The end-of-semester projects address the socio-political and aesthetic urgencies of our present day. In multimedia-based spatial installations, they open up possibilities for exploring contemporary issues through artistic means. The program pursues an expanded understanding of stage design that combines artistic practice, theoretical reflection, and transdisciplinary spatial concepts. The presentations will be on February 13 and 14, 2026, between 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. each day. Performances–program (theater hall) Friday 13.02. Opening at 17:00 Die Schwere Start: 17:30 Duration: ~30 minutes Details: performance Artist: Martin Gonschorek Frustschein Start: 17:00 Duration: durational Details: performance Artists: Ding Dong Il primo dolore della Madonna Start: 18:00 Duration: durational Details: performance Artists: Madriana Dolorosa & Mariano Sukopp EIOLON Start: 19:00 Duration: ~15 minutes Details: video installation and performance Artists: Eduardo Soto & Corazón Nearly visible, Rarely touchable Start: 20:00 Duration: ~40 minutes Details: performance artists: Concept, Direction, Stage/Yaoer Zeng, Performance/ Yumo Cheng, Kkotshin Im, Sounds/Cavid Dhen,Stylist/Nancy Li,Live Visuals/Yiyao Wei Il primo dolore della Madonna Start: 21:00 Duration: durational Details: performance Artists: Madriana Dolorosa & Mariano Sukopp EIOLON Start: 21:30 Duration: ~15 minutes Details: video installation and performance Artists: Eduardo Soto & Corazón Saturday 14.02. Frustschein Start: 16:00 Duration: durational Details: Performance Artists: Ding Dong Il primo dolore della Madonna Start: 16:00 Duration: durational Details: Performance Artists: Madriana Dolorosa & Mariano Sukopp Die Schwere Start: 17:00 Duration: ~30 minutes Details: Performance Artist: Martin Gonschorek EIOLON Start: 17:30 Duration: ~15 minutes Details: video installation and performance Artists: Eduardo Soto & Corazón CHROTOPTERUS Start: 18:00 Duration: ~70 minutes Details: performance Artists: Text/Diablo con Vestido, Directing/Diablo con Vestido, Dramaturgy/Jeannot Kampf, Satge-Costumes/Diablo con Vestido, Performance: Constanza Pérez de Lara Bonatti, Carlo Felice Audrines, Diablo con Vestido, Francho Zafarrancho, Musicians/Patricio Tamés Alanís, Leonardo Ochoa Dicaprio, Visuals/Denzel Arthur No Other Start: 19:15 Duration: ~4 minutes in loop Details: music video Artists: Song/Seele, Helpers/Cal Ola, Mauricio Palomino Baez d’Oliveira Soares, Aybüke Kara, Timo Marpert, Rebecca Bekowies, Debora Meyer +19:15-20:00: concert Performers/ Seele, Mauricio Palomino Baez d’Oliveira Soares Nearly visible, Rarely touchable Start: 20:15 Duration: ~40 minutes Details: performance Artists: Concept, Direction, Stage/Yaoer Zeng, Performance/ Yumo Cheng, Kkotshin Im, Sounds/Cavid Dhen,Stylist/Nancy Li,Live Visuals/Yiyao Wei Erinnerst du dich? Start: 21:00 Duration: ~30 minutes Details: installation and live concert Artists: Installation/Joe Landt, Drawings: Jelle Landt, Live Concert: Lila-Zoé Krauß Party 22:00-01:00

New Year, New Breakdown The search for one’s identity and a sense of belonging is far more complex than this one-and-a-half-hour piece about a Catalan actress pursuing her dream in Berlin (a very unique story, we know). In »Mummy, Daddy & Other Issues«, this attempt is condensed into just 80 minutes – admittedly with uncertain success, but at least with plenty of humor. In this autofictional theatre piece, we encounter @thereal_nuriafrias, oscillating between self-irony and the longing to finally arrive. She talks about her parents, ex-partners, cultural misunderstandings, and one crucial realization: anyone who doesn’t have issues with their mother will get them sooner or later with German bureaucracy.»Mummy, Daddy & Other Issues« is a satirical and personal comedy about growing up between cultures, expectations and one’s own inner monsters. And about why home sometimes feels like a safe place and sometimes like a cold citizen’s registration office. An evening about chaos, belonging and the question: Do we actually have to have everything under control all the time? Núria is an actress, theatre maker and designer from Barcelona who has been living in Berlin since 2018. Through text, physical theatre, audiovisual language and with a lot of humor, her work explores the intimate space between people and the absurdities of everyday life. CALa recerca de la identitat pròpia i pertinença és molt més complexa que aquesta obra d’una hora i mitja sobre una actriu catalana que persegueix el seu somni a Berlín (una història molt original, we know). A »Mummy, Daddy & Other Issues«, aquest intent es fa en només 80 minuts, amb un èxit incert, és cert, però almenys amb molt d’humor. En aquesta obra d’autoficció, coneixem la @thereal_nuriafrias, que oscil·la entre l’autoironia i el desig d’arribar finalment a un lloc on deixar-se caure. Parla dels seus pares, exparelles, malentesos culturals i de la presa de consciència que, si no tens Issues amb la teva mare, els tindràs amb la burocràcia alemanya, més tard.»Mummy, Daddy & Other Issues« és una comèdia satírica i personal sobre créixer entre cultures, expectatives i els propis dimonis interiors. I sobre per què la llar a vegades se sent com un lloc segur i d’altres com una freda oficina de registre municipal. Una vetllada sobre el caos, la pertinença i la pregunta: Realment ho hem de tenir tot sota control tot el temps?

What’s the connection between a monkey mask, a musical saw and skating? What do Audre Lorde and John Cage have in common? Who is relatively young, has a big heart, and bones like a bird? And how do you organise your books? Not by size, do you? This is Carlos Franke’s very personal attempt to organise not just books, but life itself. Carlos Franke creates performances and performs on the musical saw, designs light, sound and special effects, invents, writes and practices, represents and is present. Having abandoned his studies in physics, philosophy and musicology, his current focus is on human and non-human interactions in theatre, dance and elsewhere. He lives in Gießen and is about to graduate in Applied Theatre Studies with the performance “One-one-solo”. According to doctors, he is “relatively young” (2021) and has a big heart.

I see myself from above: I am lying on a sofa and wearing a lazybones. It is cozy, warm, and has beautiful patterns in blue, green, and white. I want to touch it with my hand, but the little mushroom heads escape me. I lie on the sofa and wait… wait until I become something. But I can’t open the window because the mold needs a certain level of humidity to grow. And so I lie there and wait until I become something—maybe penicillin, salami, or camembert. The performance deals with the history of laziness—a moral concept that only becomes visible in relation to work. You are not lazy when you do something, but when you don’t do something.In her solo performance, artist Arnita Jaunsubrēna explores her own productivity, which has declined due to chronic illness. In the spirit of lecture performance, she confronts shame and social expectations. She tells personal stories and examines workaholics in her own family, talks about mold and compost, and examines the state’s compulsion to work. In the end, she finds refuge in the tranquility of sloths.Where do we find room for mistakes, breaks, and change in Western work culture? almost good (LV/DE) is Arnita Jaunsubrēna’s solo collective. The artist lives in Berlin, studied in independent Latvia, and grew up in Latvia in the 1980s, when it was part of the Soviet Union. Arni has been living in Berlin since 2015, and almost good was founded in early 2023 as an attempt to understand art as a process in which perfection is not the top priority. With almost good, Arnita Jaunsubrēna wants to encourage herself not to give up art as a profession just because she is chronically ill and has to find new ways of working to cope with her illness and the resulting disabilities.

The director enters and announces loudly, “I had a two-hour meeting this morning! Very successful. Structures! Structures and people!” He has not understood anything. Based on the performer’s own experiences as an assistant director, the lecture performance addresses the workings of power and hierarchy in the theater. With the help of diary entries and voice messages, the performer recalls her time at the Berliner Ensemble. The individual story points to something bigger, to a system: Why do certain authoritarian practices and dynamics seem to be completely accepted in the theater world? Why are issues of emancipation and pluralism negotiated on the stages of this country, while the production process often looks very different? Hannah Helbig interned at Oliver Reese’s »Der Theatermacher« and since then has been unsure whether it is empowering or problematic to describe herself as a theater maker. She studied applied theater studies and philosophy in Giessen and understands theater as a means of criticism—and fun. With »Strukturen und Menschen – Tagebuch einer Hospitantin 2.0« (Structures and People – Diary of an Intern 2.0), she won the audience award at Körber Studio 2024.

The video performance portrays three mining areas used for tourism: the Hambach open-cast mine, the Dead Sea, and the Lusatian lignite mining area. Through travelogues and a repertoire of movements inspired by them, Marlene Helling recounts her encounters with these places. It becomes clear how nature is commodified both as a raw material and in the form of tourism. A 3-channel panoramic projection, which brings post-industrial landscapes in the Anthropocene to life, highlights parallels between the mining areas and how we view nature and make it our own. The vast landscape images engage in dialogue with a body that attempts to encounter the ground with immediate mindfulness. In her dance and video performances, Marlene Helling addresses social, ecological, and feminist issues as well as site-specific circumstances. Her work is based on research conducted with her artistic team—visual artist Marei Dierßen, video artist Simon Vorgrimmler, and sound artist Juli Grönefeld.

Masc4Masks is a fully-masked and masc-ed strip show from your favourite Dyke* dancers! Tests and masks are compulsory to attend. There will be both available on site if necessary. Everyone should be able to enjoy the butch, stud and masc joy of MD* including our immunocompromised queer cuties – this one is for you! Remember all kinds of safety is sexy 🫦 Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for lesbians, queer women, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren’t. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin. A safe door policy that doesn’t judge based on appearance, queer SWer-led SLINTA*-only darkroom, sex-positive atmosphere and effort to make it as inclusive an environment as they can. Through them, people get to see butches, studs and other sapphics with masc expression being seen as sexy, creating a sense of euphoria in all those who identify with or are attracted to butchness.

Hue & Heat, is a night for SLINTA* BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) audience and performers only. This is an evening where queer sensual racialized bodies are centered and witnessed by one another outside of the normative white western gaze. Come ready to feel sexy, celebrate lived experiences and indulge in collective desire ❤️‍🔥 Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for lesbians, queer women, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren’t. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin. A safe door policy that doesn’t judge based on appearance, queer SWer-led SLINTA*-only darkroom, sex-positive atmosphere and effort to make it as inclusive an environment as they can. Through them, people get to see butches, studs and other sapphics with masc expression being seen as sexy, creating a sense of euphoria in all those who identify with or are attracted to butchness.

Magic Dyke* presents Gripless Glory with their own take on Oil Wrestling. This night centers all of the SLINTA* community to see our performers face off, lathered and lithe. Not only strip and dance, but also backstories, beef and bronze. Who will be crowned winner at the end of the night? Only one way to find out 🏆 Magic Dyke* is a masc Dyke* stripping group based in Berlin by and for lesbians, queer women, non-binary, trans, intersex and agender people showing masc stripping from non-cis masculinities and give butches, studs, bois, mascs and genderfuckers a stage to feel sexy in a world that tells them they aren’t. Since May 2022, Magic Dyke* creates sensational shows and provides a party that is a safe space for the SLINTA* (sapphic, lesbian, intersex, non-binary, transgender, agender) community in Berlin. A safe door policy that doesn’t judge based on appearance, queer SWer-led SLINTA*-only darkroom, sex-positive atmosphere and effort to make it as inclusive an environment as they can. Through them, people get to see butches, studs and other sapphics with masc expression being seen as sexy, creating a sense of euphoria in all those who identify with or are attracted to butchness.

Launching in Spring 2026, YETZE Casino Nights is a limited series of live concerts hosted at Ballhaus Ost in Prenzlauer Berg. Dealing the cards for YCN #1 on the very first day of Spring, CPH’s A Good Year (Escho) will be the new series’ first-ever musical guests – taking over the former ballroom stage. Copenhagen-based A Good Year, a duo comprising Albert Hildebrand & Tobias Laust, has been busy reshaping the edges of Denmark’s buzzing alternative scene with their unique blend of cinematic textures and understated pop. Moving effortlessly between ambient pop textures, cinematic electronica, and beyond, it’s magical songcraft that hits hard both visually and melodically – with resonating wooden guitars dwelling alongside soft queen voices, paced by rimshots and hi-hats. Having followed their breakout collaboration »YSL« (w/ Horse Vision) with singles such as »Dealerz« (w/ Quiet Light) and more recent »Push & Pull«, they’ll bring a special musical guest (Late Verlane!) and some extra tasty visuals to the first installation of YETZE Casino Nights… Doors: 19:00 A Good Year on YouTube >> YETZE Casino Night #2: Blurry Records Label Night | Maresz presents »TASTE« | ronja (Roomer) | RIP Swirl (DJ) | 16.4.