Halb zog sie ihn, halb sank er hin

Forget dusty German lessons! When award-winning actress Barbara Auer and "humor expert" Christian Maintz take the stage, poetry becomes a living spectacle.

Once sung at fairgrounds as street ballads, now masterfully reinterpreted: the duo delivers a wild mix of ballads and narrative poems. Expect the classical and the contemporary, and above all raw emotion.

The programme draws on ballads and moritats by Goethe, Heine, Wilhelm Busch, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Tucholsky, Mascha Kaléko - and Christian Maintz himself. As the Cuxhavener Nachrichten put it: Christian Maintz and the wonderful Barbara Auer complement each other perfectly. The actress is the woman for big feelings: she squeaks, gestures, calls out, whispers and laughs, or recites the classics with such intensity that audiences hang on her every word.