Pelvis forward. Back straight. Barbell to hips. Lower down. Repeat. Don’t cry. Pain is just weakness leaving the body! Three sets of eight repetitions. Calories burned 168 kcal, weight loss 23g. These, you wimp, are deadlifts. Life is a gym: this is not a place to play. This is work. The will subdues the body, […]
Dead silence. Berlin in silence. White noise on the radio. Music has been banned. Only the birds are allowed to sing. But from the barricaded cellar of the Neuköllner Oper, a group of young people are taking to the streets in resistance. In the blue hour between day and night, the subversive movement that calls […]
A young German-Turkish woman studies law. The law should protect me, should protect everyone – this is the motivation for Seyma, who grew up in an environment characterised by patriarchal violence. In her first case as a defence lawyer, she takes on the defence of a suspected pimp and internationally wanted human trafficker. This brings […]
What are fathers to us? Superfather, godfather, father of the family? How and what were and are they, for us, for the family, for society? Isn’t there still quite a lot of child in us when we meet the father? For better or for worse. And what happens when we finally have to say goodbye […]
Zwei Menschen stehen sich in aller Verletzlichkeit gegenüber, eine Sängerin und ein Sänger. Im Zentrum: das dunkle Märchen von Herzog Blaubart und seine Opernversion von Béla Bartók. Darin die verschlossenen sieben Türen. Was liegt dahinter verborgen? Was Blaubart verstecken will, will Judith entdecken, aufdecken, enthüllen und lässt dabei die Stimmen verstummter Frauen zum Leben erwachen. So werden Blaubarts Türen nicht durch seine Waffen, seine Folter, Macht oder Trauer definiert, sondern durch die Selbstentäußerungen, Schaffenskraft, Freude und Größe fast vergessener Frauen.
Music theatre by Bernhard Glocksin and Albert Tola with music by Taner Akyol, Valentina Bellanova, Derya Yıldırım and Alaa Zouiten After “Bésame mucho”, the new piece by Albert Tola and Bernhard Glocksin: Turkish-Alevi historian Dr Haydar Yıdılrım has spent years researching how music travelled from Persia to Andalusia and from there back to Turkey via […]
“Yours is my whole heart, where you are not, I cannot be…” – Can you still say (sing) that today if you are serious about love? How much sentiment, nostalgia, even kitsch is still possible before it becomes ridiculous? Lisa simply tries it out. She wants to know, the thing with love, the dreams that […]
Come in and take part in the future ritual of the goddesses of fate at the turn of the year! Their world is on the verge of collapse this year. Because the earth’s population is growing – and with it the workload of the trio, who have always woven and cut the threads of human […]
So young, so successful. The YOUNG NKO ORCHESTRA is on tour: Sold-out halls. Thunderous applause. But while the euphoric fans stream out of the concert hall, the ensemble drags itself back to the hotel, exhausted and dissatisfied. But is this even the right hotel and was the elevator there this morning? The rooms were at […]
Strange things happen in the lobby of Hotel Heaven. At five in the morning, three guests meet by chance, but is there such a thing as coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Feininger encounters a “light-seer” named Blanche during check-out, the young journalist Raquel is stuck in the elevator. As soon as she […]
We immerse ourselves in a strange and incomparable world. Six people, the call of a falcon and the dreamlike story of three couples who fight resolutely and courageously for their idea of happiness begins. For the right to make their own decisions and shape their own lives – with or without their own children. Following […]
Junior producer Vanessa Edler is faced with an insurmountable task: she has to make a new blockbuster that won’t offend even the most sensitive viewers: A politically correct version of “Snow White.” The management of her streaming provider expects a box office success for everyone. But is that even possible? Can a politically correct fairy […]
