Sunday, 8/31/2025
at 6:00 PM



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(K)no fairy tale for adults after Engelbert Humperdinck

In the House Waldfrieden, everything has its regulated daily routine. The staff works with all their might to provide the residents with a pleasant and dignified evening of life. Hans has been living there for a while and is a little bit detached from the world. Then Grete moves into the neighboring room. While baking gingerbread, the two come closer and find in each other their “soulmate.” And suddenly, the world around them is a little less gray.

Hans and Grete experience emotional highs and lows, great joy, and great fear. But: Are their experiences even real? Or have Hans and Grete already become detached from their own world? As both begin to forget and reality slips further away from them, they drift together into a fairytale fantasy world.

“Getting old is not for cowards,” says a well-known book title. And yet it is part of our life that we must confront aging and death. Just as children need our care, elderly people eventually fall into a state of vulnerability. The young care for the old and become painfully aware of their own mortality.

The production by Inken Rahardt (“La Traviata,” “Tosca,” “Semiramis”) evokes a unique poetry from Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera. Just as the children Hansel and Gretel get lost in the woods, so do the elderly Hans and Grete lose themselves to the world. The emotionally beautiful music by Engelbert Humperdinck transforms the story into a dreamlike fairytale for adults.

Warning: Due to extreme lighting effects, we advise individuals with epilepsy against this production!

Entry starts 90 minutes before the performance begins

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