Cathrin Störmer

Cathrin Störmer absolvierte ihr Schauspielstudium in Berlin. Es folgten Engagements am Landestheater Tübingen, am Theater an der Sihl in Zürich, am Schauspielhaus Zürich und am Theater Kanton Zürich. Cathrin Störmer arbeitete regelmäßig mit verschiedenen Formationen und Regisseur*innen in der freien Theaterszene, u. a. am Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zürich, in der Kaserne Basel, am Schlachthaus Theater Bern, am Theater an der Winkelwiese Zürich und am Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Von 2012 bis 2019 war Cathrin Störmer am Theater Basel engagiert, wo sie u. a. mit Thom Luz, Robert Borgmann, Nora Schlocker, Mateja Koležnik und Simon Stone arbeitete. 2019 folgte sie Andreas Beck ans Residenztheater.

Performing in

Elisabeth Gärtner, a retired architect, has only one more wish: she wants to die. Her beloved husband died of cancer three years ago and without him life has no meaning for her any more. A drug that would allow her to die of her own volition has been refused her. Now the Ethics Council must make a decision on her case. Expert witnesses from the fields of law, medicine and theology argue over the question:  Does a human being have a right to determine their own death? Are doctors allowed to help someone commit suicide? And who do our lives actually belong to? To us? To the state? Or to God?

Gott (God)

One stormy night in 1836, Hans Christian Andersen arrives uninvited at the home of his childhood friend Edvard Collin, who is to marry his fiancée Henriette the next day. Andersen has travelled through the wind and the rain to once again confess his love for Edvard. The family provide a frosty reception and the groom himself is out celebrating his last night as a bachelor. Only Henriette feels attracted to the unconventional charm of their guest, who lives in a fantasy world continually surrounded by characters from his own fairy tales. He magically transforms a sober room into a sparkling underwater landscape and castles of otherworldly beauty. And he starts telling his friend’s fiancée the fairy tale of The Little Mermaid: burning with love for a Prince, she wishes to become human and is willing to sacrifice her voice and her home to do so – risking her life.

Andersens Erzählungen (Andersen’s stories)
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 15 Dec
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Wed 25 Dec
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 29 Dec
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 05 Jan
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
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Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 29 Jan
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Dr. Ruth Wolff is a celebrated doctor and agnostic Jew. When she refuses a Catholic priest access to a young patient in a terminal condition, the incident soon has major repercussions and Ruth finds herself at the centre of a media shitstorm that threatens her entire way of life.

The writer and director Robert Icke has transposed Arthur Schnitzler’s play «Professor Bernhardi» (1912) vividly into the present. The «Times» of London described «The Doctor» as being «as slippery, muscular and complex as a human heart, more intricate the deeper his dissection goes.»

Die Ärztin (The Doctor)
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 09 Dec
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 14 Dec
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Mon 20 Jan

Copenhagen’s working-class district of Vesterbro in the 1920s has little room for the talent and dreams of young Tove. She leaves school at the age of fourteen and is sent against her will to work as a maid and later as a clerical worker. However, she refuses to give up, publishes her early poems and stories and continues to seek her freedom as a writer. In the «Copenhagen Trilogy» Tove Ditlevsen uses her own biography to tell of an escape from a complicated everyday reality into storytelling, skilfully interweaving fiction and reality. Her first-person narrator, with whom she shares a name, delivers a humorous and laconic account of a personal life that is nevertheless political. 

Die Kopenhagen-Trilogie (The Copenhagen Trilogy)
Marstall, 19.00 o'clock
Wed 18 Dec
Marstall, 19.00 o'clock
Mon 30 Dec
Marstall, 19.00 o'clock
Sun 12 Jan

The Australian writer and director Simon Stone took Chekhov’s famous play as the starting point for his rewriting – voted «Play of the Year 2017» in «Theater heute» magazine – that combines rapid fire dialogue, subtle character studies and the ambivalence that arises from them while locating the play thematically in the here and now.

Drei Schwestern (Three sisters)

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