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Societaetstheater
Dresden

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Societaetstheater

An der Dreikönigskirche 1a
01097 Dresden

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The Societaetstheater Dresden, located at Dreikönigskirche 1a, is the oldest civic theater in the city and was founded in 1776. After a comprehensive restoration in the 1990s, it now shines in new splendor and combines a baroque atmosphere with contemporary theater art.

The theater has several stages, including the Gutmann Hall, the foyer, the small stage, and a garden stage.

This variety allows for hosting events of different types and sizes. The stylish combination of classic and modern design creates an inviting atmosphere for private parties, corporate events, and cultural activities.

The central location in the Dresden Neustadt provides excellent public transport connections. The tram stop "Albertplatz" is just a few minutes' walk away, making it easy for guests to arrive. Public parking spaces are available in the surrounding area for drivers.

Numerous dining options are located in the immediate vicinity of the theater, ranging from cozy cafés to top-notch restaurants. This offers the opportunity to combine theater visits with culinary experiences and conclude the evening in a pleasant atmosphere.

The Societaetstheater Dresden is not only a venue for first-class theater performances but also a versatile event location that stands out for its central location, inviting atmosphere, and proximity to dining establishments. It is the perfect place for events seeking a touch of culture and creativity.

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FESTIVAL DER WORTLOSEN KOMIK
5/22/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The stage partners of the legendary Marcel Marceau are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth. Completely without words, the two pantomimes create a fantastic picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions. On this evening, they combine all the highlights from their long-standing stage program, which they have presented in over 30 countries. Whether theater lover or non-theatergoer, older generation, middle of life, or child: This theater experience makes everyone happy.

The Schwerin magician Wolfram von Bodecker and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they completed his legendary school and, after joint world tours with the grand master, founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has regularly come to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Pantomime: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including break)

FESTIVAL DER WORTLOSEN KOMIK
5/23/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The stage partners of the legendary Marcel Marceau are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth. Completely without words, the two pantomimes create a fantastic picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions. On this evening, they combine all the highlights from their long-standing stage program, which they have presented in over 30 countries. Whether theater lover or non-theatergoer, older generation, middle of life, or child: This theater experience makes everyone happy.

The Schwerin magician Wolfram von Bodecker and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they completed his legendary school and, after joint world tours with the grand master, founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has regularly come to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Pantomime: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including break)

FESTIVAL DER WORTLOSEN KOMIK
5/24/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The stage partners of the legendary Marcel Marceau are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth. Completely without words, the two pantomimes create a fantastic picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions. On this evening, they combine all the highlights from their long-standing stage program, which they have presented in over 30 countries. Whether theater lover or non-theatergoer, older generation, middle of life, or child: This theater experience makes everyone happy.

The Schwerin magician Wolfram von Bodecker and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they completed his legendary school and, after joint world tours with the grand master, founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has regularly come to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Pantomime: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including break)

FESTIVAL DER WORTLOSEN KOMIK
5/25/2025 at 5:00 PM / Dresden

The stage partners of the legendary Marcel Marceau are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth. Completely without words, the two pantomimes create a fantastic picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions. On this evening, they unite all the highlights from their long-standing stage program, which they have already presented in over 30 countries. Whether you're a theater lover or a non-theatergoer, older generation, in the midst of life or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy.

The Schwerin magician Wolfram von Bodecker and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they completed his legendary school and founded their own duo after touring the world with the master. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly performing their evenings at the Societaetstheater.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Pantomime: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

Remaining tickets possibly available at the box office

EH MAN HE – DIE MECHANIK DER SEELE
5/28/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

Nolan is a puppet. A life without his puppeteers seems meaningless. But when they bring him to life, he poses big questions: Where is my will? Are my feelings real? How could I breathe on my own? Can I fall in love?

This impressive piece by Cia. Zero en Conducta is a spectacle of physical theater, dance, mime, and puppet animation. It showcases the complexity of the small. Breathing does not just mean taking a breath, but living, with all that it entails. In the end, a puppet does not function so differently from a human. Or does it?

They transformed from an insider tip to a crowd favorite at the Dresden Schaubudensommer: Zero en Conducta, Teatre del Moviment, was founded in 2011 by José Antonio Puchades alias Putxa. The project explores the expressive potential of various performing arts in relation to movement. Its research focuses on the connection of physical mime, dance, puppets, and body theater. In 2012, Julieta Gascón joined as co-director, co-author, and performer. They solidified their artistic direction and expanded their physical possibilities. They have participated in numerous European, American, and Asian festivals in a total of 14 countries and have won five international awards for best show.

Idea & Choreography: Julieta Gascón, J.A. Puchades, David Maqueda | Performance: Amok Cor, Elena Lalucat, Pino Steiner, Julieta Gascón, J.A. Puchades | Technical & Light Design: David Maqueda | Composition and Sound Design: Bob González, Special Guest: Jorge da Rocha | Puppet Construction: Mina Trapp | Costume Design: Claudia Fascio

Duration: approximately 60 minutes

DIE BUCHHÄNDLERIN
5/28/2025 at 7:30 PM / Dresden

Two booksellers collide. With bags, packs, and plenty of opinions in tow. Acquired over several decades of life. And this has taken a decent bite out of both characters, shrinking them to people with rock-solid convictions, politically calibrated, arriving at their right and left midlife. And they can smell it immediately that they can't stand each other...

This is illustrated by the view into the bookshelf and the alliances made both professionally and privately. And so the red line is quickly drawn to delineate, making it clear: on your side of the line, one thinks differently, feels differently, reads differently – simply wrong.
One's own side is the only right one. Left, two, three, four. Morally as well as politically. Right, two, three, four. The other is ridiculed, demonized, fought against. With literature, with words and works, with morality – and the Nazi club. Because when one fights for the right cause, any means is justified. Because do we still have time for freedom of speech when the second blue wave rolls in 2021 and floods our Bundestag?

Authors: A. Wransky and Robert Wagner | Director: Mario Holetzeck | Cast: Kathleen Gaube, Oliver Seidel | Costume: Carolina Schmidt | Makeup: Christine Palme

Duration: approx. 80 minutes

Please use public transport to attend the event! Your entry ticket is valid in October, November, and December as a travel document four hours before the event starts until six hours after the event starts on all local transport – except mountain railways – in the fare zone Dresden. Online tickets are only valid as tickets when carrying a personal ID.

DIE LANGE SOCIE-NACHT
5/29/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

We celebrate one last Long Socie-Theater Night! For this, we have invited one of our favorite companies: Cia. Zero en Conducta. Around it, Cie. Freaks und Fremde will play, Yamile Navarro will dance to the music of Daniel Williams, and perform Krambambuli. The right atmosphere for the finale is provided by the Schrotti Star Orchestra. But the highlight of the evening is the award ceremony for the Dresden Theater Prize 2025.

The outgoing managing director of the Societaetstheater will splurge his last salary, donate it as prize money, and announce the Dresden Theater Prize 2025. All Socie productions from May 1, 2020, to today, and all new productions under the current theater management are up for selection. We have celebrated 54 premieres in all facets of the performing arts. And as at the Academy Awards in Hollywood, it will be the artists themselves who award the prize. Each production will vote - together with the staff of the house.

Since such a prize has not yet existed in Dresden's theater landscape, this could spark a fire, and perhaps next year another donor will emerge. On May 29, 2025, the five nominees will be announced, and during the Long Socie-Night, it will be: And the winner is...

Cia. Zero en Conducta, Schrotti Star Orchestra, Yamile Navarro, Daniel Williams, Cie. Freaks und Fremde, Krambambuli, among others.

Duration: approx. 180 minutes

DIE BUCHHÄNDLERIN
5/31/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

Two booksellers collide. With bags, packs, and plenty of opinions in tow. Acquired over several decades of life. And this has taken a decent bite out of both characters, shrinking them to people with rock-solid convictions, politically calibrated, arriving at their right and left midlife. And they can smell it immediately that they can't stand each other...

This is illustrated by the view into the bookshelf and the alliances made both professionally and privately. And so the red line is quickly drawn to delineate, making it clear: on your side of the line, one thinks differently, feels differently, reads differently – simply wrong.
One's own side is the only right one. Left, two, three, four. Morally as well as politically. Right, two, three, four. The other is ridiculed, demonized, fought against. With literature, with words and works, with morality – and the Nazi club. Because when one fights for the right cause, any means is justified. Because do we still have time for freedom of speech when the second blue wave rolls in 2021 and floods our Bundestag?

Authors: A. Wransky and Robert Wagner | Director: Mario Holetzeck | Cast: Kathleen Gaube, Oliver Seidel | Costume: Carolina Schmidt | Makeup: Christine Palme

Duration: approx. 80 minutes

Please use public transport to attend the event! Your entry ticket is valid in October, November, and December as a travel document four hours before the event starts until six hours after the event starts on all local transport – except mountain railways – in the fare zone Dresden. Online tickets are only valid as tickets when carrying a personal ID.

DIE GESCHICHTE VOM FUCHS, DER DEN VERSTAND VERLOR
6/1/2025 at 5:00 PM / Dresden

Once upon a time, there was a fox who knew everything a fox needs to know. Those who know everything can live long, thought the fox, and he lived a long life full of adventures. But then the fox forgot that he was a fox... The Düsseldorf author Martin Baltscheit has written this story and describes the problem of dementia with wit, empathy, and melancholy. A pair of performers, a musician, and a world of vivid memories unfold this life story.

In his prime, the clever fox passes on his experiences to the young ones, eventually becoming old and forgetful until he falls from the tree. And now he is mocked by those who once ran away from him. And the hunter's dogs, whom he tricked as a youthful Zorro, threaten to become an easy prey. But the young foxes care for him and heal his wounds. Only his mind they cannot heal, for the fox has lost it, and no one knows exactly where. At the center of the stage stands a stuffed fox – a lived life that unwinds before the eyes of the audience once more. But the large clock hanging above everything gets stuck, runs backwards, and time begins to crack. Competing, complementing, and reflecting, the two performers tell, sing, dance, and remember through this life. The last adventure is forgetting, and the story ends as it began: with a foxtrot.

Idea, set design, performance: Sabine Köhler, Heiki Ikkola | Composition and live music: Frieder Zimmermann | Assistant directing: Rüdiger Pape | Dramaturgy: Jutta M. Staerk | Artistic assistance: Max Reiniger | Lighting design: Falk Dittrich, Josia Werth | Photos, graphic design: Jean Sebastian Nass | A co-production with the Comedia Theater Cologne

Duration: 70 minutes

For a cross-generational audience from 6 years old.

FESTIVALTICKET
6/13/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

FESTIVALTICKET
6/14/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

FESTIVALTICKET
6/15/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

FESTIVALTICKET
6/16/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

HIER SOWIE DORT - Premiere
6/17/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

This piece is dedicated to the eternal search for the counterpart. A puppeteer and a trapeze artist explore the complex interactions of control, freedom, and longing. HIER SOWIE DORT combines figure and object theater with aerial acrobatics and dance to create a deeply touching and visually stunning experience. This wordless piece connects heaviness and lightness, mechanical and organic movement, isolation and encounter. It creates an atmosphere that feels both otherworldly and intimate at the same time. A quirky and absurd world that seems suspiciously familiar to us.

The puppets assert themselves as an all-too-human mirror of our own strangeness in the world of the other. It is the people here who are freed from their strings, until they – first seeking support, ultimately unleashed – dance into the sunset.

With their typical physical engagement in figure play, the hypnotic choreographies on the trapeze, and infused with moments full of comedy and poetic melancholy, they create a moving ode to the power of collective failure and new beginnings.

After the determined assertion WE NEVER NEVER NEVER and a contemplative OR PERHAPS? puppeteer JARNOTH and trapeze artist Moritz Haase, under the direction of Philipp Boë, now bring HIER SOWIE DORT, the final part of their odyssey, to the stage. As a conclusion to their trilogy on connection and separation, "HIER SOWIE DORT" consistently brings the thematic journey to an end: a symbol of the realization that opposites only find their true meaning in connection with one another. A closing chord that resonates long after.

Founded in 2018 by director Philipp Boë, puppeteer JARNOTH, and trapeze artist Moritz Haase, the company Raum 305 aims to develop an innovative stage language that transcends genres. The fusion of aerial acrobatics, puppetry, physical theatre, and dance provides the foundation for their pieces, which touch with a high degree of authenticity and virtuosity.

Direction: Philipp Boë | Performers: JARNOTH, Moritz Haase

Duration: 60 minutes

FESTIVALTICKET
6/17/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

HIER SOWIE DORT
6/18/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

This piece is dedicated to the eternal search for the counterpart. A puppeteer and a trapeze artist explore the complex interactions of control, freedom, and longing. HIER SOWIE DORT combines figure and object theater with aerial acrobatics and dance to create a deeply touching and visually stunning experience. This wordless piece connects heaviness and lightness, mechanical and organic movement, isolation and encounter. It creates an atmosphere that feels both otherworldly and intimate at the same time. A quirky and absurd world that seems suspiciously familiar to us.

The puppets assert themselves as an all-too-human mirror of our own strangeness in the world of the other. It is the people here who are freed from their strings, until they – first seeking support, ultimately unleashed – dance into the sunset.

With their typical physical engagement in figure play, the hypnotic choreographies on the trapeze, and infused with moments full of comedy and poetic melancholy, they create a moving ode to the power of collective failure and new beginnings.

After the determined assertion WE NEVER NEVER NEVER and a contemplative OR PERHAPS? puppeteer JARNOTH and trapeze artist Moritz Haase, under the direction of Philipp Boë, now bring HIER SOWIE DORT, the final part of their odyssey, to the stage. As a conclusion to their trilogy on connection and separation, "HIER SOWIE DORT" consistently brings the thematic journey to an end: a symbol of the realization that opposites only find their true meaning in connection with one another. A closing chord that resonates long after.

Founded in 2018 by director Philipp Boë, puppeteer JARNOTH, and trapeze artist Moritz Haase, the company Raum 305 aims to develop an innovative stage language that transcends genres. The fusion of aerial acrobatics, puppetry, physical theatre, and dance provides the foundation for their pieces, which touch with a high degree of authenticity and virtuosity.

Direction: Philipp Boë | Performers: JARNOTH, Moritz Haase

Duration: 60 minutes

FESTIVALTICKET
6/18/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

FESTIVALTICKET
6/19/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

70 %
6/20/2025 at 9:00 PM / Dresden

There is something to sell. There is something to say. It is something urgent that you cannot afford. It is not about what you think, but about what you pretend. Pause. You see it. You feel it, like the power of the waves.

A master thesis from the renowned acting school Accademia Teatro Dimitri in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was founded in 1975 by the clown Dimitri (1935-2016) and continues to train professional stage performers to this day.

Idea and performance: Emerson Damian Vergel | Music & sound design: Ariel Schlichter | External eye: Juan Pablo Gonzales, Didier Vergel | Photography: Nikolyne Ryde | Lighting design: Andrea Ferrari, Jacopo Sidari | Production: Accademia Dimitri

Duration: 35 minutes

Language/Language: Englisch/English

BLUEPRINT
6/20/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

In this unusual pas de deux, the dancer Mijin Kim and the acrobat Leon Börgens move across an uncertain playing field. They seek the right tone in their interaction and completely trust each other. A sensitive and humorous exploration of the many nuances of interpersonal relationships.

Here, circus and dance come together, with the classically danced pas de deux literally being turned upside down. In their finely tuned collaboration, delicate and strong gestures emerge that remain in the memory. Tenderly and determinedly, the two movement virtuosos lead us to and beyond the limits of their physical resources and into their pleasurable exhaustion. The specially composed music by Simon Bauer creates plastic spaces. It builds bridges or creates chasms of sound between the audience and the pulsating bodies. Fog and light erect transparent walls that reveal what is usually hidden: An intense physical dialogue.

BLUEPRINT is the conclusion of the trilogy "Human, Hyperobject and Transformation" by Overhead Project. The company is led by circus artist and choreographer Tim Behren and has been developing its circus-choreographic vocabulary at the intersection of contemporary circus and dance for over 15 years.

Overhead Project represents performances at the boundary between contemporary circus and dance – two languages that enable different perspectives on the human body and a multidimensional approach to space and architecture. The company, led by choreographer and circus artist Tim Behren, developed from intensive acrobatic duo work with former co-founder Florian Patschovsky. Today, the artistic core team consists of composer Simon Bauer, visual artist Charlotte Ducousso, performer Mijin Kim, and other long-time performers and thinkers from various fields. Numerous productions and several guest choreographies for city theaters with large ensembles have emerged so far. The company has received a series of international awards and choreography prizes for its works, including the Tabori Award from the Fonds Darstellende Künste in 2022 and most recently the Cologne Dance Theater Prize 2023 for "What is left."

Artistic Direction, Choreography: Tim Behren | Performance, Creation: Mijin Kim, Leon Börgens | Music Composition: Simon Bauer | Light Design: Moritz Bütow, Birk-André Hildebrandt | Costume Design: Fa-Hsuan Chen | Dramaturgy, Research: Anna Menzel | Outside Eye, Intersectional Sensitivity Reading: Julia Mischke, Senja Brütting | Technical Direction: Philipp Zander | Production Management: Lisa Lehnen | Management, PR: Mechtild Tellmann | International Networks: Valentina Barone | Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, and by LaFT BW e.V. from state funds resolved by the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Supported and co-produced by LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Tanzhaus Mannheim, and studiobühneköln. Supported as part of the residency program of PACT Zollverein (Essen), with funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The research preceding the project conception was made possible by a Flausen+Take Heart residency, funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

Duration: 60 minutes

TAGESTICKET
6/20/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

FESTIVALTICKET
6/20/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

70 %
6/21/2025 at 9:00 PM / Dresden

There is something to sell. There is something to say. It is something urgent that you cannot afford. It is not about what you think, but about what you pretend. Pause. You see it. You feel it, like the power of the waves.

A master thesis from the renowned acting school Accademia Teatro Dimitri in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was founded in 1975 by the clown Dimitri (1935-2016) and continues to train professional stage performers to this day.

Idea and performance: Emerson Damian Vergel | Music & sound design: Ariel Schlichter | External eye: Juan Pablo Gonzales, Didier Vergel | Photography: Nikolyne Ryde | Lighting design: Andrea Ferrari, Jacopo Sidari | Production: Accademia Dimitri

Duration: 35 minutes

Language/Language: Englisch/English

BLUEPRINT
6/21/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

In this unusual pas de deux, the dancer Mijin Kim and the acrobat Leon Börgens move across an uncertain playing field. They seek the right tone in their interaction and completely trust each other. A sensitive and humorous exploration of the many nuances of interpersonal relationships.

Here, circus and dance come together, with the classically danced pas de deux literally being turned upside down. In their finely tuned collaboration, delicate and strong gestures emerge that remain in the memory. Tenderly and determinedly, the two movement virtuosos lead us to and beyond the limits of their physical resources and into their pleasurable exhaustion. The specially composed music by Simon Bauer creates plastic spaces. It builds bridges or creates chasms of sound between the audience and the pulsating bodies. Fog and light erect transparent walls that reveal what is usually hidden: An intense physical dialogue.

BLUEPRINT is the conclusion of the trilogy "Human, Hyperobject and Transformation" by Overhead Project. The company is led by circus artist and choreographer Tim Behren and has been developing its circus-choreographic vocabulary at the intersection of contemporary circus and dance for over 15 years.

Overhead Project represents performances at the boundary between contemporary circus and dance – two languages that enable different perspectives on the human body and a multidimensional approach to space and architecture. The company, led by choreographer and circus artist Tim Behren, developed from intensive acrobatic duo work with former co-founder Florian Patschovsky. Today, the artistic core team consists of composer Simon Bauer, visual artist Charlotte Ducousso, performer Mijin Kim, and other long-time performers and thinkers from various fields. Numerous productions and several guest choreographies for city theaters with large ensembles have emerged so far. The company has received a series of international awards and choreography prizes for its works, including the Tabori Award from the Fonds Darstellende Künste in 2022 and most recently the Cologne Dance Theater Prize 2023 for "What is left."

Artistic Direction, Choreography: Tim Behren | Performance, Creation: Mijin Kim, Leon Börgens | Music Composition: Simon Bauer | Light Design: Moritz Bütow, Birk-André Hildebrandt | Costume Design: Fa-Hsuan Chen | Dramaturgy, Research: Anna Menzel | Outside Eye, Intersectional Sensitivity Reading: Julia Mischke, Senja Brütting | Technical Direction: Philipp Zander | Production Management: Lisa Lehnen | Management, PR: Mechtild Tellmann | International Networks: Valentina Barone | Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR, the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, and by LaFT BW e.V. from state funds resolved by the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Supported and co-produced by LOFFT – DAS THEATER Leipzig, Tanzhaus Mannheim, and studiobühneköln. Supported as part of the residency program of PACT Zollverein (Essen), with funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The research preceding the project conception was made possible by a Flausen+Take Heart residency, funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media as part of NEUSTART KULTUR.

Duration: 60 minutes

TAGESTICKET
6/21/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

FESTIVALTICKET
6/21/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

70 %
6/22/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

There is something to sell. There is something to say. It is something urgent that you cannot afford. It is not about what you think, but about what you pretend. Pause. You see it. You feel it, like the power of the waves.

A master thesis from the renowned acting school Accademia Teatro Dimitri in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It was founded in 1975 by the clown Dimitri (1935-2016) and continues to train professional stage performers to this day.

Idea and performance: Emerson Damian Vergel | Music & sound design: Ariel Schlichter | External eye: Juan Pablo Gonzales, Didier Vergel | Photography: Nikolyne Ryde | Lighting design: Andrea Ferrari, Jacopo Sidari | Production: Accademia Dimitri

Duration: 35 minutes

Language/Language: Englisch/English

TAGESTICKET
6/22/2025 at 11:00 AM / Dresden

FESTIVALTICKET
6/22/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

from € 110.00

FEATURE RING: PIGOR
6/23/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The traditional series FEATURE RING from HELLERAU is visiting the ZIRKUSTHEATER-FESTIVAL! Since 2007, the Ring Trio has been bringing exciting artists to the Elbe every month to dive into their own music. After a short acquaintance rehearsal, the performers jump into a workshop-like evening together: spontaneous, adventurous, and certainly unique! This time the guest is the cabaret artist and songwriter Thomas Igor.

In Franconia, there is the saying: "Five minutes of stupidity saves you an hour of work." Franconian Thomas Pigor enjoys making the hour of work with his cleverly observed texts. Insanely productive, he writes revues, musicals, operettas, and librettos, as well as German adaptations of comic oratorios, for example "The Life of Brian." Pigor's life was early influenced by his existence as a street musician in the duo Knacko and Konfetti. It is unknown whether as Knacko or as Konfetti? This question and perhaps also the one about the secret of the 30-year-long cabaret relationship with Benedikt Eichhorn will be attempted to be clarified in the stage conversation with Demian Kappenstein. Together with his colleagues Felix-Otto Jacobi (double bass) and Eren Solak (keyboard instruments), he creates a musical counterpoint to the word juggler with a mix of Italo-House, noise, and polka. What is circus, theater, improvisation, or the underestimated genre of small arts will still be decided by the audience in the tent!

Demian Kappenstein (percussion, conversation), Felix-Otto Jacobi (double bass), Eren Solak (keyboard instruments)

Duration: approx. 90 minutes (including break)

FESTIVALTICKET
6/23/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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FESTIVALTICKET
6/24/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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A BODY AND OTHER OBJECTS
6/25/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

A BODY AND OTHER OBJECTS defines the human body both as organic material and as a static artifact. The performance blurs the boundaries between the animated and the inanimate. In a dynamic interplay between Ana Jordão, Vincent Kollar, and the objects they work with, surreal scenarios emerge. Each element becomes an active protagonist in the narrative.

At the center of the piece is a traditional circus discipline, Hairhanging, which involves hanging by one's hair. The artists explore the performative and artistic potential of such rigging gestures. From this hybrid language arises a meditative and impactful work, a body soaring almost weightlessly, an orchestra of bodies. It is as if the curtain is drawn back and we catch a glimpse behind the scenes, beneath the flesh, and into the heart and mind.

This performative fabric is interwoven with a musical composition by Fabian Laute, where the music sometimes drives the action on stage and at other times brings it to a standstill. Throughout the piece, the audience is invited to gently explore a series of binary terms such as masculinity and femininity, physicality and objecthood, or reality and illusion.

Concept: Ana Jordão | Performance: Ana Jordão, Vincent Kollar | Music: Fabian Laute | Rigging Design: Vincent Kollar | Research Assistance: Andrea Salustri, Aleš Hrdlička, Pia Meuthen, Benjamin Richter, Yotam Peled, Geordie Brookman

Duration: 60 minutes

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6/25/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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6/26/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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20 YEARS LATER, STILL HERE!
6/27/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

An autobiographical show about the wild ride of two women through 23 years of circus art. Told with warmth, humor, and dizzying acrobatics, this show invites you to experience the ups and downs of a life in show business. From glitter and glamour to hours of training, blood, sweat, and tears. Lotta & Stina provide an unvarnished glimpse into their lives as artists and a friendship that has stood the test of time.

Lotta Paavilainen and Stina Kopra are award-winning performers who began to work together on the Rola-Bola, a balance board, in 2001 while working with a youth circus in Finland. They spent three years perfecting their technique at the prestigious and demanding Ecole Superieure des Arts du Cirque in Brussels, where they graduated with honors in 2008. Since then, they have performed in the most renowned variety shows, cabarets, traditional and contemporary circuses, theater productions, operas, and street festivals across Europe and have toured with their own productions.

Performance and Creation: Lotta Paavilainen, Stina Kopra | Editing and Design: Heidi Niemi, Troels Hagen Findsen | Costumes: Enna Paavilainen | Lighting: Vilma Vantola | Sound: Satu Kankkonen, Palle Nothlev

Duration: 65 minutes

Recommended for ages 12 and up. In English and German.

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6/27/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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EIN HUNGERKÜNSTLER
6/28/2025 at 8:30 PM / Dresden

It is all a matter of appetite. One craves power and money, another longs for love, luxury a third seeks idleness or stoic calmness. Franz Kafka's hunger artist desires none of that, but no one should claim he yearns for nothing at all. No, he is ambitious, nearly addicted to fame; he wants people to watch him with admiration as he starves in his cage. A parable about the lonely truth of being an artist.

The tragedy of this artist is not the need to starve out of bitter deprivation, for he has long since come to terms with the fact that the world does not cater to his taste. His dissatisfaction with himself only derives from how terribly easy it is for him to starve. His true drama is the gradual fading away of the audience. He goes to great lengths to bind the viewer to himself. He must go to the limit, to the edge of life. His spectacular experience, he wants to throw to the audience as a feast, to nourish them with his display of hunger, to pamper and astonish them. He is an artist, and only in death will his art be perfect.

In the interplay of language, puppetry, and music, the Compagnie Freaks und Fremde dedicates itself to the dilemma of artists who, on one hand, are to be completely free and, on the other hand, must adapt to the art industry.

Puppetry, performance: Sabine Köhler, Heiki Ikkola

Duration: 45 minutes

Language: German/German

PERMEABLE BODIES
6/28/2025 at 7:30 PM / Dresden

It is an unusual circus apparatus: a mobile made of metal rods, ropes, and gray granite stones. In it, the search for balance and the encounter between gravity and weightlessness are visualized. The installation gradually comes together throughout the piece, with the individual parts being treated with particular care and attention as encounter partners for the two performers. Behind this lies the question of a new value of things in an anthropocentric world that is heading towards its own destruction through overconsumption and mass production. What if we were more mindful of ourselves? Of the people around us, of animals, and even of things? What if we were more permeable?

Concept, direction, and performance: Emma Laule | Choreography & performance: Alba de Miguel | Music: Cesar Balleyguier | Light design: Anton Ihlenfeldt, Ole Büttner | Scenography & costumes: Emma Laule | Artistic assistance: Miguel Gonzalez Padilla | Advisor: Ana Jordão, Benjamin Richter, Karoline Aåmas | Production: Nicole Meier (art revolution)

Duration: 60 minutes

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6/28/2025 at 6:00 PM / Dresden

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MASKEN*BALL
7/6/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The two pantomimes living in Berlin, Wolfram von Bodecker and Alexander Neander, are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth - all without words. With their picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions, they have been delighting their audience for many years. In their program MASKEN*BALL, they pull out all the stops of the art of transformation and let us travel through space and time. Whether a theater lover or a convinced non-theater-goer, an older generation, someone in the midst of life, or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy!

The magician from Schwerin, Wolfram von Bodecker, and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they went through his legendary school and after joint world tours with the master, they founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly coming to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Performers: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

MASKEN*BALL
7/7/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The two pantomimes living in Berlin, Wolfram von Bodecker and Alexander Neander, are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth - all without words. With their picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions, they have been delighting their audience for many years. In their program MASKEN*BALL, they pull out all the stops of the art of transformation and let us travel through space and time. Whether a theater lover or a convinced non-theater-goer, an older generation, someone in the midst of life, or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy!

The magician from Schwerin, Wolfram von Bodecker, and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they went through his legendary school and after joint world tours with the master, they founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly coming to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Performers: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

MASKEN*BALL
7/8/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The two pantomimes living in Berlin, Wolfram von Bodecker and Alexander Neander, are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth - all without words. With their picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions, they have been delighting their audience for many years. In their program MASKEN*BALL, they pull out all the stops of the art of transformation and let us travel through space and time. Whether a theater lover or a convinced non-theater-goer, an older generation, someone in the midst of life, or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy!

The magician from Schwerin, Wolfram von Bodecker, and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they went through his legendary school and after joint world tours with the master, they founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly coming to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Performers: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

MASKEN*BALL
7/9/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The two pantomimes living in Berlin, Wolfram von Bodecker and Alexander Neander, are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth - all without words. With their picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions, they have been delighting their audience for many years. In their program MASKEN*BALL, they pull out all the stops of the art of transformation and let us travel through space and time. Whether a theater lover or a convinced non-theater-goer, an older generation, someone in the midst of life, or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy!

The magician from Schwerin, Wolfram von Bodecker, and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they went through his legendary school and after joint world tours with the master, they founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly coming to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Performers: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

MASKEN*BALL
7/10/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The two pantomimes living in Berlin, Wolfram von Bodecker and Alexander Neander, are a guarantee for pointed humor and touching depth - all without words. With their picture theater full of magic, poetry, comedy, and optical illusions, they have been delighting their audience for many years. In their program MASKEN*BALL, they pull out all the stops of the art of transformation and let us travel through space and time. Whether a theater lover or a convinced non-theater-goer, an older generation, someone in the midst of life, or a child: This theater experience makes everyone happy!

The magician from Schwerin, Wolfram von Bodecker, and the Paris-born Alexander Neander met during their studies with Marcel Marceau in Paris. As pantomime artists, they went through his legendary school and after joint world tours with the master, they founded their own duo. For many years, Cie. Bodecker & Neander has been regularly coming to the Societaetstheater with their evenings.

Director: Lionel Ménard | Performers: Wolfram von Bodecker, Alexander Neander

Duration: approx. 110 minutes (including intermission)

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival
9/12/2025 at 7:00 PM / Dresden

In each year at the end of summer, The Sound of Bronkow happens, like a cold or a construction site, like a scruffy old dog that mostly just lies in the corner and sleeps, but then gets up again to bite or to receive some affection. The Sound of Bronkow is a music festival whose musical starting points lie in contemporary folk, singer-songwriters, and Americana, but it sniffs around for great and surprising bands and artists across all genre boundaries, presents newcomers free of charge on a garden stage in the afternoon, and celebrates exhilarating concerts in the evening in several theater halls on fantastically decorated stages. The 15th edition will take place from September 12 to 14, 2025, once again at and around the Societaetstheater in Dresden. We promise the most wonderful line-up since 2024!

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival is created in collaboration between the Dresden record label K&F RECORDS and the SOCIETAETSTHEATER DRESDEN, together with many dear friends and helping hands, and it is made for: You.

with:
Tristan Brusch (DE)
Die Quittung (DE)
Short Ideas (FR)
Baby Smith (AUS)
Tomo Katsurada (JPN)
NOWAVES (DE)
John Blek & The Broken Strings (IRL/DE)
Stina Holmquist & Band (DE)
Twisted Teens (USA)
The Gentle Lurch (DE)
Federhall (DE)
and many more.

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival
9/13/2025 at 7:00 PM / Dresden

In each year at the end of summer, The Sound of Bronkow happens, like a cold or a construction site, like a scruffy old dog that mostly just lies in the corner and sleeps, but then gets up again to bite or to receive some affection. The Sound of Bronkow is a music festival whose musical starting points lie in contemporary folk, singer-songwriters, and Americana, but it sniffs around for great and surprising bands and artists across all genre boundaries, presents newcomers free of charge on a garden stage in the afternoon, and celebrates exhilarating concerts in the evening in several theater halls on fantastically decorated stages. The 15th edition will take place from September 12 to 14, 2025, once again at and around the Societaetstheater in Dresden. We promise the most wonderful line-up since 2024!

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival is created in collaboration between the Dresden record label K&F RECORDS and the SOCIETAETSTHEATER DRESDEN, together with many dear friends and helping hands, and it is made for: You.

with:
Tristan Brusch (DE)
Die Quittung (DE)
Short Ideas (FR)
Baby Smith (AUS)
Tomo Katsurada (JPN)
NOWAVES (DE)
John Blek & The Broken Strings (IRL/DE)
Stina Holmquist & Band (DE)
Twisted Teens (USA)
The Gentle Lurch (DE)
Federhall (DE)
and many more.

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival
9/14/2025 at 7:00 PM / Dresden

In each year at the end of summer, The Sound of Bronkow happens, like a cold or a construction site, like a scruffy old dog that mostly just lies in the corner and sleeps, but then gets up again to bite or to receive some affection. The Sound of Bronkow is a music festival whose musical starting points lie in contemporary folk, singer-songwriters, and Americana, but it sniffs around for great and surprising bands and artists across all genre boundaries, presents newcomers free of charge on a garden stage in the afternoon, and celebrates exhilarating concerts in the evening in several theater halls on fantastically decorated stages. The 15th edition will take place from September 12 to 14, 2025, once again at and around the Societaetstheater in Dresden. We promise the most wonderful line-up since 2024!

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival is created in collaboration between the Dresden record label K&F RECORDS and the SOCIETAETSTHEATER DRESDEN, together with many dear friends and helping hands, and it is made for: You.

with:
Tristan Brusch (DE)
Die Quittung (DE)
Short Ideas (FR)
Baby Smith (AUS)
Tomo Katsurada (JPN)
NOWAVES (DE)
John Blek & The Broken Strings (IRL/DE)
Stina Holmquist & Band (DE)
Twisted Teens (USA)
The Gentle Lurch (DE)
Federhall (DE)
and many more.

SOB - SONNTAGSKONZERT
9/14/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

The Wahl-Berliner plays more than just guitar, he sings, breathes, spits, making infinitely beautiful things visible alongside the ugly. One can find comfort elsewhere. Tristan Brusch's talent is fully realized only when one experiences him on stage. He does not hold back, neither does the audience; simply sitting by with a beer is not an option here. Stage magic, that's a word for the next time you play Scrabble, but at a Tristan Brusch concert, one gets a sense of what it could actually mean. "Am Wahn," his current album, is the wild, disturbingly beautiful document of a hyper-toxic relationship. It's an enthralling, lavish declaration of love for the grand days of pop music, with great gestures and chanson, with which Tristan Brusch does not make the mistake of playing it safe for even a second.

The Sound of Bronkow Music Festival is created in collaboration between the Dresden label K&F RECORDS and the SOCIETAETSTHEATER DRESDEN, together with many dear friends and helping hands, and it is just made for: You.

DAS PEN!SMUSEUM - Mareike Fallwickl & Eva Reisinger
9/19/2025 at 8:00 PM / Dresden

Angry, unpredictable, and untamed – the female characters of Mareike Fallwickl and Eva Reisinger have had enough. They won’t put up with anything anymore, behaving differently than society expects of them, living differently, loving differently, hating differently. They don’t want to have to function, they are ruthless and strikingly original. While Anna is unfaithful during her late pregnancy, Sabine secretly photographs her husband’s flaccid penis. Gabi stirs salt into her one-night stand’s coffee in the morning, and the boss is weaning herself off her permanent smile with Botox treatments. When Mareike Fallwickl and Eva Reisinger write a book together, it becomes a literary fireworks display. Bitterly funny, uncompromising, and incredibly amusing, the stories read as women break free from their socialization – a liberating blow, a revelation, the sensation of the autumn literary season! With contributions from Gertraud Klemm, Jovana Reisinger, Sophia Süßmilch, Andrea Z. Scharf. A literary declaration of war: funny, liberating & uncompromising.

Mareike Fallwickl has already published several novels. "Die Wut, die bleibt" (Rowohlt 2022) was staged at the Salzburg Festival and will be filmed in 2026. "Und alle so still" (Rowohlt 2024) was on the Spiegel bestseller list and was brought to the stage. Mareike Fallwickl advocates for the transmission of literature, focusing on female narrative voices.

Eva Reisinger grew up in the Upper Austrian province between tent festivals and vodka bulls. From 2017, she built a focus on Austria for the young medium of ZEIT and reported as a correspondent from the neighboring country. Her first book "Was geht, Österreich?" was published in 2021 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Her bestseller "Männer töten" (Leykam 2023) was nominated for the Austrian Book Prize debut.

Reading and conversation: Mareike Fallwickl, Eva Reisinger

Duration: 90 minutes

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