Alexandra Juschkewitsch

For her first production at the Residenztheater, the director Rieke Süßkow, renowned for the thoroughly composed aesthetic of her work, has chosen the last drama of the great Spanish writer Federico García Lorca. Its protagonist Bernarda Alba is a widow who declares eight years of mourning after the death of her husband and turns her house into a form of prison for her five daughters while unquestioningly accepting the patriarchal system of provincial Spain.

The fawn Bambi was not created by Walt Disney, but by the Viennese writer Felix Salten. As a passionate hunter he described the rough cycle of life from Bambi’s birth to an advanced age in his »Life Stories from the Forest« from 1922. The musician and director Schorsch Kamerun tells how every new day in the forest represents an existential challenge for the animal world with his ensemble in a colourful and dangerous revue.

Ludwig Tieck was way ahead of his time with his masterpiece written in 1797: in his hands the fairy tale of a puss in boots becomes an absurd and comic »play within a play« that leaps joyously across the borders of theatre and reality. 

24 hours in the Englischer Garten. Somewhere between Monopteros and the Haus der Kunst – in ten scenes and each time in pairs – DJ Ada, businessman Franzi, poet Graf, cleaner Maro and sex worker Eleonore meet. The multi-award-winning playwright Anja Hilling rethinks Arthur Schnitzler’s »Reigen« for the present.