DRACULA "EVIL HAS A NAME"

What if Dracula were not just told, but felt? If the horror refused to keep its distance and instead crept 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 safe remove here - only fear, desire and the collapse of all 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. So many productions romanticise the material - so I took it apart and rebuilt it from scratch." The result is an unsparing horror trip: visceral, physical, psychologically unsettling. A world where fiction cracks open and reality takes shape. Familiar ground is approached from new angles - and that is precisely where the impact lands: it moves and shocks afresh, without abandoning what audiences 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 can comfortably bear. An evening that does not 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 - familiar and new faces from theatre stages and German television. NICK WILDER, known for years as the ship's doctor in Traumschiff, lends his voice as off-stage narrator and will take us as CAPTAIN OF THE DEMETER through one of the darkest chapters of Bram Stoker's Dracula - out to sea. TABEA WILLEMSEN is an international actress who, as LUCY WESTENRA, will draw audiences in with her emotionally charged performance. The first well-known face from German television to join the cast is DUSTIN SEMMELROGGE...