DRACULA "EVIL HAS A NAME"

What if Dracula were not just told, but felt? If the horror didn't keep its distance, but burrowed into skin, breath and thought? This production breaks with the conventions of mainstream German theatre, which too often frames the myth in political terms rather than letting it work in its raw, original form. There is no distance here - only fear, desire and the complete loss of control.

"Everyone knows Dracula," says director and author Sascha Hödl, "but I was looking for a way to retell the story without losing its original vision. Many productions romanticise the material - so I took it apart and put it back together." "Dracula" becomes an unsparing horror trip: intense, physical, psychologically unsettling. A world takes shape where fiction cracks open and reality steps through. Fresh perspectives collide with the familiar - and that collision is where their power lies: they move and shock anew, without erasing what we already know.

This production dares to do what has become rare on German stages: genuine, unfiltered horror. No winking, no irony - just darkness that draws closer than you'd like. An evening that doesn't end when the curtain falls, but lingers somewhere inside.

THE CAST

For the world premiere of DRACULA, audiences can look forward to a layered ensemble of seven actors - fresh faces alongside names familiar from theatre stages and German television. NICK WILDER, known for years as the ship's doctor in Traumschiff, lends us his voice (off-stage narrator) and will take us to sea as the CAPTAIN OF THE DEMETER through one of the darkest chapters of Bram Stoker's Dracula. TABEA WILLEMSEN is an international actress who will captivate us as LUCY WESTENRA with her emotionally charged performance. The first well-known face from German television to join the cast is DUSTIN SEMMELROGGE...