Booklet: Last Exit Europa

Der Cora Frost / Cora Peter Frost tours as a singer-songwriter and, alongside engagements as a director, singer, and actor—among others at Sophiensæle, Ballhaus Ost, Martin-Gropius-Bau, with Pina Bausch, Kresnik, and at Theater Thikwa—has founded various groups and bands. Since 2004, he has increasingly worked with the anarchist puppet theatre Helmi, the punk opera group Glanz & Krawall, and the international performance group La Fleur; he writes his own plays, songs, and performances, and works as a vocalist.

He has collaborated with film directors Rudolf Thome, Christian Frosch, and Uli Decker, for whom he also composed film music. His most recent works include staging his play Die Bucht der dicken Kinder at the Sophiensæle in Berlin, Männer in Garagen, a festival in garage courtyards in Pankow, and Riesenhaft, a production by Theater Hora, Puppentheater Helmi, and Schauspielhaus Zürich, which was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen in 2024 (direction and performance); as well as Barbarilla at TD Berlin.

Music: as Peter Frost & Band with love me – sexmusic, Zucker & Butter Band, and an immersive Else Lasker-Schüler transformation at the bjv.

Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote: “Cora Frost shaped Munich in the 1980s through performances in clubs and bars. She/he was already queer at a time when the term was still largely unknown in Germany.” Cora Peter Frost is not interested in the confined art space; the street should always be brought onto the stage—the life itself. As a sign of this, Cora Peter initially often wore a bandage on the forehead in performances. Over time, the work has evolved more toward the shamanic and immersive.

Queer-feminist concert performance.
A total work of art made of costume, music, and discourse:
this is Die Schlangenknaben.

Electronic operatic music. Schumann, Purcell, and Swabian folk tunes with punchy, glittering beats. Boy and snake in one. Dirty high culture. Open to genre and gender, and never too precious to get its hands dirty.

Delicate bells, big balls, Mozart’s bosom buddies.
Uproar across the centuries. We bring the boys into the club, run across scorched earth, and lure the snakes out of the undergrowth. We cultivate a refined tone—and our pubic hair.

Carla Wierer

Carla Wierer is an actor, musician, and producer of theatre and performance projects.

In her work, she connects social issues with artistic experimentation, creating spaces for exchange, reflection, and shared thinking and experience. She explores historical continuities and their impact on contemporary social developments, linking local perspectives with global questions. Her projects are often developed through collective processes. Carla composes and produces music for dance and theatre productions and performs with the Post Apocalyptic Café Orchestra. An important part of her artistic practice is the music and performance collective Die Schlangenknaben. With her music project Carla Brunndorf, she released her debut album Trink aus, mein Schatz in 2025.

Viola Schmitzer

Viola Maria Schmitzer works as a performer, horn player, and project leader at the intersection of music theatre, body, and space.

Her artistic practice brings together sound, movement, and staging while questioning conventional performance settings. Influenced by her work with the Stegreif Orchester, she develops formats between concert and intervention that aim for direct encounters with the audience. In her outreach work, she initiates participatory projects for diverse target groups. Most recently, she realized Wunderwald at BluBoks, a music theatre project with 70 children that intertwines artistic and social spaces.

Jakob*

Jakob*, a Berlin-based performer, seeks out the uncontrollable, embraces failure, and asks who is actually invited to take part.

Together with the queer-feminist performance collective Die Schlangenknaben, Jakob* appropriates spaces and repertoire—dirty high culture, joyfully riding on male-dominated cultural history. In 2022, the album so haarig was released; with Flötenzauber – a delicate sabotage after Mozart, they have performed at venues and festivals including berlin is not., the Hygiene Museum Dresden, and the at.tension Festival.

With the company Jakob* & Schleiff, they create participatory works on sexuality and identity for young audiences, including at Theater im Delphi Berlin and at the B.A.L.L. of the Fonds Darstellende Künste.

Laura Laabs is an independent director and writer. She was born in East Berlin in 1985, studied political science and film studies, and later directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. After graduating, she continued there as a master’s student under Andreas Kleinert.

In her first film, Grandchildren of History, she portrayed her grandmother Sybille Gerstner. The film screened, among others, in the international competition at the Visions du Réel festival in Nyon, where it received the award for “Most Innovative Short Film.”

Her feature film Red Stars Over the Field premiered at numerous festivals in 2025 before its theatrical release. It received several awards, including the Max Ophüls Critics’ Prize and the German Film Critics’ Award.

Laabs has directed several short films and music videos. She also works as a radio play director and, among other projects, adapted the 13-part audio series Girl, Woman, etc., for which she was awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in 2025.

She works as a writer on screenplays, project development, and her own prose texts. In June 2025, she read at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. Her debut novel Adlergestell was published in August 2025 by Tropen Verlag.

Laura Laabs is a co-founder of the feminist collective r.O.k.s. and has been selected for, among others, the mentoring program Into the Wild and the Villa Serpentara Fellowship 2026 of the Junge Akademie der Künste. Last Exit Europa is her first stage work.

Laabs lives in Berlin and Bad Kleinen.

Composer and actor Leo Solter is a native Berliner. He released his first recordings—primarily in the field of electronic club music—at the age of 16. From the age of 19, he began composing stage music for various theatres, including Deutsches Theater Berlin, Meininger Staatstheater, Theater Ulm, and Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater Schwerin.

He has also composed music for the feature film Lange Nacht, the silent film Der Andere, as well as numerous short films.

He is a member and bandleader of 21 Downbeat, an inclusive band of the RambaZamba Theatre (RZt), for which he has also composed several stage scores. As part of the series Hi Freaks and commissioned productions by RZt for the Pop-Kultur Festival, he has collaborated with artists such as Nicola Rost (Laing), Andreas Spechtl, Jens Friebe, T.Raumschmiere, and Tanga Elektra.

Together with Berlin-based rapper and singer Romano, he composed and performed a contemporary interpretation of Wagner’s Tannhäuser for the festival Berlin is not at the Ring in 2019.

He is involved in various musical projects, including the duo Resident Kafka, the band Kein Zweiter, and the trio LeJuKa. Together with poet and singer Miss Tigra, he forms the project Tigra & Leo.

Leo Solter’s compositions are partly created using self-built electroacoustic sound generators, effect devices, and manuals.

Although born in Hamburg, Dominik Kremerskothen very much enjoys living and working in Berlin. He studied architecture in London (AA) and Munich (TU). At the AA, he worked on the construction of The Most Beautiful House in the World; at the TU, he explored how to shape construction itself.

After graduating, he worked on various building projects in Germany and the UK, did some teaching, and was co-editor of the architectural publication sexymachinery in London. He loves anything that is well told and believes that ideas are rooted in emotions.

In 2005, Dominik discovered light and time—as building materials. From then on, he helped turn words into worlds, and since 2009 has worked primarily as a production designer.

Sophie Peters is a Berlin-based costume designer. Following practical training, she studied costume design at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since 2018, she has been working as a freelance costume designer for theatre and film.

Initially focusing mainly on theatre, she has worked at venues including Theater Bonn, Neuköllner Oper, Staatstheater Meiningen, and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. Since 2021, she has increasingly been working in film, including on the feature films The Ordinaries (dir. Sophie Linnenbaum), Red Stars Over the Field (dir. Laura Laabs), Punching the World (dir. Constanze Klaue), and Thanks for Nothing (dir. Stella Markert).

After living and working in Berlin for about fifteen years, I have worked as a cinematographer on various productions, ranging from classical fiction to experimental films. My interest lies in going beyond the mere creation of visually appealing images and experimenting with unconventional film techniques and analog forms.

I have collaborated with artists and directors such as Ann Oren, Pablo González, C.S. Prince, Laura Laabs, and León & Cosiña, among others.

These projects have been screened in cinemas or shown at major festivals such as the Berlinale, Sundance, Rotterdam, FICCI, Black Maria, and NY Underground, where they have received important awards and prizes.

Dennis Depta, born in Cottbus in 1988, is a dramaturg, performer, and musician. Since 2014, he has been part of the Berlin-based (music) theatre group glanz&krawall, with which he has been boldly seeking confrontation with the rest of society—from the high culture of opera to the poetic lostness of a solo entertainer in a village disco. Together with director Marielle Sterra, he brings formats from popular culture such as wrestling, circus, punk concerts, and horse racing into the theatre, while also increasingly taking theatre into urban spaces such as clubs, beach baths, and psychiatric institutions.

Since 2019, Depta and Sterra have initiated the inclusive theatre and music festival series BERLIN is not…, for which music acts and performing arts groups alike adapt operas by Richard Wagner & Co. KG for a broad audience. Since the 2025/2026 season, Depta has been dramaturg at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. He is also guitarist in the bands SCHROTTI STAR ORCHESTER and KANAL. Depta believes that art comes from wanting, not from ability.

Cara Freitag, born in Mainz, completed internships and worked as an assistant at Oper Wuppertal after finishing high school in 2016. She then studied theatre studies and philosophy in Berlin, while also working in the independent scene in the areas of directing and stage design. This was followed by various guest assistant positions, including in Dresden, Wuppertal, and Lucerne.

At the Neuköllner Oper, she is now accompanying LAST EXIT EUROPA as assistant director and production manager for the sixth production.