Everything is spinning. The boards beneath the performers’ feet, the audience orbiting the grand spectacle, the theatre circling itself. Or is this simply a dance film in the making? On 04. and 05.03.2026, “Die Gewehre der Frau Kathrin Angerer” by René Pollesch returns once more to the Volksbühne stage, a co-production with the Wiener Festwochen. And perhaps that is precisely why it feels so right to begin at rock bottom. There is no slow ascent toward a grand, tragic finale. Instead, the opening drops its characters, and us, first and foremost, straight into the fractures and minor catastrophes of their lives. Old love, failed plans, moments that are at once comic, sharp, and broken. And then the stage revolves. Literally. The award-winning set design by Nina von Mechow features a monumental reproduction of Monolith by Alekos Hofstetter, becoming the backdrop for a glorious tangle of references: Hollywood clichés, the Spanish Civil War, Bertolt Brecht himself, and choreographed fistfights. The desire intensifies to figure out what is real and what is performed, and what remains when theatre revolves around itself. On stage: Kathrin Angerer, Benny Claessens, Josefin Fischer, Lilith Krause, Rosa Lembeck, Marie Rosa Tietjen, and Martin Wuttke, joined by a seven-member dance chorus from the youth company of the motion*s Tanz- und Bewegungsstudio. If you’d like to plunge once more into this heady mix of movement, text, comedy, and gravity, you have two more evenings to do so.
Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: Luna Zscharnt
Volksbühne, Linienstr.227, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
Die Gewehre der Frau Kathrin Angerer 04.03.2026 20h and 05.03.2026 19h30. Get tickets here.
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