Construction of the Elbe Philharmonic is underway, with its opening planned for autumn, 2011. Hamburg?s creative artists are not alone in seeing a new landmark for their city in this spectacular concert hall....
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Today's theatre is losing its pull. Why? "Maybe we don't cook so well these days. No one goes to a restaurant if it doesn't serve good food. We put ourselves 60 centimetres over other people. If we don't have anything to say, we shouldn't put ourselves there in the first place", says director Andrea Breth. An interview with Stefan Keim and Reinhard Wengierek (Image: © Bernd Uhlig)
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Christoph Schlingensief's controversial "Parsifal" is showing at the Wagner Festival for the second year running. He talks to Tina Hildebrandt and Stephan Lebert about hero
impersonators in politics, zombies in Bayreuth and pre-election Germany.
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Is there an East / West war in German theatre? Is the Berlin Cultural
Senator an agent of sinister socialist forces? Is a new Wall going up
in the capital? Or are budget cuts finally bringing together what
belong together? A report from the Berlin battlefield. By Peter Kümmel.
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