Lukas Rüppel

Geboren 1985, absolvierte Lukas Rüppel sein Schauspielstudium an der Hochschule für Schauspielkunst «Ernst Busch» Berlin. Bereits währenddessen war er in der Regie von Claus Peymann am Berliner Ensemble auf der Bühne zu erleben. Sein erstes Engagement führte ihn 2010 an das Schauspiel Stuttgart, wo er u. a. mit Regisseur*innen wie Claudia Bauer, Jan Neumann, Peter Kastenmüller, Johanna Wehner und Christian Weise zusammenarbeitete. Von 2013 bis 2017 war er Ensemblemitglied am Schauspiel Frankfurt und in Inszenierungen u. a. von René Pollesch, Stephan Kimmig, Bastian Kraft, Alexander Eisenach und Christopher Rüping zu sehen, bevor er als an das Staatsschauspiel Dresden wechselte und dort u. a. mit Sebastian Baumgarten, Jan-Christoph Gockel und Sebastian Hartmann arbeitete. Seit der Spielzeit 2019/2020 ist er festes Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater. 

Performing in

«Agnes Bernauer», first performed in the GDR in 1977, starts like a stop-motion fairy tale: after the death of her mother, Agnes is sent out to work by her bankrupt father. But she is unable to believe that she will find a profession that «gives her pleasure», and decides to marry money. Her rise in society happens quickly: Agnes becomes pregnant and takes Albrecht as a husband: a squeamish only child and mother’s boy who is pampered in the golden cage of the Werdenfels’ family business.

Agnes Bernauer

«Danton’s Death», written by the 22-year-old Georg Büchner in a mere five weeks in 1835 following extensive research, is based on historical sources and documents from the French Revolution, whose maxims of «liberty, equality and fraternity» shaped our understanding of modern European democracies. However, Büchner does not tell of the triumphant beginnings, the storming of the Bastille as part of a popular uprising that continues to be celebrated today, focusing instead on a few days towards the end of the Jacobins’ so-called reign of terror in the spring of 1794.

Dantons Tod (Danton’s Death)

In June 1816 the «Medusa», the fastest frigate of its time, sets to sea. Its destination is Saint-Louis in Senegal. There are two hundred and forty people on board – besides the sailors, most of them are soldiers, but they also include the colony’s Governor and his family together with priests, teachers, doctors and engineers. Two days’ journey from their destination the ship runs aground on a sandbank and splits. As there is not enough room for everyone in the lifeboats, a raft is cobbled together for the lifeboats to tow on shore. But as soon as they set off, the rudderless and heavily overloaded raft is left behind by the boats on which the dignitaries are rescuing themselves. Of one hundred and seventeen men only fifteen will survive. Many of them will fall victim to their own comrades because the few goods they were able to save – barrels of wine, sodden biscuits, a few weapons and valuables – are as heavily fought over as the power the make decisions about possible rescue measures.

Der Schiffbruch der Fregatte Medusa (The shipwreck of the frigate Medusa)
Marstall Café, 20.00 o'clock
Wed 18 Oct

Hamsun’s trilogy tells the story of a man who feels he has been overlooked by the elites that set the tone and cheated of social recognition. The philosopher Ivar Kareno evolves from a 30-year-old radical and anti-liberal writer on the fringes of poverty into a 40-year-old private tutor to the two sons of a businessman in a distant coastal region. Here Kareno sits brooding in his writing tower, while an infectious fever descends on people, arriving from the North, the businessman Otermann is driven mad by his wealth and a strange man wanders between the houses, rumoured to be justice. Ten years later, the 50-year-old Kareno is still hoping for a major turning point in his life. And he will indeed reach a milestone where he must decide whether he will remain true to the radical ideas of his youth or to pursue a career that is more measured politically.   

Spiel des Lebens (The game of life)

When Goethe set «Götz von Berlichingen» down on paper in 1771 in a true writing frenzy, the 22-year-old writer was still a complete unknown. This came to an abrupt end with the publication of «Götz», as suddenly the young poet was being talked about everywhere. Goethe’s early work is a powerful stage epic with over fifty locations, several plots running in parallel and a huge cast of characters. What is more: Goethe dispensed with all the customary conventions that 18th century drama had been using up to that point.

Götz von Berlichingen
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Tue 24 Oct
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Thu 02 Nov

«Peer, you’re lying!»: Henrik Ibsen immediately highlights the key theme of his dramatic poem  in its opening line – the blurred boundary between illusion and reality. Because Peer, whose youth is shaped by the poverty of his farming background, continually reinvents himself with the aid of stories, lies and the arts of fabulation – as a cosmopolitan, a colonial master and even an Emperor.

Peer Gynt
Premiere
Residenztheater
Sat 14 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Tue 17 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Mon 23 Oct
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Fri 03 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Sat 11 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Mon 20 Nov
Residenztheater, 19.00 o'clock
Tue 21 Nov

In her new work, the director Claudia Bauer, who has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen four times and is renowned for her work with fast and furious acting ensembles, now tackles someone who typifies Munich, the brilliant comedian Karl Valentin. In her usual, opulent stage language she will devise a homage to the Bavarian whose anarchic approach to language led the critic Alfred Kerr to invent the term «Wortzerklauberer», someone who steals words and tears them to pieces.

Valentiniade. Sportliches Singspiel mit allen Mitteln (VALENTINIADE. SPORTING SINGSPIEL WITH NO HOLDS BARRED)

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