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Gerd Dudenhöffer plays Heinz Becker - DOD - Das Leben ist das Ende

Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 20:00

Alte Mälzerei Kultur und Tagungszentrum, Mosbach, Germany

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Gerd Dudenhöffer plays Heinz Becker - DOD - Das Leben ist das Ende — Alte Mälzerei Kultur und Tagungszentrum, Mosbach
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DOD - the show that was so abruptly halted by the pandemic in March 2020 - is coming back in spring 2025 in a revised version. A handful of earlier performances and growing audience demand led Gerd Dudenhöffer to consider reviving it.

DOD
Das Leben ist das Ende
Gerd Dudenhöffer as Heinz Becker

Church bells. Sonorous. Gloomy. Then suddenly cold white light. Heinz Becker comes home - from the funeral straight into the kitchen. Black suit, five calla lilies in hand: "I forgot to throw them into the grave." So now they sit on the kitchen table. What can you do!?

"Want another beer?" - that warm, automatic question belonged to another life. Now he has to decide for himself. The familiar routine? Gone. Nothing is the way it was. His everyday life - collapsed. And on top of it all, the grief. A heavy, brooding sadness. An awkward helplessness. And slowly he begins to muse, to reflect, to work through it all...

DOD is theatrical "cabaret noir" - tightly directed, black and white, light and dark, carefully balancing tragedy and comedy. Tragicomic, in the truest sense. Because Heinz is Heinz. "Dead certain".

Copyright: Dudenhöffer