The Romantic era was a particularly brilliant period for portrait miniatures, reaching its peak and at the same time signaling the end of this special painting technique. Countless artists created portraits with great empathy and astonishing technical perfection. More people than ever collected small portraits of their loved ones to carry with them or to gather at home as a pictorial family album. 142 masterpieces from the renowned Tansey collection illuminate the heyday of an art that had to make way for photography during the 19th century.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog that, in addition to the annotated reproduction of all works, is distinguished by essays by various experts on aspects of miniature painting during this time. Hirmer Verlag, bilingual German/English, 432 pages, 208 color illustrations.

Tue - Sun 11am-5pm

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

They were stars of the Weimar Republic, celebrated from Berlin to New York: Die Comedian Harmonists – six men, a piano, and a sound. With wit, charm, and perfect harmony singing, they conquered the stages and hearts – until the Nazis banned their collective singing. The incredible story of these exceptional artists is told: from their meteoric rise to the division during times of political radicalization to the abrupt end – a story about friendship, loyalty, vanity, and the price of success. In this stage adaptation, not only the legendary performances are in the spotlight, but also the breaks behind them: the tensions within the ensemble, the question of stance, and the strain when the political suddenly becomes personal. The play is more than a look back: it is a live experience. Actors who sing, singers who act – from the first rehearsal day to the last performance. Classics like “Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus” or “Veronika, der Lenz ist da” resonate in captivating arrangements and become the soundtrack of an era whose lightness was deceptive. A musical masterpiece about the courage to stick together – and the power of art, to not fall silent even in dark times. Humorous. Touching. Highly musical. The first boy band in the world – back on the stage of the Schlosstheater.

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The Romantic era was a particularly brilliant period for portrait miniatures, reaching its peak and at the same time signaling the end of this special painting technique. Countless artists created portraits with great empathy and astonishing technical perfection. More people than ever collected small portraits of their loved ones to carry with them or to gather at home as a pictorial family album. 142 masterpieces from the renowned Tansey collection illuminate the heyday of an art that had to make way for photography during the 19th century.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog that, in addition to the annotated reproduction of all works, is distinguished by essays by various experts on aspects of miniature painting during this time. Hirmer Verlag, bilingual German/English, 432 pages, 208 color illustrations.

Tue - Sun 11am-5pm

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

Above or below: that is a question of perspective.
For the playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
not least a question of class perspective. In his
folk play HERR PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT
MATTI, he rather willfully tips the power relations.
As dramatic fuel, he uses alcohol, which he administers
to his hero in a consciousness-damaging concentration.
This Puntila needs much of everything: besides plenty
of liquids, also many cows, many brides, many workers,
many lands. And all must be at his service.
He bullies the chauffeur Matti according to all the
rules of the art. He pairs his daughter Eva with an influential
diplomat – only to send the "well-dressed locust"
out the door at the last minute, filled with punch.
Unions are a red rag to him; he prefers to bring
temporary workers into the house. And he bends the law
in such a way that it doesn’t get in his way. Not a
word has been spoken in this play, and the judge is
already drunk under the table. With his staff, Puntila
drinks himself into an ever-new humanity. Hoping that in the end,
there will be no gap anymore between black and red,
rich and poor, big and small. Yet the intoxication of equality
vanishes as quickly as it was created. The capitalist logic
reveals itself all the more powerfully the morning after.
The friendship between master and servant, as the 1940
play created in exile shows, is only possible in a state
of artificial consciousness impairment.

The Romantic era was a particularly brilliant period for portrait miniatures, reaching its peak and at the same time signaling the end of this special painting technique. Countless artists created portraits with great empathy and astonishing technical perfection. More people than ever collected small portraits of their loved ones to carry with them or to gather at home as a pictorial family album. 142 masterpieces from the renowned Tansey collection illuminate the heyday of an art that had to make way for photography during the 19th century.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog that, in addition to the annotated reproduction of all works, is distinguished by essays by various experts on aspects of miniature painting during this time. Hirmer Verlag, bilingual German/English, 432 pages, 208 color illustrations.

Tue - Sun 11am-5pm

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

At the events in the CD-Kaserne, a diverse selection of drinks as well as snacks (pretzels, peanuts, etc.) is available to you.

Admission is from 6 PM, evening box office price: 5 € (if tickets are still available)

The CD-Kaserne gGmbH is supported by Sparkasse Celle-Gifhorn-Wolfsburg.

Admission from 6 PM

Above or below: that is a question of perspective.
For the playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
not least a question of class perspective. In his
folk play HERR PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT
MATTI, he rather willfully tips the power relations.
As dramatic fuel, he uses alcohol, which he administers
to his hero in a consciousness-damaging concentration.
This Puntila needs much of everything: besides plenty
of liquids, also many cows, many brides, many workers,
many lands. And all must be at his service.
He bullies the chauffeur Matti according to all the
rules of the art. He pairs his daughter Eva with an influential
diplomat – only to send the "well-dressed locust"
out the door at the last minute, filled with punch.
Unions are a red rag to him; he prefers to bring
temporary workers into the house. And he bends the law
in such a way that it doesn’t get in his way. Not a
word has been spoken in this play, and the judge is
already drunk under the table. With his staff, Puntila
drinks himself into an ever-new humanity. Hoping that in the end,
there will be no gap anymore between black and red,
rich and poor, big and small. Yet the intoxication of equality
vanishes as quickly as it was created. The capitalist logic
reveals itself all the more powerfully the morning after.
The friendship between master and servant, as the 1940
play created in exile shows, is only possible in a state
of artificial consciousness impairment.

Adam, a reserved English literature student, works as a supervisor in a museum, where he wants to prevent the art student Evelyn from spray painting a penis on the plaster cast fig leaf of a naked male statue. For Evelyn, it's a protest against censorship, for Adam simply a violation of rules. Adam bravely fulfills his duties, asking the beautiful visitor to step back behind the barricade. During this, the two get into a conversation, and Adam is surprised when he asks Evelyn for her phone number. This encounter leads to a relationship: they meet regularly and become a couple. Adam, who has little experience with women, admires Evelyn greatly. For the self-confident "Eve," it is so easy to transform the awkward-shy Adam into a hotly desired "Loverboy." She replaces his glasses with contact lenses, changes his haircut, his clothes, sends him to the gym, and completely overhauls his life down to the most intimate details. Amused, his two best friends, Jenny and Philip, who are themselves planning to marry soon, observe Adam's metamorphosis. They are still unaware that they too will soon become partners in a fateful affair. – Neil LaBute's DAS MAß DER DINGE, premiered in London in 2001, is a satirical relationship play that examines how far people are willing to go to realize their visions.

The Romantic era was a particularly brilliant period for portrait miniatures, reaching its peak and at the same time signaling the end of this special painting technique. Countless artists created portraits with great empathy and astonishing technical perfection. More people than ever collected small portraits of their loved ones to carry with them or to gather at home as a pictorial family album. 142 masterpieces from the renowned Tansey collection illuminate the heyday of an art that had to make way for photography during the 19th century.

Accompanying the exhibition is a catalog that, in addition to the annotated reproduction of all works, is distinguished by essays by various experts on aspects of miniature painting during this time. Hirmer Verlag, bilingual German/English, 432 pages, 208 color illustrations.

Tue - Sun 11am-5pm

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.

During a castle tour, guests receive interesting insights into the baroque court life as well as the customs and traditions at the court. Above all, a tour offers the opportunity to take a look at the unique castle chapel, the castle kitchen, and the historical castle theater (provided the rehearsal situation allows it).

Please report to the ticket office at the castle 10 minutes before the start and pick up the original ticket.