Sebastian Studnitzky, trumpet / Andrii Pokaz, piano

This exciting duo project of Berlin multi-instrumentalist Sebastian Studnitzky and pianist Andrii Pokaz, who lives in Odesa, was born in the midst of life-changing times. The two musicians, whose life situations could not be more different, celebrate wonderfully improvised jazz together. Andrii Pokaz, one of the leading jazz pianists in Ukraine, studied classical piano at the Odesa Conservatory. Sebastian Studnitzky, known for his unique style away from common genres, has been awarded the "ECHO Jazz" and "OPUS Klassik," among others. Both musicians share virtuoso and unpretentious playing and the curious exploration of various styles such as jazz, classical, and electronica.

Admission at 7:30 PM

Regular gymnastics improves endurance, strengthens the cardiovascular system, and promotes balance and reaction time. This course is specifically tailored to the needs of seniors. Based on dance and in a relaxed atmosphere, all muscles and joints are trained in the exercises.

This ticket is valid for the following 6 dates:

04.11.2024
11.11.2024
18.11.2024
25.11.2024
02.12.2024
09.12.2024

Fitness for Seniors | Adults | Pumphalle | Monday 11:00 - 12:00 o'clock

Fireman Sam LIVE! - Adventure on Dino Island

Children's hero Fireman Sam returns with a brand-new show: Adventure on Dino Island. Recently, ancient dinosaur bones were found on the island of Pontypandy. The mischievous Norman is thrilled: it means that real dinosaurs lived on the island! Together with his best friend Mandy, he sets out to find more evidence and risks his own life in the process. Fireman Sam and his friends Elvis, Jenny, and Commander Steel must take action to ensure that the young adventurers are safe.

Fireman Sam Live: Adventure on Dino Island is an exhilarating show full of singing, dancing, and exciting rescue missions!

Doors open at 3:30 pm.

“Open Sesame” – With this phrase, the poor woodcutter Ali Baba discovers a great treasure in a mysterious mountain.
He takes a small part of the treasure with him to lead a better life from then on. When his greedy brother Kazim learns about it, he wants to do the same – but then he is surprised by the 40 robbers, and his greed becomes his downfall…

The participatory theater is a special form of theater performance, where an experienced actor tells a fairy tale while slipping into various fairy tale characters and roles. The children can become active themselves. They can shout their thoughts and ideas to the actor on stage, who spontaneously integrates these impulses into the story. Additionally, the children can play along on stage at many points! This creates an interactive and lively theater experience between the storyteller and the children.

Experience a unique production for the whole family by Johannes Galli with specially composed music by Johannes Galli & Michael Summ.
The CD with all the fairy tale songs from the play (including playback versions & song lyrics) is available at our theater.

Doors open 30 minutes prior.

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2025-04-26_Waiting for the Bus

In "Snowy auf der Suche nach dem Glück," Snowy meets Traudel Dudenhöfer. The seemingly nice and charming show host comes to Eisenhüttenstadt with her talent search. She wants to turn Snowy into a big television star. Postman Paul and Otto are also on board and are already dreaming of money and expensive cars, loads of sweets, and a Hollywood career like those seen in the movies. They ignore the warning voices of their friends. When Santa Claus is also to be involved and Christmas seems to be lost, the mood deflates. Now help is urgently needed. Can Snowy Star manage this? Will Snowy really become famous? Is Paul moving to Hawaii? Marvel at the new spectacular stage design, experience a real television show and the grand Snowy Band, and cheer with Katrin and Peter for the rescue of Christmas. Snowy in his 26th adventure is to be seen in 12 performances between the 1st and the 27th of December 2024 at the Friedrich-Wolf-Theater.

The main building of the State Kunsthalle Karlsruhe is closed for extensive renovation. However, significant parts of the collection are now visible to the public again – as guests at the ZKM | Karlsruhe.

The Kunsthalle showcases paintings and sculptures spanning from the late Middle Ages to the present on around 2000 sqm – a cross-section of the collection featuring popular masterpieces by Matthias Grünewald and Hans Baldung Grien, by Rembrandt, Rubens, and Chardin, by Cézanne, Gauguin, and Beckmann, Max Ernst, René Magritte, and Joan Miró, as well as works by Gerhard Richter, Pia Fries, and Karin Sander.

21st March 2024
Suchtpotenzial (Music Comedy)
"Bällebad forever"

19th May 2024
Max Beier (Cabaret)
"Love & Order"

1st June 2024
Yann Yuro (Mental Magic)
"Revelation"

11th October 2024
Anny Hartmann (Political Cabaret)
"Climate Ballerina"

5th December 2024
La Signora (Comedy)
"Make a wish"

Admittance: 6:30 PM

Any remaining tickets possibly available at the box office, information at 06894-13-523

Eight Classical Concerts

Tickets may still be available at local box offices or at the door.

All year again: in December begins a time with more trials than in any jungle camp. From the beginning, the struggle of tying the Advent wreath to the official conclusion, the conclusion of the old year, from the forced attendance at Christmas parties to the exchange of wrong purchases.

Mr. Hämmerle - expert on all life questions - guides you through this critical time. Hämmerle knows how cunning one has to be to obtain their Christmas tree black market-style from the Black Forest. He also knows that homemade firecrackers can be a blast. And he actually knows how to keep his relatives at a distance during this time.

However, this time he is not particularly successful with this strategy...

Doors open at 6:00 PM, you will be seated.

Sold out, there may be leftover tickets at the box office.

Staged reading with Irene Christ and Johannes Hallervorden

Ruthlessness and arrogance are attributed to Scrooge - a successful businessman in the financial sector - in London’s city. He has only disdain for his poorer fellow human beings. But then, on a lonely Christmas night, three spirits appear to him… and teach him not just about fear. Dickens’ beautiful Christmas story about responsibility and compassion as a staged reading filled with suspense, humor, and enchanting moments!!

As a wonderful understanding of human nature, Charles Dickens created a
classic in the 19th century.

Johannes Hallervorden and Irene Christ tell the famous Christmas story
excitingly and humorously as a staged reading with music – and enchanting moments.

Slip into the role of a detective, because on the search for clues through our idyllic Bad Bevensen, there is a brutal criminal case to solve. Collect evidence, research the connections in the group, and with detective instinct you will solve the case - for sure! The guest crime tour is an adventure tour with fun and lots of information about the criminals.

Meeting point: Tourist Information at the Kurhaus

Welcome to the realm of knowledge in the Baroque era: Stepping onto creaking floorboards into the quiet grandeur of our historical library hall, one is immediately enveloped by the collective knowledge of the Early Modern period. Like stage sets in a Baroque theater, the original bookshelves jut into the space, housing around 50,000 books from all fields of knowledge. Behind unassuming book spines lie remarkable treasures, such as the first German Bible printed in America.

At the end of the 17th century, the orphanage's library was established as one of the first public libraries in Germany. Primarily through donations, book exchanges, and their own publications, the library grew so rapidly that within a few years, it was comparable to significant German university libraries. In 1728, it received its own building, which is considered the oldest surviving secular library structure in Germany. Not only in recent times has the library been visited by guests and researchers from around the world: Albrecht von Haller, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe all admired its bibliophilic treasures. We present a selection of them for you in rotating cabinet exhibitions in the former reading room of the library.

10 am - 5 pm

The Art and Natural History Chamber is considered the oldest German museum room. It was established by August Hermann Francke for educational purposes and is now once again set up according to the original museum concept of the 18th century in its historical location in the attic of the Historical Orphanage.

Eighteen richly decorated collection cabinets house approximately 3000 natural specimens, curiosities, and artifacts. They provide a unique impression of a Baroque cabinet of curiosities. Unlike modern museums, the chamber follows an encyclopedic collecting approach. A distinction is made between natural specimens and artifacts. The natural specimens are divided into rocks, plants, and animals, while the artifacts are categorized into visual arts, calligraphy, coins, everyday culture, and clothing. The goal was to create a mirror image of the world: a microcosm that made the macrocosm as the wonderful creation of God tangible.

In a series of events, art projects take place around the Art and Natural History Chamber. In the so-called "Contemporary Reflections on the Art and Natural History Chamber," foundations invite artists to engage in an artistic dialogue with the chamber.

Detailed information

Tue-Sun 10am-5pm

Palace-like, the orphanage rises on Franckeplatz. Then as now, it is the centerpiece of the Francke Foundations. Erected in 1698 as the first building of the school city, it represents a new facet of European Baroque, combining confident representation without extravagant ornamentation and setting the tone for orphanage architecture.

Today, the orphanage is our museum and cultural center. Right from the start, two permanent exhibitions guide you through the history of the foundation and the global impact of Pietism. On the first floor, the former prayer and singing hall surprises with its bright architecture. Today, it enjoys an excellent reputation as a concert hall due to its fantastic acoustics. In the adjacent conference rooms, a photo exhibition showcases the impressive renovation work since the foundations were reestablished in 1991. The second floor is reserved for our changing special exhibitions, which provide insight into important themes of the foundation's history from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Passing through the art and natural history collections in the attic, you reach the balcony via a narrow wooden staircase. Here, a wide view opens up over the impressive ensemble with school buildings from three centuries. There is also a splendid panorama of the Old Town of Halle from here. In the basement, children can explore their own paths in the Krokoseum.

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

What power does the word have? For Halleschen Pietismus, the word was of central importance. On the ground floor of the Historical Orphanage, we show you how August Hermann Francke's reform movement could spread around the world.

Francke developed central reformative goals of Martin Luther's with Halleschen Pietismus. His approach was as clear as it was revolutionary: Every person should find God through their own Bible reading. However, for this to happen, everyone - boys and girls alike - had to learn to read, everyone should be able to afford their own Bible and it should be printed in their own native language. Therefore, Francke established schools for all social classes, printed millions of German-language People's Bibles, and created an international network through which the Bible was translated into many other languages. His educational initiative allowed a broad population to engage with the word. In the 18th-century evangelical parsonages, the authors of the Romantic and Enlightenment periods were highly regarded. A culture of self-reflection spread in Pietism, which was reflected in diaries and personal testimonies, giving us remarkable insights into the spiritual life of people of that time. Symbolically, the power of the word is also evident in the meticulously restored pulpit from the Church of St. Ulrich in Halle, where Francke preached from 1715 and which you can admire in the exhibition.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

4 talers and 16 groschen are considered the founding capital of the Francke Foundations. How an unparalleled school city grew from this unexpected donation to a simple pastor in Glaucha can be discovered on the ground floor of the Historical Orphanage. A multimedia installation and numerous extraordinary objects will transport you into the fascinating founding and impact history of Francke's work. Because what began with a school for the poor and an orphanage, developed in a few decades into a true reform project that was based on education: Over 2,000 students learned in various schools, specially constructed economic buildings, a hospital, and a pharmacy guaranteed the care of over 3,000 people on the premises, unique cultural-historical collections in the library and chamber of wonders were established, and Francke's ideas were spread within and outside Europe. August Hermann Francke wanted nothing less than a "world change through personal change." Discover everything he set in motion through this.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

MAYBEBOP – Christmas Program "More Tinsel"

"More Tinsel" is the new Christmas program of the four men. During the Christmas season, they delightfully tour through Germany.

Christmas is sung and performed, that's a must! And in case of doubt, it's better to let the professionals take over: MAYBEBOP provides entertaining vocal performance during the Christmas season. Witty humor, sophisticated vocal harmonies, smooth choreographies, tasteful light, video, and sound staging – "More Tinsel" convinces on all levels. The four singers from Hannover, Berlin, Hamburg, and Weimar combine pointed original compositions with traditional German and international Christmas songs, debunking common clichés as each song surprises anew in the familiar refined MAYBEBOP style. Despite all the tinsel, the classic MAYBEBOP virtues continually shine through the Christmas cheer: highly virtuosic vocal harmonies and lyrics that link clear, even political stance with subtle humor on an unmatched level. And when the quartet aims to move us by addressing our deep-seated Christmas desires hidden beneath the tinsel, they also succeed effortlessly and genuinely appealing. So, "More Tinsel" is indeed more than just a MAYBEBOP concert: it's a MAYBEBOP Christmas concert. The best of both worlds! Rejoice and delight!

Lastly, in 2020, MAYBEBOP was honored in the USA as the "vocal band of the decade."