Beyond the festival
Theatre Productions:
»Empusion«
Premiered at Lausitz Festival 2024
After the German-language premiere of »Empusion« at Lausitz Festival in early September 2024 in Forst, and following performances in Cologne and Basel and in Prague in December 2025, the original production is once again on the programme at Theater Basel.
A play based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk. About discarded male souls, their unfulfilled desires, dreams and fantasies of power. And about the unknown (female) history of Silesia.
Co-production with Theater Basel and Schauspiel Köln. In collaboration with Staatstheater Cottbus.
Theater Basel – Kleine Bühne:
27 March 2026 I 8 p.m.
28 March 2026 I 8 p.m.
25 April 2026 I 8 p.m.
26 April 2026 I 7 p.m.
»Krabat«
Premiered at Lausitz Festival 2025
Krabat – the most famous legendary figure in Sorbian culture – can be seen as a family opera in 19 scenes by Marius Felix Lange until January 2026. The co-production by Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz-Zittau (GHT) and the Lausitz Festival celebrated its premiere on 13 September 2025 and will be shown on the following dates at GHT:
Haus Görlitz – Great Hall:
25 January 2026 I 3 p.m.
Scenic Readings:
»Sei gegrüßt und lebe!«
Correspondence between Brigitte Reimann and Christa Wolf, 1963–1973
A friendship in letters and diaries
First performed at Lausitz Festival in 2023
Since then, several times on stage in Dresden
From the correspondence between writers Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann: The exchange between these two very different women lasted ten years and covered art and life, everyday life and love. Both held fast to the ideal of a more just society – regardless of dogmas and constraints. As the letters and diary entries exchanged between 1963 and 1973 touchingly show, Christa Wolf and Brigitte Reimann, who died in 1973 at the age of only 40, were bound by a deep friendship.
Staatsschauspiel Dresden – Kleines Haus 3:
18 January 2026 I 7 p.m.
»Zwischen Welten«
Premiered at Lausitz Festival 2025
Twenty years ago, their paths diverged: Theresa took over the family farm in Brandenburg. Stefan rose to become department head at a weekly newspaper in Hamburg. A surprise reunion sets off an intense exchange of emails: the different experiences of the former friends have led to different attitudes. Opposites collide. It's about the desire for change and the question of how. And about who will pay the bill in the end.
Based on the novel of the same name by Juli Zeh and Simon Urban.
Staatstheater Cottbus:
20 February 2026 I 7:30 p.m.
14 March 2026 I 7:30 p.m.