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.

(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!

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.

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.
 

A science fiction play for teenagers aged 13 and over and adults

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?
 

We celebrate the impossibility of retrieving the past. Inspired by large quantities of documentary material from 100 years of the so called Bochumer Stil, the story follows scene after scene, hundreds of costumes are put on and taken off again, transformations take place, curtain after curtain opens.
Circa two dozen songs, mainly from pop music, with excursions into classical music, lead through the 100 years of Bochum´s theatre history, which began on 15 April 1919 with the employment of the first actresses and actors and the first artistic director.
 

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

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