Frankfurt, Germany
A cabaret show about Claire Waldoff, a queer icon of German cabaret in the 1920s, featuring songs, texts, and scenes from that era. Ulrike Kinbach and Markus Neumeyer explore nonconformity, authenticity, and the power of humor as resistance.
A staged reading of Wilhelm Busch's tragicomic poem about religious hypocrisy, performed by Pirkko Cremer with Hans Kaspar Scharf on piano.
Mirco Becker traces the history of Frankfurt's famous Zeil street - from imperial residences and legendary department stores to the Goethe family and the arrival of the underground.
A reading with Frankfurt cabaret artist Jo van Nelsen, who tells the story of Erna and Erwin from the Hesselbach series, two characters who get their parents into trouble.
Susanne Hasenstab and Emil Emaille return with their fourth Hessian-dialect comedy show, turning mundane conversations about slippers, cats and washing machines into sharp, absurdist miniature theatre.
A literary evening tracing the life of forgotten Frankfurt poet and improviser Maximilian Leopold Langenschwarz - a Jewish emigrant whose story ends, unresolved, in New York in 1867.
A grand celebration of Hessian dialect with world hits reimagined in the local language. Ticket raffle, announcement of the word of the year, and performances by renowned local artists.
Michael Quast performs an evening of poetry and prose by 19th-century Frankfurt satirist Friedrich Stoltze, whose weekly "Frankfurter Latern" was notorious for its anti-Prussian wit. The show runs about 2 hours with an interval.
