Hamlet

Marcel Kohler works regularly as a director and set designer, for example at the State Theatre Nuremberg, the National Theatre Weimar, the German Theatre Berlin, the State Theatre Dresden and the Heidelberg Theatre. His productions have been honoured in a retrospective at the Faust Prize, amongst other accolades, and were awarded the Dr Otto Kasten Prize by the Intendant:innengruppe in 2021. They have also been invited to renowned festivals such as the Ruhrfestspiele, the Mülheim Theatre Days, the Fringe Festival in Beijing, China, the Gogol Festival in Kyiv, Ukraine, the Festival di Spoleto in Italy and the Fiesad Festival in Rabat, Morocco. Marcel Kohler is the initiator and founding member of the New Artists' Theatre. In 2023, he received the Berlin Art Prize and was elected a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts in 2024. At the Lausitz Festival in 2024, he directed »Othello/Die Fremden« in Weißwasser.  

In the theatre, Corinna Harfouch worked with directors such as Heiner Müller (»Macbeth«, 1983), Horst Sagert (»Faust-Szenen«, 1984), Frank Castorf (»Des Teufels General«, 1996), Jürgen Gosch (»Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf?«, 2004, »Ein Sommernachtstraum«, 2007, »Die Möwe«, 2008) and Herbert Fritsch (»Die Physiker«, 2013). As a director, she staged works by Chekhov, Marguerite Duras, Etel Adnan and others. 

Her most notable film and television works include »Die Schauspielerin« (1988), »Treffen in Travers« (1988), »Charlie & Louise« (1994), »Sexy Sadie« (1996), »Gefährliche Freundin« (1996), “Der große Bagarozy” (1999), »Vera Brühne« (2000), »Bibi Blocksberg«  (2001), »Der Untergang« (2004), »Rose« (2005), »This is Love« (2009), »Giulias Verschwinden« (2009), »Was bleibt« (2012), »Puppe« (2012), “The Bruckner Case” (2014), “Lara” (2017), “Deutschland 89” (2019), “Everything in Order” (2020),  and many others. Since 2023, she has played the role of Berlin »Tatort« detective Susanne Bonard. 

Corinna Harfouch is passionate about literature. For her own reading theatre, she has developed programmes – often in collaboration with other artists – based on texts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Karl Kraus, Else Lasker-Schüler, Heiner Müller, Etel Adnan, Christa Wolf, Philippe Malone and others. She is in demand as a narrator for radio plays and audiobooks, including works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Katia Mann, Arno Schmidt, Christa Wolf, Lothar Trolle and Thomas Heise. 

Corinna Harfouch has received the Gertrud Eysoldt Ring, the Actress of the Year award, the Berlin Theatre Prize, the Grimme Prize, the Golden Camera, the German Actors’ Award and numerous other honours. 

Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance actress at venues including the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin, the People's Stage Berlin, the Bochum Theatre, the Munich People's Theatre, Malmö City Theatre, Lübeck Theatre, the Baden State Theatre in Karlsruhe and Basel Theatre. In 2006, she won the Kilianspreis for Best Actress, and in 2010 she was nominated for Best Young Actress in North Rhine-Westphalia. Alongside her work as an actress, she also studied cultural management at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. Since then, she has also worked as a production manager and producer, collaborating with Fabian Hinrichs on the Foreign Affairs festival and the Nordwind Festival, with choreographers Simone Aughterlony, Kat Válastur and Ligia Lewis, and, since 2015, with the theatre collective machina eX. 

Her first engagement took her to the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, she appeared at the Berliner Theatertreffen as Cassandra in »Beute Frauen Krieg« (directed by Karin Henkel). She then worked as a freelance actress, performing on stages including the Maxim Gorki Theatre, the Lucerne Theatre and at the Salzburg Festival. From the 2020/21 season, she was a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna for two years. In addition to her work in theatre, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet also appears regularly in various film and television productions. 

She played the title role in the film »Die rote Zora«. From the 2016/17 season onwards, Linn Reusse was a member of the ensemble at the German Theatre Berlin. There she worked with, amongst others, Stephan Kimmig, Daniela Löffner, Timofej Kuljabin, Lilja Rupprecht, Karin Henkel and Jossi Wieler. At the Nibelungen Festival in Worms in 2018, Linn Reusse played Swanhild in »Siegfrieds Erben«, directed by Roger Vontobel.  In 2019, she received the Daphne Prize from the Theater Gemeinde Berlin, which honours outstanding young performers on Berlin’s cultural scene. In 2023, Linn Reusse appeared at the Salzburg Festival in »Nathan der Weise«, directed by Ulrich Rasche. 

She is a member of the Neues Künstlertheater, experiments with live drawing on stage, and runs the mental health blog »Semikolon« together with journalist Maja Goertz. She also regularly narrates audiobooks and radio plays. Linn Reusse has been a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg since the 2023/24 season. In 2025, she was awarded the Ulrich Wildgruber Prize.

As part of the Lausitz Festival, he played Othello in the production »Othello/Die Fremden« in 2024 and 2025. His career to date has seen him collaborate with Jorinde Dröse, Marcel Kohler, Ayşe Güvendiren and Christian Weise, amongst others. In addition to theatre, Leonard Burkhardt also works in film and as a voice actor. 

Before beginning his acting studies at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin in 2014, he was also a member of the company at the Young Stage Mainz from 2011 to 2013. After completing his studies, he became a permanent member of the ensemble at the Baden State Theatre in Karlsruhe, where, between 2018 and 2021, he appeared in productions including »Nora Hedda und ihre Schwestern« and »Die Neuen Todsünden«, directed by Anna Bergmann. He also played the roles of Orestes and Achilles in the production »Iphigenie«, directed by Lilija Rupprecht, and the lead role in the play »Iphigenie«. Until the summer of 2024, he could still often be seen at the Baden State Theatre as a guest in the two-person play »How to date a Feminist«, which had its German-language premiere in Karlsruhe, became a hit with audiences and was performed there over 50 times.  

In addition, Tom Gramenz appeared in numerous TV films and series before and during his studies. In 2018, he took on a leading role in the highly acclaimed feature film »Das schweigende Klassenzimmer«, directed by Lars Kraume, which brought him to the attention of audiences across Germany. Tom Gramenz currently works as a freelance actor based in Berlin and has also resumed his work in film and television. He was most recently seen in »Soko Potsdam«, »Bergdoktor« and »Eine Billionen Dollar«. He has also been working for the Lausitz Festival for the past two years, taking on the role of Cassio in »Othello/Die Fremden«, directed by Marcel Kohler. 

Theatre directors such as Alexander Lang, Amélie Niermeyer, Herbert Fritsch, Jürgen Gosch, Karin Beier, Peter Stein, Philipp Stölzl and Thomas Langhoff recognised early on his nuanced, masculine and sensitive portrayal of characters’ traits – through which he imbues them with a credible life of their own – and have repeatedly cast the actor in their productions. In film, he has won over audiences and critics alike in collaborations with Ben Verbong, Christian Schwochow, Edward Berger, Francis Meletzky, Isabell Kleefeld, Matti Geschonneck, Robert Schwentke, Till Franzen and Lars Kraume, with whom he has made many award-winning films over the years, such as »Das schweigende Klassenzimmer«, »Der Staat gegen Fritz Bauer« and »Gott nach Ferdinand von Schirach« .

Schubert performs at leading German-speaking theatres, including the Berlin Ensemble, the German Theatre Berlin, the Maxim Gorki Theatre, the Residenz Theatre in Munich and the Theatre Hamburg, and has appeared in numerous high-calibre film and television productions since the start of his career, including »Der Turm«, »Meine Tochter Anne Frank», »Tage, die bleiben« and »Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter«, as well as in popular TV series such as »Die verlorene Tochter«, »KDD« and »Wolfsland«. He was voted Actor of the Year by the magazine »Theater heute«, has been honoured on several occasions with the German Television Award and the Grimme Prize, and was awarded the Audience Bambi for his acting performance. Götz Schubert is an ambassador for the German Palliative and Hospice Foundation and lives near Berlin. 

He was responsible for the production design of the multi-award-winning short film »Gute Nacht« (directed by Henning Backhaus). He also designed music videos for Pizzera and Jaus and Ankathie Koi, directed by Dominik Hartl, Bernie Shizzle, Gersin Livia Paya, Benedikt Missmann and Fabian Schmidmair. As co-set designer to Anna Viebrock, under the direction of Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito and Christoph Marthaler, he has worked at the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the National Theatre in Mannheim, the German Opera in Berlin and the Salzburg Easter Festival. Köpf has created his own sets for productions by Marcel Kohler at the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Theater Heidelberg, the Lausitz Festival (»Othello/Die Fremden«) and the Dresden State Theatre, among others. 

As a freelance lighting and set designer, Henning Streck works for, amongst others: Salzburg Festival, Sydney Festival, Ruhrtriennale,  Vienna Festival, House of Berlin Festivals,  German State Opera Berlin,  Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin, German Theatre Berlin, Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, State Opera in Hanover, Theatre in Frankfurt am Main, Opéra National de Lyon, La Monnaie / De Munt Opera in Brussels, Zurich Opera, Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin, Schaubühne Berlin, Munich Kammerspiele, Perm Opera, Festival Theatre in Baden-Baden, Theatre Basel, Theatre Karlsruhe, Stuttgart State Opera, Wiesbaden Opera, Maxim Gorki Theatre, and Ballhaus Ost. 

Particularly noteworthy are his collaborations with Dimiter Gottscheff, Katrin Brack, Michael Thalheimer, Olaf Altmann, Christoph Marthaler, Anna Viebrock, Bert Neumann, Frank Castorf, René Pollesch, Jürgen Gosch, Johannes Schütz, Christian Petzold, Christoph Schlingensief, David Marton, Christian Friedländer, Pola Kardum, Tabea Braun, Barrie Kosky, Nina von Mechow, Jan Essinger, Sonja Füsti, Milan Peschel, Nicole Timm, Ofira Henig, Magdalena Musial, Anna Bergmann, Marco Stormann, Jo Schramm, Ersan Mondtag, and the music theatre collective »Hauen und Stechen«.