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 tends to frame the Dracula myth in political terms rather than letting it hit in its raw, original form. There is no safe 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. So many productions romanticise the material - so I took it apart and rebuilt it from scratch." The result is an unsparing horror trip: intense, physical, psychologically unsettling. A world where fiction cracks open and reality takes shape. Fresh angles collide with the familiar - and that collision is where the power lies: shocking and moving in equal measure, 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 gets closer than you can comfortably bear. An evening that does not end when the curtain falls, but lingers somewhere inside.

THE CAST

The world premiere of DRACULA brings a layered ensemble of seven actors - fresh faces alongside names familiar from German theatre and television. NICK WILDER, known for years as the ship's doctor in Traumschiff, lends his voice as off-stage narrator and will guide us as the CAPTAIN OF THE DEMETER through one of the darkest chapters in Bram Stoker's Dracula. TABEA WILLEMSEN joins as an international actress who will hold the audience in her grip as LUCY WESTENRA. The first well-known face from German television to be confirmed is DUSTIN SEMMELROGGE...