The Rickenbackers Pro Jam Session takes place every 2nd & 4th Tuesday at ART Stalker. It is led by Jürgen Bailey.

Onlookers, professionals, newcomers, and music lovers are all welcome. There are no limits musically, it's all about playing what is enjoyable.

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6:30 PM

The world's first museum of KÖRPERWELTEN showcases unique plastinates that provide visitors with easily understandable detailed knowledge about individual organ functions as well as common illnesses.
It offers insights into the highly complex structures of the body's interior and illustrates what connects us, keeps us upright and in motion, and allows us to laugh and love.
We invite you to a unique encounter with life and a confrontation with your body.
The plastinates shown in the exhibition come from the body donation program of the Institute of Plastination in Heidelberg, where more than 22,000 donors are now registered.

Last admission: 6:00 PM

The world’s first KÖRPERWELTEN museum opened its doors in 2015 in Berlin. It is located at Alexanderplatz right inside the Berlin TV Tower. Since then, visitors have the opportunity to admire a variety of unique plastinates. These provide a deep insight into the highly complex interior of the human body. Thus, interested parties gain detailed knowledge about organ functions and common diseases, all conveyed in an easily understandable manner. The lifelike poses create an immediate connection to the viewers.

What connects us, what keeps us upright and in motion, what makes us laugh and love? At KÖRPERWELTEN, you will find answers to these and many more questions. Prepare for a deeply moving and inspiring encounter with life. Don’t miss out on a visit and experience the fascination of plastination.

Last admission: 6:00 PM

A psychological thriller by Sebastian Fitzek
Directed by: Thomas Wingrich

Every year, there are 23 people worldwide who disappear while traveling on a cruise ship. 23, where you never find out what happened. No one has ever come back. Until now, except for Anouk, a girl who disappeared six months ago with her mother. Anouk, who reappears. In her arm, she holds a teddy bear. And it is not her own. The mysterious call comes right in the midst of a mission. Police psychologist Martin Schwartz must immediately travel to England and board the cruise ship “Sultan of the Seas.” He never wanted to step on a ship again, never wanted to subject his shattered soul to the torments of memory. Five years ago, his son vanished with his wife on that very cruise ship; nobody saw anything, the police presumed it was a suicide. But now there are supposed clues about what happened to his family: No doubt, it is his son's teddy bear. Once again, a world collapses for him, the nightmare he thought couldn't get worse is just beginning. The ship departs, setting sail for New York. 3,000 passengers, a traumatized girl, a deeply disturbed police psychologist – and a killer on the hunt.

We look forward to your visit to the Berliner Kriminal Theater.

Doors open: 19:30

William Shakespeare / John von Düffel
MACBETH

A story about the thirst for power.
Middle Ages. Parallels to here and now? Absolutely.

“Who dares say that he believes anything else?
When we possess power, we create truth.
And what we say is law.”

… Lady Macbeth conjures her initially less ambitious husband. The witches have predicted an incredibly rapid career for him: he shall become king. Why wait? The lady develops a murderous plan.
Macbeth's instincts are stirred. King and queen. That would suit the couple well. However:
“To be in power is nothing unless one is secure in that power.”
One crime leads to another. What human qualities are required? Narcissistic. Ruthlessness, unscrupulousness.
A tyranny benefits few and harms many. But - it's all a matter of selling.

John von Düffel’s adaptation focuses on two figures: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. And shows, like under a magnifying glass, the paths and deviations of power. With a tight-knit team at the Theater am Frankfurter Tor. Exciting and entertaining.

with Johanna Marie Bourgeois and Tibor Locher
Director: Irene Christ
Set design: Joachim Hamster Damm

14:00

In the anniversary program 75 years of Stachelschweine "Ich hab´ noch einen Tesla in Berlin" by Frank Lüdecke and Sören Sieg, a vision of the future in the year 2029 is told.
The new Federal Chancellor Sahra Wagenknecht is increasingly under pressure as state debt progresses relentlessly.
The cheese roll costs 14 euros, BASF and Bayer have emigrated to Asia, VW and BMW belong to Tesla. The creditworthiness of the Federal Republic has been downgraded to BB, and half of the taxes go to interest payments.
Then the Federal Chancellor has an idea. With a single measure, she calculates, all her campaign promises can be financed: retirement from 55, free public transport, and a rent cap at the level of 1989. It is the "Secret Plan Berlin." The capital is to be sold as Germany's silverware. An electric car manufacturer, operator of voice messaging services, Mars rockets, and brain implants immediately makes a move...

For the 75th anniversary, DIE STACHELSCHWEINE present a program that elegantly combines black humor with Berlin calmness. When everything goes into a panic, we know: No one intends to sell Berlin!

With Santina Maria Schrader, Norma Anthes, Florian Kleine.

Hello, greetings, and hi!

In 1981, Musikantenstadl went on air on ORF. The first episode from the quaint Upper Austrian town of Enns seems a bit shaky, but applause rings out on the beer benches just like in episode 53. The principle is clear: Karl Moik rhymes his moderations, the Alpine countries provide the backdrop and are the origin of most acts. There is yodeling, Schuhplattler dancing, and swaying along. Meanwhile, some very young singer or trumpeter is celebrating their first performance. Everything is so good that the beams of the modular barn bend from applause.

So far, so familiar. What may have been overlooked: Musikantenstadl was a global project. Karl Moik took the Stadl to Moscow, Beijing, Melbourne, Cape Town, and even the Caribbean—always with the same stage design. Around the world, the Schuhplattler, corseted chests in traditional costumes, yodeled love declarations to the Alps, and trumpeting youths were presented as typically German and collaborated with the cultural clichés of the host country. Today, this is unthinkable. The show no longer exists - Karl Moik is dead. History. But this history is only about 20 years old.

Rainald Grebe, director, cabaret artist, author, and songwriter, dives into the first broadcast of Karl Moik's Musikantenstadl from 1981 along with the RZt ensemble, letting himself be carried away by the world of folk music and good taste. An evening filled with much music and dance, yodeling, and clapping beer benches.

Panel discussion with Julia Franck and Eva Geulen
ARTE film screening: "Hannah Arendt – A Jewess in Paris Exile"

On December 4, 2025, we will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hannah Arendt’s death. The author Julia Franck and literature scholar Eva Geulen will discuss Hannah Arendt’s hallmarks today. Julia Franck (most recently "Worlds Apart," S. Fischer, 2021) will hold the Heidelberg Poetics Chair in November 2025. Eva Geulen, director of the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research and professor of European cultural and intellectual history at HU Berlin, is a member of the main editorial team of the Critical Complete Edition of the works of Hannah Arendt. Afterwards, we will see Christian Bettges' film portrait "Hannah Arendt – A Jewess in Paris Exile" (ARTE/ZDF 2025, 52 min.): In the 1930s, Hannah Arendt spent her time fleeing from the National Socialists in Paris exile. The bestselling Arendt biography by Thomas Meyer has thoroughly researched this phase of her life. Together with him, we travel to the places of Hannah Arendt’s influence. Omri Boehm, Seyla Benhabib, Martine Leibovici, and Marina Touillez will also explain her work. The film is already available to watch on arte.tv and will be broadcast on December 10, 2025.

Entry is free for the film screening at 8:30 PM. Tickets for the discussion cost €9 / €5.

Event image: Making Of, Andrea Casabianchi on set. The actress speaks in the documentary © Thomas Bresinsky

Doors open: 6:00 PM

2006, a great football club celebrated its 40th birthday. And its fans gave it an extraordinary theater event as a gift.
In two times 45 minutes we experience the story of a Union fan and the red-white madness that has unfolded on the pitch, in the stands, in pubs, and living rooms around the Alte Försterei in recent decades.
Book & Direction: Jörg Steinberg

On December 3rd, the event starts at 7 PM! Afterwards, the game Union Berlin against Bayern Munich will be broadcast in our hall.

Admission from 7:00 PM

Remaining tickets may be available at the box office.

"When I think today about the hopes that people in the East and the West had in 1989, I often ask myself: How could it possibly happen that these great hopes turned into lost illusions?"

At the book launch of "Der Schlüssel würde noch passen. Moskauer Erinnerungen" (Droemer), the prominent Russian opposition figure Irina Scherbakova shares her memories of life in Russia after Perestroika in conversation with journalist Shila Behjat and foreign policy correspondent for DIE ZEIT Michael Thumann. The co-founder of the human rights organization Memorial, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, intertwines her personal experiences and societal observations closely with Russian history and politics of the 20th century.

Since 2022, historian, Germanist, and publicist Irina Scherbakova has been living in exile in Tel Aviv and Germany. Drawing from her life in Moscow and the apartment filled with many family memories and heirlooms that she and her husband left behind, she travels back in time. She recounts everyday life and the political awakening in Russia at the beginning of the 1990s, describing the unfamiliar freedom and how the people learned to cope with it, more poorly than well. Scherbakova’s theme also encompasses her ongoing, active political engagement, her fight against state terror, and for the reckoning with Stalinism and Russia's seemingly unstoppable slide into dictatorship.

Irina Scherbakova, born in 1949 in Moscow, is a historian and publicist. Before Perestroika, she worked as an editor and translator of German literature. Since the early 1980s, she conducted interviews with GULAG survivors and led the educational work of the Russian human rights organization Memorial from its founding in 1989, particularly the history competition. Research stays have taken her to Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, and Jena. In 2021, the Putin regime liquidated the NGO, and in 2022 Memorial, along with Belarusian human rights activist Ales Bialiatski and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In the same year, Scherbakova left her homeland and now lives in Berlin and Tel Aviv. She is the chairwoman of the exile organization Zukunft Memorial, founded in Berlin, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Buchenwald Memorial, and is an honorary member of the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin.

Shila Behjat, journalist and publicist, was born in Karlsruhe and grew up in the Allgäu region. After studying law in Hamburg and Paris, she was the United Kingdom correspondent for Axel Springer and reported in 2010 for the women's portal goFeminin from the UN Commission on Women's Rights. Until 2019, she was editor-in-chief of the Arte Magazine. Since 2021, Shila Behjat has served as a Commissioning Editor at Arte. She is a co-founder of the Berlin publishing house BESHU Books, which aims to promote talents and include diverse voices.

Michael Thumann studied history, politics, and Slavic studies at the Free University of Berlin, Columbia University in New York, Leningrad State University, and the Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He is the foreign policy correspondent of the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT, based in Moscow and Berlin, writing about Russia, Eastern Europe, and international politics. Since 2021, he has been leading the Moscow office of DIE ZEIT for the third time. Michael Thumann is the author of several books; his travel report "Eisiges Schweigen flussabwärts. Eine Reise von Moskau nach Berlin," recently published by C.H.Beck, describes fears of Russia's revanchism and war propensity while tracing the reasons for the precarious German-Russian relationship in history and present.

Coats, jackets, and bags larger than DIN A4 must be checked in at the cloakroom.

The coziest Poetry Slam in Berlin: At the Theater Verlängertes Wohnzimmer, newcomers find a stage. Samson and Alina lovingly lead you through a heartwarming, funny, and exciting evening. Be there as the first steps into the spotlight are taken and the next slam talents are discovered!

Open list: Those wishing to perform can register in advance at kiezpoeten.com/offene-liste.

Doors open at 7:00 PM

Remaining tickets may still be available at the box office on-site

Ensemble project of the 3rd year acting in collaboration with the fields of stage design and costume design at the University of the Arts Berlin

They actually wanted to study acting. Now they are examining the self-staging strategies made in art academy. The ensemble project of the 3rd year acting in collaboration with the fields of stage and costume design dares to leap from the stage into the feed.
Can the professional performance skills of the students not yield much more than intense theater evenings and a permanent position in the ensemble? What happens when the stage becomes a rehearsal for the next career step? And who is actually playing whom here?
A musical evening about realness, fame, and the fine line between appropriation and homage.

Direction and concept: Joana Tischkau
Music: Frieder Blume
Stage: Liz Cholewa and Ali Pourahmadian (field of stage design)
Costumes: Lenna Stam (field of costume design)
Dramaturgy: Joy Kristin Kalu
Light: Christian Scholl
Assistant director: Finn Ripper

Songwriting, choreography, and performance: Vandross Valeria Alage, Elizabeth Churcher, Kimberly Darcy-Mae, Lina Förster, Luisa-Charlotta Garbe, Lars Götz, Laurenz Pehofer, Klaudia Elwira Pierzchała, Rakiyat Rasheed, and Jonah Steinhauer

Duration of the performance: approx. 90 min. (no break)

Following the performance on Thu, December 18, 2025: Audience discussion with the participants and the team

Notes:
Loud music, fog, and strobe lights will be used.
During the performance, noises and movements as well as coming in and out are welcome at any time.

10 years ago, Chris Murray and Philipp Polzin had the crazy idea to organize a small tour with Christmas concerts together. What was a gamble back then has developed over the years into a staple in the calendars of both, with Pforzheim, Cologne, and Berlin standing out as constant locations for the tour - and so this year, these three cities are where "Musical Christmas" will once again make a stop.
In 10 years there have been dozens of guests, streamed concerts, concerts under Corona conditions with fewer audience members, but also hundreds of beautiful Christmas, film, and musical songs – and of course cookies!
And so this year, Chris Murray, Philipp Polzin, and their guests will once again perform live to their heart’s content and resume their beloved Christmas series. As always, there will be a festive mix of musical songs, Christmas carols, film songs, and readings, which are meant to spread Christmas cheer and beautify the holiday season – and when the cookies are being passed around again, it will be time to say “Just eat them!”
19:00

Traditionally, "Stars in Concert" presents its captivating Christmas show at the end of the year with the "Christmas Special." Alongside the world-famous number 1 hits of the greatest show legends in music history, the stars will present the most beautiful Christmas songs. As the stage transforms into a shimmering and glittering winter wonderland, the stars take the audience on a musical winter journey. Immerse yourself and experience the magic of Christmas with classics like "I'm Dreaming of A White Christmas," "We Wish You A Merry Christmas," or "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree," and many more hits. This year, Rachel Hiew will also return as Mariah Carey with her unforgettable Christmas classic "All I Want For Christmas Is You" on stage. The Christmas Special will be hosted by Robin Poell, the singing and tapping all-round entertainer.

Admission: 19:00 Uhr