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Unsbewusst Accompanied by the inspirational word »unsbewusst«, the Lausitz Festival 2025 is about the self in the other and the other in me. It is about us – human beings – and therefore about ourselves.

By bus and train to the festival Just leave your car behind and take the bus or train to the Lausitz Festival? Sure!

Dance! Everybody! – Workshops with »HERE« trio As part of their dance theatre performance »HERE«, Andrew Schneider, Margaux Marielle-Tréhoüart and Joel Suárez Gómez are offering exclusive dance workshops. The »HERE« trio will provide deep insights into their work in developing precise choreographies.

Our circle of friends is here. It's official: Lausitz Festival now has a circle of friends.

New »Krabat« opera: Co-production Lausitz Festival & Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theatre Görlitz-Zittau Together with the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau (GHT), the Lausitz Festival has commissioned composer Marius Felix Lange to write a family opera about the Sorbian legendary figure Krabat. The premiere will take place on 13 September.

»Othello / The Strangers« – Shakespeare play back in programme 2025 In the acclaimed theatre production of his own version of »Othello / The Strangers« by William Shakespeare, director Marcel Kohler and his team combine the Danner Hall on the Telux site and the thrilling plot in a congenial way.

Lorenzo Soulès im Interview Mit einem besonderen Abend trägt das Lausitz Festival zu den Internationalen Messiaen-Tagen Görlitz-Zgorzelec bei: »Poetische Federlese« (auf Polnisch »Poetiske wono«) heißt die Soiree am 26. April um 19 Uhr in der Rabryka in Görlitz.

In memory of Hanjo Kesting We mourn the loss of the great cultural publicist and friend of the Lausitz Festival Hanjo Kesting, who died in Hamburg on 20 February shortly after his 82nd birthday.