Last night this year’s 3sat prize was awarded to Nicolas Stemann’s Faust I + II. Some said it was a worthy recipient: the acting of Philipp Hochmair and Sebastian Rudolph was irrefutably intense, the director proved capable of applying just... weiterlesen »
Heiner Müller, Shakespeare, Ibsen’s patriarchal issues, East German comedy, Fukushima, Haribo, „the modern marriage,“ fascism, capitalism, communism, racism, and even the delay of the brand-new Berlin Airport were all brought up in the Publikumsgespräch following last night’s Ein Volksfeind. On stage, there were at... weiterlesen »
Question: When you walk into a supermarket to grab some groceries for dinner, what’s the most important information for you? Price, obviously; brand, expiration date, amount of artificial sweetener, possibly; but how about the number of „becquerels“ contained in that... weiterlesen »
I have nothing to say, and I am saying it. And that’s not poetry, just blatant fact. Here I am, in Berlin, a Japanese theatre journalist with some knowledge of theatre but no in-depth anything of German culture, and I’m... weiterlesen »