Playing, laughing, being loud, romping, doing nothing – and that in an exhibition house! From September 4, 2024, BAUBAU invites exactly that. In the play space for children designed by artist Kerstin Brätsch, more is allowed than forbidden. Colorful wallpapers, structures, objects, and a range of “Loose Parts” form spaces on the ground floor of the Gropius Bau that do not impose fixed guidelines but are determined by the activities of the children. They dictate the direction and form of what happens here. Thus, this place becomes a space of possibilities that can change day by day.

BAUBAU will launch in September 2024 in a prototype version and will continue to develop and grow over the coming years both inside and outside the Gropius Bau – in close exchange with the children and their wishes, as this is their place.

The Play
All children have the urge to play. This is how they learn to understand themselves and the world. Especially open, self-determined play is of great significance for emotional and social development. The educational concept for BAUBAU is therefore based on the principles of free play: Here, there is time, space, and permission for children to follow their own needs and interests. They are accompanied by playworkers – trained staff who create a safe and supportive environment where children can play freely.

 
The Art
BAUBAU playfully questions what a museum or an art institution should be. The comprehensive spatial design developed by Kerstin Brätsch is full of references and inspirations: elements from her previous works, such as marbling, paintings, or stucco marble work, reappear here in altered forms and materialities. The wallpapers, curtains, fabrics, seating furniture, and climbing structures are inhabited by dinosaurs, fantastical beings, termite mounds, and abstract elements. With their strange, funny, and perhaps a bit eerie shapes, they create an open framework for free play.

Kerstin Brätsch's practice is designed to allow and incorporate influences from outside. While she has previously collaborated with artists or artisans, she now does so in a completely different way with children: She invites the children to reshape and further develop the space according to their own ideas and visions, without the influence of the artist in unpredictable ways.

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 12:00–18:00
Sat, Sun 11:00–18:00
Tue closed

Welcome to the world of musicals!
Enjoy the highlights from Dance of the Vampires, Cats, or The Phantom of the Opera, and many other musicals!

At the Musical Dinner, you will be served the absolute highlights of the most popular musicals alongside an exquisite multi-course menu.

While you enjoy this musical dinner, the musical stars will provide that special touch in authentic costumes.

Musical has never been so close!

Doors open at 6:30 PM

Welcome to the world of musicals!
Let yourself be tantalized by highlights from Dance of the Vampires, Cats, or The Phantom of the Opera and many other musicals!

At the Musical Dinner, the absolute highlights of the most popular musicals are served to you along with an exquisite multi-course menu.

While you savor this musical dinner, the musical stars in authentic costumes will provide the special flair.

Musical has never been this close!

Doors open: 18:30

„Fly with me! Fly with me!“, calls Albi, the Alpine swift, who nests under the roof of the Linden Museum during the summer months. On your flight through the permanent exhibitions, you will encounter the transparent kangaroo, hear about an extinct bird, and can listen to the conversation with Seraa, the elephant. Whether in pictures or clothing, made from wood, ceramics, and stone – the animals and their representations tell of the coexistence of humans and animals. This relationship is not always straightforward. On one hand, many animals are admired, revered, and appreciated as companions or domestic and farm animals, while on the other hand, their habitats are also destroyed and they are hunted or displaced.

In the exhibition, illustrator Promina Shrestha brings the animals on the objects to life through her images. During the listening and stamping rally, you will discover together with Albi what the animals have to say, solve puzzles, and collect stamps.

€ 4/3 including permanent exhibitions
Children up to 18 years free

Tue to Sat 10 AM - 5 PM / Sun and holidays 10 AM - 6 PM / Closed on Dec 24, 25, and 31

Tradition, honor, discipline, excellence – these are the four fundamental principles that have always been taught at Welton Academy. However, with the emergence of the young English teacher John Keating, the rigid traditions of the students at the boys' boarding school are suddenly broken. In his unconventional classes, he motivates the students to develop their own personalities and internalize the belief "Carpe Diem! Seize the day!" When his student Neil learns about the mysterious "Dead Poets Society," of which Keating was once a member, he decides to revive the secret society. The performance of "Der Club der toten Dichter" takes place by special arrangement with Concord Theatricals GmbH, in the name and on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.

With Ulrich Bähnk, Tobias Dürr, Tobias Gebhard, Tim Jesse Koch, Johan Richter, Baran Sönmez, Celio-Silvestre Tamele

The show will be performed on synthetic ice

Pure joy for the big and small fans of the cinema and musical hit!
Finally, the celebrated songs from the world's most successful animated films Frozen 1 and Frozen 2 are coming to European stages, and in spectacular form – on ice!

The audience experiences an adventurous musical journey together with the sisters Elsa and Anna and their companions, featuring the stars of the new music show on ice!

With an impressively staged new ice show, a symbiosis of ice dancing and breathtaking circus acrobatics, the new music show on ice takes the audience on a magical journey into a fairy tale world.

The popular winter fairy tale wonderfully shows the significant roles that love, friendship, and bravery play in life.

The fairy tale has been sensitively transformed into an "On Ice" adaptation full of secrets and fantasies.

Great songs, a thrilling ensemble of musical soloists, ice dancers, and acrobats, along with an impressive LED stage design!

ALL SONGS SUNG LIVE

Goosebumps galore as Elsa performs the absolute hit of the evening "Let It Go!" - a celebration of ice dancing and acrobatics on skates, enchanting the stage and the massive LED screen into a sea of ice and deep blue crystals with her magical powers!
Funny moments arise when snowman Olaf dreams of sun and beach in "In Summer," or when Kristoff sings “Reindeers are Better Than People” with his beloved reindeer Sven!
In this ice show, many other popular hits follow, including "Do You Want to Build a Snowman," "Where No One Has Been," "Show Yourself," and "Love Opens Doors."

To the multiple award-winning music (including the coveted Oscar for Best Original Song), Elsa, Anna, as well as Olaf, Sven, and Kristoff present an entertaining ice spectacle featuring ice dancers, acrobats from Circo National de Cuba (known from the dance musical “Havana Nights”), as well as innovative stage technology and an impressive LED stage design for the whole family.

Let yourself be transported to the dreamlike scenes of the deep, deep snowy winter forest of the high north!

With grace, beauty, and elegance, with incredible lightness and astonishing technical precision, the audience is drawn into a boundless fantasy. Over 300 beautiful costumes, new innovative and imaginative direction, spectacular choreography, mesmerizing music, and breathtaking acrobatics create a unique, magical spectacle – LIVE ON ICE!

Only the best singers, ice dancers, and acrobats make the leap into this international "Best Of" ensemble. Marvel at the highest technical precision of the star artists and winners of numerous international circus festivals.

Admission: 17:00

The Kriminal Dinner ‘Und raus bist du‘ – this is a delightful multi-course menu set in a stylish ambiance, framed by an exciting criminal case, taking place at the Brauereigasthof Stanglbräu in Abensberg.

You find yourself in the ballroom of the exquisite wellness hotel “Pachisi.” The gala meal is ready and the kitchen already smells delicious. After the exhausting afternoon of yoga, you truly deserve your dinner! Or did you rather let off steam with archery or in the water aerobics class? Regardless of the group you were in - now you gather together for the feast and the exclusive presentation of the new board game “Und raus bist Du” - the game author will be present personally! Much to the dismay of the yoga icon Eva Endlich, who would have preferred to send her guests to bed early. After all, tomorrow’s program includes “Yoga at Sunrise.” But what was announced as a fun game night turns into a grim reality: A corpse hangs dead over the garden fence - with an arrow in the chest. A competition among rival sports groups? Or a devious version of the “Game of Life”? Roll the dice! It’s about nothing less than the truth and the necessity to identify the perpetrator(s)!

The multi-course menu will be served by the gastro team at the Brauereigasthof Stanglbräu, which will guarantee a thrill for nerves and palate. Doors open at 6:30 PM - the event begins at 7:00 PM.

Admission: 6:30 PM / Multi-course menu and play are included in the price / Table and seating assignments will be assigned on site.

Comedy by Ruth Toma and Lars Büchel with the popular Ohnsorg Theater

At some point, one must start fulfilling their wishes: This is especially true for Carla, Lili, and Meta, as they are no longer the youngest. The biggest wish of the three is to take a cruise on a luxury liner. But just when they bring their savings from their skat fund to the bank, it gets robbed. Well, what the bank robbers could do, they can do long ago – only better. And what do they have to lose, except for time?

When Heinrich Del Core tells his everyday stories in his red shoes, one might exclaim: "Stop it! That never really happened, he must have just made that up!" But all these events, over which we can laugh so unbelievably and heartily, have been experienced by him personally. Heinrich Del Core is a magnet that attracts bizarre everyday situations and then presents them to us with his incomparably funny charm.
And now it's finally happening: Heinrich is becoming a grandpa. Or put another way: his wife is becoming a grandma!
The new situation turns everything upside down. Overnight, Del Core's world is different. He buys a stroller that costs as much as a moped used to and a Thermomix does today. He downloads baby apps for his wife and bakes mother cake for family coffee gatherings. Then there's a wedding, environmentally conscious and vegan. But real joy doesn't quite set in when you're supposed to pelt the bride and groom with unpeeled whole grain rice.
But for grandparents, many problems disappear into thin air. Take the example of the bedroom: how many times has restful sleep been prevented by the wife's cold feet, the perpetual battle for the blanket, or because the man competes with a leaf blower in volume and air pressure. When the grandchild visits on weekends, Heinrich simply has to move out.
Of course, this affects his self-esteem. And doesn't “Opa” (grandpa) sound totally old? He actually feels younger - except in the morning when getting up. Sometimes his joints make sounds. But his wife always boosts him up again: "Heinrich, you're really in shape." She seems to cope much better with the new situation. She says, "Being a grandma is like being a mom - just prettier." She never thought about getting older. She once left a note for the kids: "At the graveyard." And Heinrich then added underneath: "But we'll come back."
But despite all the changes in his life, this program is a typical Heinrich Del Core evening, because he himself says: "My wife is becoming a grandma, but I'm staying the same."
Doors open at 7:00 PM

Doors open at 7 pm

Secure your tickets for "A Tribute to ABBA - Unforgettable Dinnershow" and be part of the tour live.

...maybe you will soon be our next "Dancing Queen"!?

"A Tribute to Abba - Unforgettable Dinnershow" impresses with a top-notch stage program and an extraordinarily faithful implementation. If you close your eyes, you might think that Agnetha, Anni-Frid, Björn, and Benny are actually on stage. But when you open your eyes, you must first understand that this is not the original because the impressive costumes are fully in the ABBA tradition.

We serve you a multi-course menu for gourmets with exquisite dishes and selected wines in an exclusive setting. This extraordinary experience, the combination of art and culinary delights, we present to you throughout Germany, because today you dine as our guest on the boards that mean the world.

"A Tribute to Abba - Unforgettable Dinnershow" ensures an unforgettable evening with a comprehensive program that leaves nothing to be desired. Overall, this event is an absolute must for every old-school ABBA fan, as the group brings a vibe like that of the Mamma Mia musical itself to the stage, which also shines with emotional and calm moments.

Secure your tickets today in advance and don't miss out on this event:

Travel back to the 70s!

Doors open: 6 PM

Playing, laughing, being loud, romping, doing nothing – and that in an exhibition house! From September 4, 2024, BAUBAU invites exactly that. In the play space for children designed by artist Kerstin Brätsch, more is allowed than forbidden. Colorful wallpapers, structures, objects, and a range of “Loose Parts” form spaces on the ground floor of the Gropius Bau that do not impose fixed guidelines but are determined by the activities of the children. They dictate the direction and form of what happens here. Thus, this place becomes a space of possibilities that can change day by day.

BAUBAU will launch in September 2024 in a prototype version and will continue to develop and grow over the coming years both inside and outside the Gropius Bau – in close exchange with the children and their wishes, as this is their place.

The Play
All children have the urge to play. This is how they learn to understand themselves and the world. Especially open, self-determined play is of great significance for emotional and social development. The educational concept for BAUBAU is therefore based on the principles of free play: Here, there is time, space, and permission for children to follow their own needs and interests. They are accompanied by playworkers – trained staff who create a safe and supportive environment where children can play freely.

 
The Art
BAUBAU playfully questions what a museum or an art institution should be. The comprehensive spatial design developed by Kerstin Brätsch is full of references and inspirations: elements from her previous works, such as marbling, paintings, or stucco marble work, reappear here in altered forms and materialities. The wallpapers, curtains, fabrics, seating furniture, and climbing structures are inhabited by dinosaurs, fantastical beings, termite mounds, and abstract elements. With their strange, funny, and perhaps a bit eerie shapes, they create an open framework for free play.

Kerstin Brätsch's practice is designed to allow and incorporate influences from outside. While she has previously collaborated with artists or artisans, she now does so in a completely different way with children: She invites the children to reshape and further develop the space according to their own ideas and visions, without the influence of the artist in unpredictable ways.

Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri 12:00–18:00
Sat, Sun 11:00–18:00
Tue closed

The Dire Straits were a band of superlatives. With Mark Knopfler's distinctive guitar playing and deep voice immediately recognizable, they rose from small bar concerts to the biggest stages on the planet in just under a decade. As a counterpoint to the then-popular punk rock, the perennially cash-strapped ("Dire Straits") musicians with their many musical influences only had a brief niche existence until they rapidly became one of the most well-known and successful bands in music history, selling over 120 million records in their career.

With "Sultans of Swing" they achieved breakthrough success at the end of the 70s, putting Mark Knopfler in the spotlight as a singer, composer, and especially as a guitarist. The group reached their zenith in the mid-eighties with the song "Money For Nothing", a collaboration with their fellow "Geordie" countryman Sting.

However, success and great pressure demanded too high a price from the musicians involved. After the success of the final album "On Every Street" (38x platinum worldwide) and the eponymous world tour from 1991-1992 with a total of 229 concerts, Mark Knopfler announced in 1995 that the band would henceforth be inactive and would no longer perform public concerts. This final phase is now the focus of the tribute show "One Night of Dire Straits".

Guitarist and singer Alex Moll, along with his exquisitely assembled band of live and studio musicians, takes the audience on a journey full of fascinating and handmade music. Moll studied Knopfler's music and guitar playing since his youth and gathers in his band only companions who have the Dire Straits just as much in their blood as he does. Moll not only succeeds in eliciting the same sounds from his guitar for which Mark Knopfler became world-famous, but also in raising the energy and joy of playing of the nine-member band to the level of the original.

With a song selection that leaves nothing to be desired, "One Night of Dire Straits" guarantees an outstanding concert evening for all fans of Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits, and handmade music that immediately captivates the ear.

Doors open: 7:00 PM

In their program "Feelin' Groovy", the legendary band presents the most beautiful songs of the cult duo. There are few artists whose reputation precedes them as well as with the Simon & Garfunkel Revival Band. Wherever they perform, the passionate musicians leave behind an enthusiastic audience and rave reviews. Dreamy, passionate ballads such as "Scarborough Fair" or "Bright Eyes", classics like "Mrs. Robinson", "The Boxer" or "The Sound of Silence" are just as firmly part of the extensive repertoire as the captivating "Cecilia".

Doors open at 6:30 pm.

70 Years of Egerländer Musikanten – the era continues
The Egerländer Musikanten – the Original are celebrating their 70th anniversary in 2026 – and are opening a fresh chapter with their new musical director Alexander Wurz. The 40-year-old tenor horn player and conductor, who has been part of the orchestra for 15 years, was personally selected by Ernst Hutter as his successor. Wurz continues the Egerländer tradition with his own sound, passion, and new impulses – staying true to the line of Mosch and Hutter, but with an eye on the future.
The anniversary program tells the story of the orchestra in three musical parts – from classics like "Dort tief im Böhmerwald" to new compositions, including Wurz's own march "Zeitenwende." A large soloist medley showcases the diversity of musicians from all generations, and Alexander Wurz is also present vocally: in titles like "Vogelwiese," he takes the microphone himself – very much in the style of orchestra founder Ernst Mosch.
The Egerländer Musikanten – the Original stand like hardly any other ensemble for lived continuity, precision, and brass music at the highest level – and invite you in 2026 to a concert evening full of sound, history, and enthusiasm.

Sold out!

The show "QUEEN Rhapsody" with star pianist Natalia Posnova is a musically and visually unique crossover event that not only evokes memories but also encourages a rediscovery of QUEEN's music.

The original guitarist of Queen, BRIAN MAY, said about the pianist: "Natalia Posnova is a wonderful pianist and interpreter of our songs. I have never seen or heard anything like this in all these years. To see this amount of beauty, talent, innovation, and pure bravado in one person is stunning. You all simply have to experience her."

Together with Bernd Wefelmeyer from the Babelsberg Film Orchestra, Natalia has created breathtaking orchestral arrangements that underline and accentuate her epic PIANO masterpieces of legendary anthems like "Who Wants to Live Forever," "The Show Must Go On," or "We Will Rock You." This production combines exquisite piano arrangements on a grand scale with rock elements and fantastic vocals. Thanks to the projection of the symphony orchestra onto the screen, through state-of-the-art technology, this show offers a unique multimedia experience.

Doors open: 6:30 PM

20s entertainment for the Easter festival: Easter Varieté delights for the third time in Stadtallendorf

On April 10, 2026, the Stadthalle Stadtallendorf will once again become a stage for an extraordinary show: The Easter Varieté returns for the third time and transports the audience into the dazzling world of the golden 20s.

Under the title "Golden Varieties," the audience can expect a glamorous mix of acrobatics, magic, comedy, and song – presented by magician Marcelini and accompanied by pianist Thomas Meyer. Together they charmingly and with a wink lead through the evening and bring the spirit of the 20s and 30s back to life.

This year, the Easter Varieté features an impressive lineup: Contortionist Tigris amazes with breathtaking bodily art, diva Tomasz shines as a charismatic female impersonator and sings his way into the hearts of the audience with chansons. The internationally celebrated duo Strange Comedy provides plenty of laughs with quirky slapstick acrobatics, while Monsieur Chapeau astonishes the audience with daring Rola-Bola acrobatics.

The Easter Varieté promises an evening full of glamour, nostalgia, and high-quality entertainment – a "Day like Gold" for all senses.

Tickets are already available online and at Janik Newspapers and more.

Entry: 6:00 PM

Jess Jochimsen confronts the spreading glaciation of brain and heart with his unique blend of clever political satire, beautifully poignant songs, and hilariously funny slides.

“Are we abandoned by all good spirits?” That seems to be the question in light of the general situation. From Musk to Merz, we are witnessing the return of the wounded men, and while one can watch in real time as autocrats in the West and East shred democracy, the smallest big coalition of all time is throwing a 90s party on credit. Was it really wise to elect someone as chancellor who proves almost daily that he cannot do it at all? And capitalism, climate change, and bachelor parties are still there too...

But since despair is not a solution, the many award-winning author and cabaret artist shoulders his accordion, packs sufficient reason, solidarity, and calmness, and prescribes himself optimism. Because: Who or what are these good spirits that are leaving us? And why does it always have to be all of them?

On his quest for answers, Jochimsen wanders through suburbs and fairgrounds, pays homage to politeness and other forgotten virtues, and promises an inspiring evening against the ongoing annoyances. Relaxed. Funny. And hopelessly optimistic.

An evening without guardrails.
Celebrate as if there were a tomorrow!