Moritz Treuenfels

Geboren 1988 in Eutin, absolvierte Moritz Treuenfels seine Schauspielausbildung von 2010 bis 2014 an der Otto-Falckenberg Schule in München. Erste Engagements während des Studiums führten ihn an die Münchner Kammerspiele. 2015 wurde er Ensemblemitglied am Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus und erhielt dort 2016 den Publikumspreis «Gustaf» als bester Schauspieler. Zwischen 2016 und 2019 spielte er als Teil des Ensembles im Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam, bis er dann für die Spielzeit 2019/2020 an das Theater Basel wechselte. Seit der Spielzeit 2020/2021 ist Moritz Treuenfels festes Ensemblemitglied am Residenztheater. 2023 wurde er mit dem Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik als bester Darsteller für seine Rolle des Julius im Kinofilm «Axiom» ausgezeichnet.

 

Performing in

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s. 

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 1

New York City in the final months of the Obama Presidency. While the writer Toby Darling feverishly awaits the premiere of his play, his partner Eric Glass spends time with his acquaintance Walter. His conversations with the 55-year-old take Eric back to a past which as a gay man in his early thirties he only knows from hearsay: the devastating AIDS epidemic that rocked the LGBTQ community at the beginning of the 1980s.

Das Vermächtnis (The Inheritance) – Part 2

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)
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 31 May

A caretaker is murdered with no reason or motive. Alienated from himself and life in general by a working day that is always the same, a bank clerk seizes an axe and commits murder. This action lacking any obvious cause shocks state prosecutor Martin, who is in charge of the case. In the murder and his crime he can see a reflection of his own imprisonment in a bourgeois existence dominated by duty, law and order. The prosecutor is immediately struck by an existential fear that drives him to escape into the fairy tale world of a mysterious alter ego: the world of Count Öderland.

Graf Öderland (Count Öderland)

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)
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 30 Mar
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 21 Apr
WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 27 Apr
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Thu 09 May

No other play by Heinrich von Kleist inspires quite so many superlatives as «Käthchen of Heilbronn». It is not only the most successful, but also the most romantic, the most fairy tale-like and at the same time the most mysterious play that he wrote.

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn (KÄTHCHEN OF HEILBRONN)
THEATRE DAY
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Thu 04 Apr
Cuvilliéstheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 22 May

With «Success», we journey into the inner workings of a society in which everything is measured in terms of personal career advantage, the demands of embittered contemporaries, hatred of one’s neighbours, anger at those with a different political opinion and one’s own lack of any sense of direction.

Erfolg (SUCCESS)
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Mon 01 Apr
19.00 Introduction
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Wed 10 Apr
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Sat 11 May

Maria Stuart, the deposed queen of Scotland, seeks asylum in England but soon finds herself imprisoned in a fortress as her aunt, the English queen Elisabeth Tudor, begins to investigate her. When she was seventeen, Maria was allegedly involved in the murder of her husband – that is the official charge, but there are also rumours of a plot to seize the crown right now. Schiller portrays neither of his female protagonists in a particularly flattering light: Maria is an impulsive seductress, Elisabeth is a jealous and indecisive monarch.

Maria Stuart
Premiere
Residenztheater, 19.30 o'clock
Fri 17 May
Residenztheater, 18.30 o'clock
Sun 19 May

Ensemble