Bruchsal, Germany
The Badische Landesbühne is a publicly funded regional theatre based in Bruchsal, serving audiences across the Baden region with touring productions. It stages a broad repertoire - drama, musicals, children's theatre - performed both at its home venue and at stages throughout the region. The company has roots going back to the mid-20th century and is one of the few remaining travelling state theatres in Germany.
A multimedia stage adaptation of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, tracing the lives of residents of a Brandenburg lakeside house across a hundred years of German history. Adapted by Daniel Schüßler and Hanna Held for the Badische Landesbühne in Bruchsal.
A stage adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1929 novella, following a family on holiday in fascist Italy who witness the sinister hypnotist Cipolla bend an entire audience to his will.
An apocalyptic comedy by Maria Lazar about God sending Peter and angels to Geneva to find his successor. A 1930s play recently rediscovered and revived.
Premiere of Maria Lazar's end-of-the-world comedy from the 1930s - the League of Nations advertises for a new God, who reluctantly sends Peter and two angels to Geneva, with farcical results.
A stage adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1929 novella, following a family drawn into the hypnotic and menacing show of the conjurer Cipolla against the backdrop of fascist Italy. Premiere at Badische Landesbühne in Bruchsal.
An intimate gathering where audiences meet the actors and directing team of Badische Landesbühne over breakfast, with behind-the-scenes insights into four upcoming premieres of the anniversary season.