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Season 23/24

We welcome you to the 23/24 season at the Münchner Kammerspiele - to emotional, challenging, linguistically powerful theatre experiences. This season will be political, physical and interplanetary.

Season 23/24

We open with a large ensemble piece directed by Jan Bosse: “Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein” by Sasha Marianna Salzmann. Salzmann tells of the end times of the USSR and of the profound upheavals in our present. The young Lithuanian director Kamilė Gudmonaitė, whose production “Ха́та - Zuhause” brings Ukrainians and Russians together on stage, also tells of the enormous conflicts in Eastern Europe.

Karin Henkel’s production “Liebe” marks the beginning of a series of works that deal sensually and poetically with the vulnerability of our bodies and how we deal with death and mortality. And in Nora Abdel-Maksoud’s new play, the world of the health system even strikes comedic sparks.

A third major theme of this season is dealing with the ecological crisis of our planet. Elfriede Jelinek’s newest work “Sonne / Luft”, directed by Falk Richter, will let the sun itself speak to us - in “Die Verteidigung des Paradieses” we travel to a post-apocalypse Bavaria with Thomas von Steinaecker’s exuberant science fiction story.

We look forward to Lena Christ, Frau Schmidt, Jan Marsalek, Prospero, Elon Musk, Miss Strangeworth and the sun. And we look forward to welcoming you!

Barbara Mundel & Team

Premieres 23/24

Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein

What happens when political systems collapse?

Adapted from the Novel by Sasha Marianna Salzmann

Directed by: Jan Bosse

Opening night: 30.9.2023, Schauspielhaus

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Fünf bis sechs Semmeln und eine kalte Wurst

“And did it do you any harm?”

On Innkeepers’ Daughters and their Mothers with Texts by Lena Christ and Annette Paulmann
World Premiere

Directed by: Annette Paulmann

Opening night: 6.10.2023, Werkraum

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Ха́та – Zuhause

What comes after hate?

A Choral Piece with Ukrainian and Russian People Living in Munich by Kamilė Gudmonaitė
World Premiere

Directed by: Kamilė Gudmonaitė

Opening night: 13.10.2023, Schauspielhaus

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Liebe

Is there such a thing as a good death?

A Play Adapted from the Film by Michael Haneke
World Premiere

Directed by: Karin Henkel

Opening night: 21.10.2023, Schauspielhaus

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WoW – World on a Wirecard

A contemporary dystopian financial thriller.

A Play by Anka Herbut Inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
World Premiere

Directed by: Łukasz Twarkowski

Opening night: 17.11.23, Therese-Giehse-Halle

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Frau Schmidt und das Kind aus Charkiw

“We are a people of psychopaths that other peoples must now keep an eye on.”

Europe Trilogy II by Anne Habermehl
World Premiere

Directed by: Anne Habermehl

Opening night: 24.11.23, Werkraum

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Der Sturm / Das Dämmern der Welt

“The truth is that the war never ended.”

By William Shakespeare & Werner Herzog

Directed by: Jan-Christoph Gockel

Opening night: 15.12.23, Schauspielhaus

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Als lebten wir in einem barmherzigen Land

“For 4,000 years we’ve been telling each other that we can defeat any monster if we know its true identity.”

By A L Kennedy
World Premiere

Directed by: Sandra Strunz

Opening night: 26.1.24, Schauspielhaus

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In Ordnung

“Maybe only those who give up the assumption of knowing what a better world will look like can arrive in this better world?”

An Ensemble Dance Piece by Doris Uhlich
World Premiere

Direction & choreography: Doris Uhlich

Opening night: 3.2.24, Schauspielhaus

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Land

It’s not the earth’s fault.

Three Snapshots of Bavaria by Christoph Frick, Lothar Kittstein & the Ensemble
World Premiere

Directed by: Christoph Frick

Opening night: 9.2.24, Therese-Giehse-Halle

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Die Möglichkeit des Bösen

“But people everywhere were lustful and evil and degraded, and needed to be watched.”

Close-up on a Secret Pleasure by Shirley Jackson
World Premiere

Directed by: Marie Schleef

Opening night: 23.3.24, Therese-Giehse-Halle

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Doping

Free agent in free fall.

A Comedy by Nora Abdel-Maksoud
World Premiere

Directed by: Nora Abdel-Maksoud

Opening night: 5.4.24, Schauspielhaus

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Sonne / Luft

Now we’re getting into a tight spot, there’s is no more room to breathe.

An Apocalyptic Farewell by Elfriede Jelinek

Directed by: Falk Richter

Opening night: 26.4.24, Schauspielhaus

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Die Verteidigung des Paradieses

Apocalypse in Bavaria!

An End-Times Fantasy Based on the Novel by Thomas von Steinaecker
World Premiere

Directed by: Gernot Grünewald

Opening night: 6.6.24, Therese-Giehse-Halle

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Very Rich Angels

A hit parade to Mars.

An Intergalactic Musical
By Madame Nielsen & Christian Lollike
World Premiere

Directed by: Christian Lollike

Opening night: 7.6.24, Schauspielhaus

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Still on the playbill

Anti·gone

Adapted from Sophocles

Directed by: Nele Jahnke

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Anti War Women

How women threaten the war by Jessica Glause and Ensemble with music by Eva Jantschitsch
World Premiere

Directed by: Jessica Glause

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A scheene Leich

By Gerhard Polt, the Well-Brüder and Ruedi Häusermann
World Premiere

Directed by: Ruedi Häusermann

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Die Freiheit einer Frau

Based on the novel by Édouard Louis

Directed by: Felicitas Brucker

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Die Geschichte von Goliat und David

A research project by Ayşe Güvendiren
World Premiere

Directed by: Ayşe Güvendiren

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Die Vaterlosen

A comedy by Anton Chekhov

Directed by: Jette Steckel

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Dionysos Stadt

Directed by: Christopher Rüping

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Effingers

Based on the novel by Gabriele Tergit
World premiere

Directed by: Jan Bosse

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Eure Paläste sind leer (all we ever wanted)

By Thomas Köck
World premiere

Directed by: Jan-Christoph Gockel

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Frau Schmidt fährt über die Oder

By Anne Habermehl
World premiere

Directed by: Anne Habermehl

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Green Corridors / Зелені коридори

Survey of a War by Natalka Vorozhbyt

Directed by: Jan-Christoph Gockel

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Horror und andere Sachen

A horror dance with live direction by Tiziana Pagliaro, the ensemble and team
World premiere

Directed by: Tiziana Pagliaro

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Hungry Ghosts

A farce about lost memories and complicated biographies by Anna Smolar and ensemble
World premiere

Directed by: Anna Smolar

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LA MER SOMBRE

With texts and ideas by Claude Cahun

Directed by: Pınar Karabulut

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Like Lovers Do (Memoiren der Medusa)

By Sivan Ben Yishai
World premiere

Director & Choreographer: Pınar Karabulut

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Jeeps

In 3 acts by Nora Abdel-Maksoud
World premiere

Directed by: Nora Abdel-Maksoud

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Nora

A thriller by Sivan Ben Yishai, Henrik Ibsen, Gerhild Steinbuch, Ivna Žic
Wold premiere

Directed by: Felicitas Brucker

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R-Faktor. Das Unfassbare

By Ayşe Güvendiren
World premiere

Directed by: Ayşe Güvendiren

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Richard Drei – Mitteilungen der Ministerin der Hölle

Directed by: Peter Kastenmüller

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Wer immer hofft, stirbt singend

The repair of a revue, from stories and themes by Alexander Kluge
World premiere

Directed by: Jan-Christoph Gockel

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Who cares – können Roboter pflegen?

By Gesine Schmidt
World premiere

Directed by: Christoph Frick

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Les statues rêvent aussi. Vision einer Rückkehr

A simultaneous performance between West Africa and Munich by Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Jan-Christoph Gockel & Ensemble
World premier

Directed by: Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Jan-Christoph Gockel

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International guest performances

La posibilidad de la ternura / Die Möglichkeit von Zärtlichkeit
The Voice of Fingers
C la vie
Dos Vidas. Zwei Leben

Sisterhoods

Damaskus
Kyjiw
Lomé / Bobo Dioulasso
Warszawa

All Abled Arts

Kooperationen
Showcase
Publikation: Perlen und Wölfe

MK: Music 23/24

Pantopia Festival
20 Jahre Staatsakt
Die Geschichte des Jahrhunderts: TR*
Nacht der luziden Träume
Postcolonialism
A Million Mercies
MK Projects
Habibi Kiosk

Schauburg zu Gast

Think Big! #10
Ein Sommernachtstraum

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