U Museumsinsel
- U5
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U Unter den Linden
- U5
- U6
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
- U6
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U Hausvogteiplatz
- U2
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U Museumsinsel
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Bus
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Staatsoper
- 100
- N5
- 300
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Universitätsstr.
- M1
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U Museumsinsel
- 100
- N5
- 300
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U Unter den Linden
- 100
- N5
- 300
- 147
- N6
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Werderscher Markt
- 147
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
- 147
- 245
- N6
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S Hackescher Markt
- M1
- N42
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Berlin, Dorotheenstr./Friedrichstr.
- 147
- 245
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Berliner Schloss
- 147
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Französische Str.
- 147
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
- N42
- 100
- 200
- N2
- N5
- N8
- N40
- N60
- N65
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S Oranienburger Str.
- M1
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Neumannsgasse
- 147
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U Rotes Rathaus
- 200
- N2
- N8
- N40
- N42
- N60
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Friedrichstr./Reinhardtstr.
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- 245
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U Oranienburger Tor
- M1
- N6
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Staatsoper
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Tram
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Am Kupfergraben
- 12
- M1
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Georgenstr./Am Kupfergraben
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- M1
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Universitätsstr.
- 12
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
- 12
- M1
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Monbijouplatz
- M5
- M1
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S Hackescher Markt
- M5
- M4
- M6
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S Oranienburger Str.
- M5
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Spandauer Str./Marienkirche
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- M4
- M6
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U Oranienburger Tor
- 12
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Am Kupfergraben
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Train
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
- RE1
- RE8
- RB23
- RE2
- RB22
- RE7
- RB20
- FEX
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S+U Friedrichstr. Bhf
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Linkerhand
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© Maxim Gorki Theater - 2024
»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 hands on to learn about the extent to which the architecture of a city shapes its inhabitants’ attitude toward life, and it seems to me that it contributes to the formation of the soul just as much as literature and painting, music, philosophy...« Brigitte Reimann, from her diaries and correspondence
»Why shouldn’t I enjoy my life? In ten or twenty years, everything will be over,« writes Brigitte Reimann, who was just 22 years old at the time, in her diary. And before she could turn 40, everything really would be over. She dies of cancer. Nevertheless, in her last novel, which would become a cult favourite, she created a sister »in spirit«, who lives on to this day. A merciless lover much like the author, the young architect Franziska Linkerhand chooses, after the »Wall«, the workers’ state of the GDR over her bourgeois origins. A character who polarizes, who hates, in all systems, the »flag-wavers«, »mediocre and cowardly idiots«. She is vital, rough, open, and hard for the real-existing patriarchy to bear. Moved by the dream of an advanced and yet social architecture, Franziska decides against a brilliant career and chooses the reality of Neustadt instead. This model of both functional and »beautiful socialist city«, the great experiment, quickly deteriorates, however, into the site of the »organised blunder«.
What drives the young architect is the love–hate relationship with construction sites, planning offices, the drunken nights, the men and women, the restlessly dangerous world of work and workers.
Sebastian Baumgarten reconstructs Franziska Linkerhand from different perspectives as a modern, contemporary female figure who neither wants nor is able to adapt to the constraints of life without a fight. On a stage designed by architect Sam Chermayeff, her dream is renegotiated, the dream of the »need to dream« that won’t come to an end as long as we keep moving.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Premiere 18/October 2024
Foto: Esra RotthoffStage photos: Ute LangkafelTrailer: Schnittmenge
»Why shouldn’t I enjoy my life? In ten or twenty years, everything will be over,« writes Brigitte Reimann, who was just 22 years old at the time, in her diary. And before she could turn 40, everything really would be over. She dies of cancer. Nevertheless, in her last novel, which would become a cult favourite, she created a sister »in spirit«, who lives on to this day. A merciless lover much like the author, the young architect Franziska Linkerhand chooses, after the »Wall«, the workers’ state of the GDR over her bourgeois origins. A character who polarizes, who hates, in all systems, the »flag-wavers«, »mediocre and cowardly idiots«. She is vital, rough, open, and hard for the real-existing patriarchy to bear. Moved by the dream of an advanced and yet social architecture, Franziska decides against a brilliant career and chooses the reality of Neustadt instead. This model of both functional and »beautiful socialist city«, the great experiment, quickly deteriorates, however, into the site of the »organised blunder«.
What drives the young architect is the love–hate relationship with construction sites, planning offices, the drunken nights, the men and women, the restlessly dangerous world of work and workers.
Sebastian Baumgarten reconstructs Franziska Linkerhand from different perspectives as a modern, contemporary female figure who neither wants nor is able to adapt to the constraints of life without a fight. On a stage designed by architect Sam Chermayeff, her dream is renegotiated, the dream of the »need to dream« that won’t come to an end as long as we keep moving.
WATCH THE TRAILER
Premiere 18/October 2024
Foto: Esra RotthoffStage photos: Ute LangkafelTrailer: Schnittmenge
Artists/Collaborators: Aleksandar Radenković, Katja Riemann, Falilou Seck, Maria Simon, Alexandra Sinelnikova, Till Wonka, Sebastian Baumgarten, Eleonore Carrière, Chris Kondek, Holger Kuhla
Runtime: Mon, 25/11/2024 to Thu, 12/12/2024
Alternative events
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Fremd
During the economic boom of post-war Germany, nobody wanted to be associated with the issues: the Nazi-crimes of the past, the rupture of civilisation and the Holocaust. The murders were banished from memory, but the pain remained. And even today, nobody... moreabout: Fremd
- Date:
- until 28/04/2025 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Berliner Ensemble - Neues Haus
- Address:
- Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price:
- from €30.75
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Mein Herz dein Bunker - Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Next date:
- Mein Herz dein Bunker
- Date:
- Monday, 25/November/2024 19:30 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Deutsches Theater Berlin - Kammerspiele
- Address:
- Schumannstraße 13 A, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price:
- from €21.55
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Halts Maul, Kassandra! - Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Next date:
- DT Spezial: Halts Maul, Kassandra!
- Date:
- Monday, 25/November/2024 20:00 (1 more date)
- Venue:
- Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Address:
- Schumannstraße 13 A, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
- Price:
- from €19.25
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Die zwölf Geschworenen
Kriminalstück von Reginald Rose Regie: Wolfgang Rumpf Ausstattung: Manfred Bitterlich Es ist der heißeste Tag des Jahres. Ein Gewitter liegt in der Luft. An diesem Tag findet der letzte Tag eines schwerwiegenden und an sich eindeutigen Mordprozesses... moreabout: Die zwölf Geschworenen
- Date:
- Monday, 25/November/2024 20:00
- Venue:
- Berliner Kriminal Theater
- Address:
- Palisadenstraße 48, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain
- Price:
- from €34.00
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Die zwölf Geschworenen - Berliner Kriminal Theater
Kriminalstück von Reginald Rose Es ist der heißeste Tag des Jahres. Ein Gewitter liegt in der Luft. An diesem Tag findet der letzte Tag eines schwerwiegenden und an sich eindeutigen Mordprozesses mit schier erdrückender Beweislast statt: Ein 17jähriger... moreabout: Die zwölf Geschworenen - Berliner Kriminal Theater
- Next date:
- Die zwölf Geschworenen
- Date:
- Monday, 25/November/2024 20:00
- Venue:
- Berliner Kriminal Theater
- Address:
- Palisadenstraße 48, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain
- Price:
- from €42.85
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