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CALL OUT – For theatre production in Forst We are looking for participants for the citizens' choir in the production: »It Pisses Me Off. Your Croppy Stuff!« - Forster Citizens Rehearse Coriolan.

»Blickfänge« move on to Zittau We are opening the next part of our travelling exhibition »Blickfänge – Snapshots at the Lausitz Festival« at the Christian Weise Library in Zittau with a vernissage on 20 May. The exhibition runs from 23 May to 23 July.

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.

»Empusion« on Tour – Next stop: Basel Following the German-language premiere of »Empusion« at the Lausitz Festival in Forst at the beginning of September 2024 and after the festival in Cologne, the original production will celebrate its premiere in Basel on 30 April.

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.