Florian Fischer creates - with and without language - an essay for the stage in which we learn to see erased pasts. Because: The past never stops. The past is present. - Only when we realize that everything we consider normal had to be invented, a future becomes imaginable again.

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Florian, sag mal ...
was erwartet uns bei
GEISTER?

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Ivanov

Chekhov's protagonist is a heavily indebted landowner who, just a few years ago, was still full of ideals and plans. Now his strength is consumed and the love for his seriously ill wife has died out. Jens Harzer plays the famous anti-hero, the dark epi-centre in the midst of a helpless society.

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After Work

After Work traces snapshots from the history of labour in calm, intense images. With dance, with acting, with music, with spoken words. A hybrid fusion of different ways of performing arts, where the boundaries between the art disciplines become blurred.

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+++ BERLIN THEATRE PRIZE 2020 +++
GOES TO SANDRA HÜLLER

Our ensemble member Sandra Hüller will be awarded the renowned Berlin 2020 Theatre Prize for her special services to German-speaking theatre. Previous award winners include Claus Peymann (1995), Jürgen Gosch/Johannes Schütz (2009), Johan Simons (2014), Herbert Fritsch (2017) and Karin Henkel (2018).

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Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald

(Tales from the Vienna Woods)
Ödön von Horváth's famous play tells of a lost and lying society with brilliant, bitterly evil wit. A masterpiece - staged by the award-winning director Karin Henkel!

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Sandra Hüller receives Gertrud-Eysoldt-Ring for her role as Hamlet

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"Für Hamlet muss alles einen Sinn haben"

zum Interview:
Sandra Hüller über Hamlet

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Hamlet

William Shakespeare turned an European legend into the philosophical story of a search for meaning that is still fascinating today. Directed by Johans Simons with Sandra Hüller in the title role, Hamlet becomes a plea for radical honesty.

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Florian Fischer receives Kurt-Hübner-Directing Award

GEISTER
from 17.01.2020
at Zeche Eins

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Plattform / Unterwerfung

Doppelvorstellung der beiden Meisterwerke von Michel Houellebecq
Regie: Johan Simons • Bühne: Bert Neumann

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Iphigenie

Mit einer Neuinterpretation von Euripides‘ Iphigenie in Aulis inszeniert der mehrfach preisgekrönte tschechische Regisseur Dušan David Pařízek erstmals am Schauspielhaus Bochum. Ihn interessiert dabei auch die Frage, auf welcher Grundlage Männer über das Leben von Frauen entscheiden beziehungsweise wie weiblich das Gesicht des Krieges auch sein kann?

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PENTHESILEA
Münchner Kammerspiele
04.02., 05.02.20
Schauspiel Leipzig
08.02.20

Die Jüdin von Toledo

„Selten hat man ein so phantastisch zusammengesetztes Ensemble gesehen, bei dem alle mit gleichem Mut auftreten und doch höchst verschieden sind.“ (FAZ, Simon Strauß)

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Die Hydra

Following their acclaimed adaptation of Wolfgang Herrndorf’s Bilder deiner großen Liebe director Tom Schneider and the musicians and actors Moritz Bossmann, Sandra Hüller and Sandro Tajouri embark on a new musical and theatrical adventure.

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Die unglaubliche Geschichte vom kleinen Roboterjungen

+++ FAMILY PLAY FOR 6 YEARS AND OLDER +++
In Bochum's most unusual laboratory, a team of scientists tries the impossible. Their mission is to build a robot with a real brain. They are succeeding: a little robot boy is being created! A lovely story with an amazing combination of acting, puppetry and music.

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+++ Nestroy Prize 2019 for Steven Scharf and Johan Simons +++

In the "Theater an der Wien" the renowned Austrian Nestroy Theatre Prize was awarded to Steven Scharf for his role as Franz Woyzeck in "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner (and as Lucas in "Medea" by Simon Stone after Euripides, Burgtheater). The co-production between the Vienna Burgtheater and the Schauspielhaus Bochum was directed by Johan Simons and impressed the jury: Johan Simons received the prestigious award in the category "Best Director" for this production. We are looking forward to showing you this production in spring 2020 in Bochum.

Svetlana Belesova und Stefan Hunstein sind die neuen Preisträger*innen des Bochumer Theaterpreises, überreicht durch den Freundeskreis des Bochumer Schauspielhauses

Theaterpreis "Nachwuchs": Svetlana Belesova

zur Laudatio von Bernd Noack

Theaterpreis "Arriviert": Stefan Hunstein

zur Dankesrede von Stefan Hunstein

Gift. Eine Ehegeschichte

We present the award-winning original production
of the world premiere in German.

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Der Hamiltonkomplex

Our young players storm the stage of the Kammerspiele again. Selected by the critics' platform nachtkritik.de as one of the most remarkable productions of 2018, we are looking forward to this eagerly awaited revival.

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AUSREDEN - ZUHÖREN!
Folge 2 - 2019/2020

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Die politische Diskussionsreihe mit Sonia Seymour Mikich
Thema: Reichtum verpflichtet, aber wozu? - Eigentum und Vergesellschaftung
nächste Ausgabe 26.01.2020

Tindersticks

For two decades the band led by singer and mastermind Stuart Staples has existed as Tindersticks. Their genre might be termed “tragic pop”: dense and complex songs with ambitious lyrics wrapped up in an almost dark atmosphere borne along by emotionally sweeping strings. We eagerly await their first concert on the main stage at Schauspielhaus Bochum.

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+++ Best theatre of the season 2019 +++

The Schauspielhaus Bochum was named the best theatre of the season in NRW in the annual critics' survey of Welt am Sonntag. In the category Best Production, Bochum also took the lead. Sandra Hüller was voted the Best Actress in NRW as Penthesilea and Hamlet. With a total of 30 nominations in eight categories, our programme and the Bochum ensemble was particularly praised.

Outstanding artists: Svetlana Belesova (in Die Philosophie im Boudoir), Jele Brückner (in Iphigenie), Gina Haller (in Die Jüdin von Toledo and Hamlet), Jens Harzer (in Penthesilea), Stefan Hunstein (in Plattform), Sandra Hüller (in Penthesilea and Hamlet)

Outstanding productions: Die Jüdin von Toledo (Director: Johan Simons), Der Hamiltonkomplex (Director: Lies Pauwels), Hamlet and Penthesilea (Director: Johan Simons), Die Philosophie im Boudoir (Director: Herbert Fritsch), Iphigenie (Director: Dušan David Pařízek), Orestes in Mosul (Director: Milo Rau), Plattform (Director: Johan Simons)

Zusammen
wachsen

The season 2019/2020. An Overview by Vasco Boenisch

All information about the 2019/2020 season in our newspaper!

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+++ UNESCO Immaterielles Kulturerbe +++

Deutschland hat seine Theater- und Orchesterlandschaft unter dem Titel „Theatres and Orchestras in Germany and their socio-cultural spaces“ bei der UNESCO für die Eintragung in die Repräsentative Liste des Immateriellen Kulturerbes der Menschheit vorgeschlagen. Die Entscheidung fällt im Dezember 2019.
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