Three comedians will act out their version of the common premise: tragedy + time = comedy! All of it is inspired by the 2025 season of the reality show called WORLD, which we currently suffer through. Their jokes will be a reckoning with personal and political topics! Same premise – different outcome! Jokehaus Ost is part of The Late Night Shows: on the Side-Quest-Stage, following performances on the main stage, five short, performative, musical, and humorous formats invite audiences to stay a bit longer. To see artists who usually perform in all kinds of settings — from your landlord’s cellar to the rooftops of Gotham.Coming up next: »Questhaus Ost: BroKolya und guests« on 20.12.

The Initiative Solidarität am Theater e.V. (ISaT) invites you to a two-day gathering on intersectional queer-feminist archival practices. Based on the history of marginalized groups’ movements, we want to decentralize dominant narratives in the cultural sector and work together to develop and maintain »archives of resistance« that prioritize marginalized knowledge. We ask ourselves how an archive can become (more) accessible and what gaps and conflicts have led to some struggles being barely remembered. On December 12 and 13, we are bringing the archive to the theater space of Ballhaus Ost and inviting colleagues and audiences to engage in artistic interaction and encounter with the unfinished archive. The Initiative for Solidarity in Theater (ISaT) was founded in 2017 out of the need to counteract ongoing inequality and discrimination in the cultural sector. It is a decentralized network that aims to act from a perspective critical of power structures. PROGRAMFRIDAY 12/1217:00: Welcome18:30–19:15: »BIOFUCK«, performance, LIFT Performance Collective20:00–20:30: »Hungerstein«, lecture performance, Aidan Riebensahm & Lea Steinhilber21:30–22:30: Agnieszka Habraschka / Eszka, concert22:30–23:00: Soft ending SATURDAY 13/1214:00: Welcome13:15–16:00: »Die Möllner Briefe« (96′), film screening16:00–17:00: »FemmeFitness«, lecture performance & feminist fitness session19:00–20:00: »böse blicke_n«, lecture performance, Nuray Demir20:30–21:30: »Darf man etwa nicht so egozentrisch sein und seine Erfahrungen für sich behalten? Diasporisches Erinnern an Fasia Jansen«, performative reading »Brief an Fasia« followed by a film screening, Ali*ne B*enecke21:30–22:30: Exchange and a joint closing22:30–23:00: Soft ending Click here for the website and audio flyer for Archives of Resistance

The sober party series Lemonade Queers has come to an end (for now) – unfortunately, the series did not receive funding for next year. But we are not getting sad. Instead, we are throwing a big GOOD BYE (for now) Party. We want to thank everyone who came and supported us: all our guests, all the artists, all the media, CSD Berlin, SchwuZ, and Ballhaus Ost. We are truly grateful and amazed by what we have been able to create in the last two and a half years. Lemonade Queers is the only regular sober party for queers in Berlin. Living sober is not easy, especially in a city like Berlin. This is why founders Vlady and Momo have decided to celebrate sobriety and invite all sober queers, sober curious people, and allies to join us for a fantastic evening. They offer a Connection Space, including fun and engaging connection games and questions. Two beanbags will be available for people who struggle sitting on chairs or benches. A special Party Host. A special Warm Up. And a big Party. With great DJs and amazing alcohol-free drinks. There will be no alcohol served or visible. So grab all your friends, and queers, let’s cheers with lemonade. 18:00 Doors18:30–19:30 Connections19:30–20:00 Warm Up20:00–00:00 Party

Before four Drag Royals play the classic pen-and-paper role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons at Questhaus Ost, there will be an opportunity to embark on your own adventure at the open game night: whether you are a curious beginner or an experienced role player, alone or in a group – everyone is welcome. There will be a short introduction to how pen-and-paper games work at the beginning, then the games that have been brought along will be presented and a group will be formed for each game. Feel free to drop by spontaneously or register in advance (info@ballhausost.de), especially if you want to bring a game and lead it. Games can be played in German and English. Drinks and snacks will be available on site. Admission is free. 16:30 Introduction17:00 Game presentations and group formationuntil 21:00 play session, after which the bar will be open for Questhaus Ost What is Pen&Paper?In most role-playing games, a game master guides the game: they describe scenes, describe locations, play all non-player characters, and decide how the story unfolds. The game rules provide guidance for this.The players take on the roles of fictional characters and develop the plot. There are also role-playing games with a character sheet that provides information about skills and abilities or fun facts. Many decisions and game moments whose outcome is uncertain are determined by rolling dice. This is also specified in the respective rules. There are countless scenarios in pen and paper games. Whether as a vampire in 1920s London, a thief in the future, with magic, without magic. Anything is possible.The basic rules and game settings are laid down in the so-called rulebooks. How closely you adhere to these basic rules is a group decision. The rule here is: as long as everyone is having fun, anything goes.

Night falls over Berlin. Drag creatures gather at Ballhaus Ost to battle monsters of modern history with improv, queerness & love. Guided by game drag-king-master BroKolya, drag heroin*es Gonk the Griller and Raki Solale take on a wild Drags & Dragons quest to save the world. Questhaus Ost is part of The Late Night Shows: on the Side-Quest-Stage, following performances on the main stage, five short, performative, musical, and humorous formats invite audiences to stay a bit longer. To see artists who usually perform in all kinds of settings — from your landlord’s cellar to the rooftops of Gotham.

Audioflyer A line. 5 bodies. 4 wheels. 3 times 3 legs. 2 ears on each head. 1 made of glass, 1 tongue in each mouth. In a straight line: arm to arm, shoulder to wrist, pinkies entwined. The five white bodies in the line move in a way I can’t grasp. They shift weight, use momentum, push wheels, carry the line through space. Steady, one decides to pivot. The outer edges speed up. Fast, hustling, enjoying and hating the game, they hack space. Blank white canvases are moved, sound of friction across the floor. They get ready to be projected on. The need for gaps, to reach into ancient wisdom and contemporary desires, appears. Holding on to the kinship of these migrated, queer, crip bodies seems essential. Seemingly lost, seeking linearity, the five bodies realize there is more. They break open. I hear them fall apart, grieving-sobbing, raging-laughing, swallowing unknowns. Nurtured to reveal the new now, it becomes theirs. It becomes ours. I feel an urge to explore. You too? Welcome to BIOFUCK! A testimony to non-linear biographies. LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart) is a constellation of crip, queer and migrant bodies driven by a shared commitment to creating new encounters and narrative spaces that center Aesthetics of Access.

A gathering on stage to repeat a prediction that already came true yesterday. The bedfolds will speak to us and tell us about needs we probably don’t know of yet. Connections arise alongside the fact that we do not have to walk, run or even get up. That we are protected, without tensing our muscles, without knowing many people, without money, insurance or a passport. An Invitation for a reading, a performance, a gathering that captures how we archive, create and listen to our folds in various presences in order to search our needs and be ready. »we prepared ourselves not to be found« works with experiences and material from one-to-one bedfold readings where Jeanne Eschert mixes magic, rituals, palm reading, and experiences in bed. Together with the participants, they find out the physicality and temporality in the bed sheet imprints. If you are interested in a bedfold reading via home visit, videocall or chat, write to bedfoldreadings@gmail.com. It is aimed at people who spend a lot of time in bed and have built up a special relationship with it – people with chronic or mental illness, disabilities or the people around them. Jeanne Eschert creates texts, performances, magic, choreographies, fine arts, and ongoing gatherings in various theaters and venues. She works in a magic shop, grew up with circus in Cologne and studied applied theater studies in Giessen. Her artistic work relates to magic tricks, chronic illness, bedriddenness, and transness.

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.