NO start, NO story! And here we go with the 2025/26 season, featuring new artistic direction, a whole host of pop culture, glam, noise, social criticism, musicals, and performances, featuring Björk, Kat Frankie, Anthony Hüseyin, Philipp Glass, Umm Kulthum, Club Gewalt, and many more. And here’s even more NO FUTURE!
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Venue Tour: Neuköllner Perlen
Visit us with the venue tour NEUKÖLLNER PERLEN this Saturday, 7 March! Theatre, but different: the tour offers the chance to locate the independent scene in its historical and architectural context, meet its makers in person, and watch rehearsal excerpts. Berlin performer Bridge Markland will guide participants through the venues and introduce her colleagues. In Neukölln, the tour will also visit TATWERK | Performative Forschung and Heimathafen Neukölln. The venue tour was created by Theaterscoutings Berlin in collaboration with StattReisen Berlin.
Participation costs €18 / reduced €14 and requires registration. Registration is possible at: reservierung(at)theaterscoutings-berlin.de
MEETING POINT
Saturday, 7 March, 14:00 at TATWERK | Performative Forschung (Hasenheide 9, Gewerbehof, 2nd backyard, entrance 1, 3rd floor, 10967 Berlin Kreuzberg)
SCHEDULE
1. Stop: TATWERK | Performative Forschung
2. Stop: Neuköllner Oper
3. Stop: Heimathafen Neukölln
DURATION
Approx. 3 hours
Flashback: Big in Neukölln
Half a year ago, in September 2025, the music theatre group glanz&krawall transformed the courtyard of the Neuköllner Oper into an opera arena with BIG IN NEUKÖLLN! In the “Sonnenlichtspiele,” ordinary people as well as fringe and night-time characters from the neighborhood stepped up to the microphone and became opera stars.
Now you can watch impressions from the event online here:
Fight the Femicide: The Biggest Crime
Almost every third day in Germany, a woman is killed because of her gender. The perpetrators are always men, most often from the immediate social environment. These murders represent the catastrophic, dehumanizing endpoint of psychological and physical violence against partners and ex-partners, daughters, and mothers within patriarchy. Femicide is carried out under the societal guise of “crimes of passion.” On stages across the country, femicides are additionally presented night after night as a “good murder,” a “beautiful murder,” as it is called in Alban Berg’s opera Wozzeck.
The music theatre performance CRIME OF PASSION by Berlin-based performer and singer Anthony Hüseyin investigates the killing of women on the opera stage, its historical roots, and its presence in our everyday lives. Fatma Aydemir, Alvina Chamberland, and Martha-Luise Urbanek also engage with violence against FLINTA+ in their artistic, literary, performative, and journalistic practices – both on a personal and structural level. On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and following Hüseyin’s performance, they will collectively approach the topic of femicide in a talk on November 25.
