City tour with a twist: During your smartphone-guided scavenger hunt, you'll puzzle over a few riddles along the way. And after solving each question or task, you'll receive interesting information about the corresponding safari station.

By the way: During your tour, you should aim to hunt down as many safari points as possible. So, every shot counts! Um... we meant, of course: Every answer counts!

Your route will take you to various safari stations. Along the way, you'll discover not only historical sites but also sights and hotspots off the beaten tourist paths. The Safari team has made sure that you'll encounter a few surprises along the way!

Find out in a fun and amusing way new and astonishing things about your city. Here, you'll get exciting insights beyond the classic sightseeing tours and learn interesting facts about your Safari-City on the side.

By the way: The Safari is available 24/7, all year round and lasts approximately 90 minutes.

TUNNEL IN SICHT
Laughter when it's time to cry

A cabaret piece by Wolfgang Schaller

At a train platform, the unemployed pig's ear seller Dörte, who wants to become a superstar (Birgit Schaller), the aspiring doctor Walentin Karl, who always knows everything (Hannes Sell), and the Saxon Fridolin Kasper, whose company Coffins & Co always does well when things go badly for others (Frank Weiland), are waiting. Amidst all crises, their motto is: Laugh when it's time to cry. Wolfgang Schaller's darkly biting, quirky texts reflect an absurd reality between pure cheerfulness and quiet contemplation. Jens Wagner and Volker Fiebig, as always, showcase the musicality of the ensemble. The DNN wrote after the celebrated premiere: "Laughter keeps you alert, and polished wit activates the brain. Those who allow themselves to laugh sometimes find it stuck in their throats. The rebellious normal trio serves up fast-paced, socially critical thigh-slappers, and then turns with bitter mockery at the large gears of our civilization, which have long run aground."

Can feminism be reconciled with raising sons? “An important book that we need right now. Because it is a key to opening doors.” Mithu Sanyal

Shila Behjat has learned her feminism through countless experiences, and she fights for a world where men are no longer the measure of all things. Now she is the mother of two sons – who challenge many role patterns in everyday life. Personally and profoundly moving, Behjat recounts through everyday situations how life with two growing boys has changed her feminist stance – and situates her experiences and thoughts within the debates of our time. In this way, she addresses long-neglected questions of equality that concern not only parents but society as a whole. A constructive, self-critical, and very moving debut that shows: It is time for a dialogue – with ourselves!

Entry: 19:00

Unfortunately, the event has been canceled and will not take place.

Classroom play by Thilo Schlüßler based on Goethe |
from 14 years old

Experiencing Goethe's work in an hour with an actor in a classroom? This seems unimaginable. This experiment is undertaken by Thilo Schlüßler, transforming the school subject into an exciting and entertaining production. A single actor rapidly narrates this monumental work about Doctor Heinrich Faust, who seeks to understand what holds the world together at its core. The adaptation allows him to slip into numerous roles in a multifaceted way, while seamlessly weaving in background knowledge. Engaged in the performance, the students suddenly become part of the presentation and unexpectedly gain understanding of the events in FAUST I.

Duration: 1 h 30 min

Ticket orders by phone at 03522-505555 or by email at bestellung@kulturzentrum-grossenhain.de

Supported by the Cultural Space Meißen - Saxon Switzerland - Ore Mountains

Remaining tickets may still be available at the box office.

Classroom play by Thilo Schlüßler based on Goethe |
from 14 years old

Experiencing Goethe's work in an hour with an actor in a classroom? This seems unimaginable. This experiment is undertaken by Thilo Schlüßler, transforming the school subject into an exciting and entertaining production. A single actor rapidly narrates this monumental work about Doctor Heinrich Faust, who seeks to understand what holds the world together at its core. The adaptation allows him to slip into numerous roles in a multifaceted way, while seamlessly weaving in background knowledge. Engaged in the performance, the students suddenly become part of the presentation and unexpectedly gain understanding of the events in FAUST I.

Duration: 1 h 30 min

Ticket orders by phone at 03522-505555 or by email at bestellung@kulturzentrum-grossenhain.de

Supported by the Cultural Space Meißen - Saxon Switzerland - Ore Mountains

Remaining tickets may still be available at the box office.

Sixty years ago, in October 1963, a spectacular TV appearance by the band The Beatles, founded in 1960, at the London Palladium led to mass hysteria.

A few months earlier, on March 22, 1963, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr released their first number one album "Please Please Me." With the single "I Want To Hold Your Hand," launched in November of the same year, their international success began.

The new musical virus, called "Beatlemania," infected musicians all over the world – even in the GDR. Across the country, guitar and beat bands were founded after the Liverpool model. The GDR record label AMIGA released three singles and a Beatles long-playing record in 1964/65.

However, when Walter Ulbricht, GDR State Council Chairman and SED party leader, railed in 1965 during his speech at the 11th Plenary of the SED Central Committee against the influences of decadent Western rock music on the young beat scene in the GDR and demanded, "… with the monotony of Je-Je-Je … one should put an end to it," it seemed to come to a sudden halt. But this only spurred the musicians on even more, as the Beatles had already become role models and mentors for many bands in the GDR. Thus, the influence of the Beatles on the East Rock landscape soon became indispensable. And the "official GDR" also developed quite a good relationship with them over the years.

How these developments took place is described by music expert Wolfgang Martin in the present volume, who has invited well-known artists and representatives of Beatles fan clubs, which also existed in the GDR, to share their experiences.

It becomes clear: For most musicians and especially the fans in the GDR, the Beatles had become immortal. And what began 60 years ago and revolutionized the world of popular music will remain important for further generations.

Wolfgang Martin, born in 1952 in Luckenwalde, worked as a radio editor and moderator at the station Voice of the GDR from 1976, as editorial director from 1982, and as head of the music editorial team of the youth radio DT64 from 1986.

In 1992 he moved to the newly founded East German Radio Brandenburg (today rbb) and has been the music chief at Antenne Brandenburg since May 2003 until his retirement. He published in numerous music magazines of the GDR, CSSR, and FRG and is the author of several music nonfiction books.

His latest publications with Bild und Heimat include: How Western Music Came into East Radio (2020) and You Don't Catch Paradise Birds. Homage to Tamara Danz (2021).

Manuel Schmid

was born in 1984 in Altenburg (Thuringia). From 1992 to 2009, he took piano lessons with Michael Scholler in the fields of rock, pop, and jazz. Between 2000 and 2002, he followed with drum lessons in the fields of rock and pop and from 2006 to 2009 vocal lessons in rock, pop, jazz, and classical music. Furthermore, Schmid obtained a diploma at the SAE Creative Media Institute in Leipzig in the field of audio engineering and has since been working as a producer and sound engineer.

Since 2000, the musician has also been performing solo with his own programs as a singer and keyboardist.

But not only as a soloist, but also as part of an established band, Schmid has gained his experiences over the years. Since 2012, he has been the singer of Germany's oldest art rock group Stern Meißen, where he has succeeded greats like Reinhard Fißler and Ralf Schmidt alias IC. He has significantly shaped the albums "Bilder einer Ausstellung" and "Freiheit ist" as a composer, lyricist, arranger, and producer.

Laterne

Yorick Thiede is a novelty on the German comedy stage, everything from his appearance to his stand-up performance revolves around contradictions. His demeanor seems rough, his thoughts sensitive, his delivery is dry, the stories are captivating, and somewhere in the pendulum between these facets is a young man who is easy to understand but hard to grasp.
Yorick has a natural ease in his storytelling. Every surreal story is made three-dimensional and tangible within seconds as if you were there yourself.
In his debut solo program "Tannenecker Ouvertüre," named after a forest in his hometown, everything that has made him one of the most interesting new talents over the past years comes to fruition. Stories about Thiede's upbringing on a farm in Schleswig-Holstein, his youth marked by petty crime in the provinces, and the conflicts between his resulting personality and present life are always interwoven with absurd additions and theories that give the nonsense a logical conclusion.

Doors open: 7:00 pm | Free seating

SIE MICH AUCH!
Best of Philipp Schaller

The new artistic director of Herkuleskeule, Philipp Schaller, has been one of the most performed cabaret authors in the country for many years. Not only the Keule, but also the Berliner Distel, Gisela Oechelhaeuser, Erik Lehmann, Michael Frowin, Ellen Schaller, and many other cabaret artists perform his bitterly humorous texts every evening. For the past seven years, Schaller himself has been on stage, gradually building a growing fan base.
He prefers to ask questions rather than annoying the audience with morality. He does not rant about those in power; he puts himself in the spotlight: ruthless and hilariously funny!
In his first Best-Of program, Philipp Schaller delivers his most important texts, timeless and contemporary, performed and read, from silly to deeply dark, sly to macabre – not always funny, but consistently comedic.
Philipp Schaller does not play characters; he finds his material within himself and thus becomes a mirror of our absurd yearnings, vanities, cowardices, and double standards. He consciously positions himself between all chairs, as for him, it is the most productive place to find compromises in a divided society. Irony is his means of transport between the ideological trenches of right and left, climate activists and climate deniers, gender stars and old white men. Only on the topic of peace or war is there no room between the chairs – a topic that has accompanied Schaller’s programs for many years.

The premiere of this program was postponed multiple times due to the corona pandemic and the associated theater closures. Therefore, Philipp Schaller has completely revised his program and is excited to finally showcase it.

Admission: 6 PM

City tour with a twist: During your smartphone-guided scavenger hunt, you'll puzzle over a few riddles along the way. And after solving each question or task, you'll receive interesting information about the corresponding safari station.

By the way: During your tour, you should aim to hunt down as many safari points as possible. So, every shot counts! Um... we meant, of course: Every answer counts!

Your route will take you to various safari stations. Along the way, you'll discover not only historical sites but also sights and hotspots off the beaten tourist paths. The Safari team has made sure that you'll encounter a few surprises along the way!

Find out in a fun and amusing way new and astonishing things about your city. Here, you'll get exciting insights beyond the classic sightseeing tours and learn interesting facts about your Safari-City on the side.

By the way: The Safari is available 24/7, all year round and lasts approximately 90 minutes.

This evening-long and diverse performance tests the limits of load-bearing – of the individual, our society, our living spaces. How much can we endure? How much can, should, or may we impose on ourselves and others? Following the fruitful collaboration of the Societaetstheater with the artist duo Peschken/Pisarsky in the projects WANDERBOJE (2021) and GLOBALPIX (2023), we now take another project of the versatile artist couple as an occasion to create a spectacle involving companies and artists from various art genres and guests from sports and science, which will take place throughout the entire theater house.

This special theater evening combines New Circus, dance, acting, sports, film, visual arts, and science. At the center of the evening are the load-bearing figures created by Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky, which evolve anew during the performances.

The circus company led by Emma Laule opens the evening in the theater hall with their show Permeable Bodies, in which granite stones interact with people and gravity meets weightlessness. There, the circus company KLUB GIRKO concludes the three-and-a-half-hour spectacle in a finale featuring countless bamboo poles.

Within this framework, the theater evening guides the audience through all the rooms of the Societaetstheater:

The weightlifting section of the sports club DSC 1898 invites you to training and competition in the sports studio.

Actor Thomas Stecher reads Ingo Schulze's text about the heavy load-bearing body in Berlin, this concrete monster that is the only existing relic from Hitler/Speer's architectural project for the world capital Germania.

Dr. Julia Schönborn from the World Ethos Institute Tübingen speaks very personally about the limits of load-bearing.

Art historian Marta Smolińska invites a discourse on atlases, caryatids, and load-bearing figures.

Biologist and lawyer Charlotte Streck is a co-founder and president of the climate consulting firm, the think tank Climate Focus, and teaches aspects of climate policy at the University of Potsdam – in a lively lecture she illustrates what happens when we reach and exceed tipping points in ecological systems, both regionally and globally.

There are speed datings, entertaining elevator rides, a Messi hell, conversations at the bar, exhibitions, dance performances, and a library of records …

Artistic direction: Anne Peschken, Marek Pisarsky, Kathleen Gaube, Heiki Ikkola | Circus performers: Alba De Miguel, Emma Laule, Josef Stiller, Moritz Grenz | Dance performers: Chiara Detscher, Jule Rottluff, Katja Erfurth, Seraphine Detscher | Acting/Performance: Hanno Wuckasch, Heiki Ikkola, Iris Pickhard, Kathleen Gaube, Thomas Stecher | Special guests: Charlotte Streck, Dr. Julia Schönborn, weightlifting section of DSC 1898, Marta Smolińska | Equipment collaboration: Wiete Sommer | Music: Benjamin Rottluff | Texts: Franziska Fuhlrott, Ingo Schulze, Jule Hanka, among others | Live camera: Eckart Reichl | Projections: Beate Oxenfart | Technology: Anton Ihlenfeldt, Bernd Krakowsky, Ole Büttner, Robby Hirche

Duration: approx. 210 minutes

On the evening of the performance, various individual formats, such as individual discussions with specialists and training with the weightlifters, can be booked at the entrance terminal. A common start is desirable, as the evening follows a larger dramaturgy; the latest entry is possible until 9:30 PM.

The celebrated trumpeter on the "No Excuse" release tour

For many years, JOO KRAUS has rightfully been counted among the most renowned jazz trumpeters in our regions. Although the trumpet was not placed directly in Joo's cradle, it was certainly placed next to his school notebook. His father played the trumpet and taught him the first notes. Catapulted into the scene at the age of 19 by winning the first prize at the national competition "Jugend musiziert," he gained five years of stage experience with the electro-rock band "Kraan." In the early 1990s, Joo co-founded the hip-jazz duo "Tab Two" with Hellmut Hattler. The rhythm section and effects already came from the computer – a rather groundbreaking innovation at the beginning of the 90s. "Tab Two" performed throughout Europe, Asia, and the USA, produced eight albums, and were one of the biggest influencers in this genre worldwide.
In the 2000s, Joo Kraus increasingly wrote his own songs. He produced his album "Sueño" in the oldest recording studio in Havana and arranged songs by Michael Jackson into an intellectually demanding tribute to the King of Pop.
Joo Kraus – that encompasses many decades of international stage and studio experience, countless worldwide tours, 2 Grammy nominations, the Echo Jazz as the best German trumpeter, and 6 German Jazz Awards in Gold.
That the trumpeter from Ulm has already made music history with "Tab Two" and gained a legendary reputation means little to him, just as his proverbial restlessness in such diverse fields as Krautrock, jazz, hip-hop, Latin, ambient, and singer/songwriter.
For his new album "No Excuse," there is only one question: What do I have to say today? After nearly forty years of traveling through almost all vegetation zones of music, Joo Kraus no longer needs explanations. The music may simply be what it is: one hundred percent Joo Kraus.
Stylistic breadth has always been closer to him than commitment to a specific genre. The unpredictable vibrancy on "No Excuse" ranges from cool jazz to hip-hop, from pop to singer/songwriter, from ambient to funk. And so he offers us on his new album nothing less than "everything."

Doors open: 7 PM

Scenes from Henri Murger's La vie de Bohème | Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica | Music by Giacomo Puccini | German text version by Bettina Bartz and Werner Hintze

Who doesn't know the most famous opera by Giacomo Puccini? Created in 1896 based on a drama by Henri Murger, it takes us into the enticing yet sobering world of the Parisian Bohemians. Instead of finding freedom and independence, the artist friends around the poet Rodolfo find mainly one thing: coldness. When the pretty neighbor Mimì enters their attic asking for a light, at least a little warmth seems to enter Rodolfo's life. However, it soon becomes clear: even this flame must pay its tribute to poverty...

In four spotlights and with his unmistakable emotional musical language, Puccini creates characters who have not lost any of their charm and wit to this day. As infectious as they may be in their youth and joy of life, they are equally moving in their sorrow. Matthias Reichwald narrates Puccini's masterpiece very close to these characters, their desires, and contradictions, and in German - so that one is not only moved when Mimì dies accompanied by enchanting orchestral music but also experiences the witty and self-ironic life of the Bohemians up close.

Olaf Böhme was one of the most popular Saxon cabaret artists. His character of the "Drunk Saxon" delighted countless spectators. His "tax return" and "de Muddi" are unforgettable.

But how did it all come about? Why does the "Saxon" wear a tie? How exactly did it go with Muddi? Does a cuckoo clock fit in a memory box, and what does Paul actually do?

The answers to such, still open, questions will be provided this evening by a fictitious companion of Olaf Böhme. Even though they were not very close, they met again and again over the years. Mostly on a bench in the greenery, overlooking Dresden, with Margon water and Mettwurstbemme.

The companion has a lot to tell: of misunderstandings, arguments, reconciliations, probabilities, puzzles, fishing, and lingerie. The fact that many fond stories will be rummaged out of the plastic bag and brought to the stage, gives hope that a chuckle or laughter will roll through the room here and there, to make this evening what it should be:

A loving tribute to Olaf Böhme - an enjoyable indulgence in memories and anecdotes; a remembrance, laughter, and bowing. ...you know?

Doors open at 7:30 pm.

"UNHEILIG is history... and the story continues"
They were magnificent, the UNHEILIG songs like "Born to Live", "Great Freedom", "Just Like You Were", "By Your Side" or "I'd Like to Visit You". They will remain unforgettable, along with many others. Not only were the songs magnificent, but it was also the Graf with his deep, warm, and touching voice and his multi-layered and profound lyrics that took one on an emotional rollercoaster ride.
Four young individuals, all professional musicians for years and admirers of the Graf, his music, and his lyrics, wanted to ensure that what they had experienced live so often would also be possible in the future. With great reverence for the original and love for the Graf's work, while also having the freedom to put their own stamp on his music, they founded SCHEINHEILIG.
SCHEINHEILIG, as a live band, perform many of the great UNHEILIG songs and also a few rare gems. All those amazing lyrics, all those great melodies, plus free goosebumps, wonderful memories, nostalgia, and simply a wonderful time. Just as they were: UNHEILIG, just as he was: the Graf
"UNHEILIG is history... and the story continues".
SCHEINHEILIG performs UNHEILIG.

Doors Open: 7:00 PM / Start: 8:00 PM

For the first time, the Sandtheater Moritzburg presents the most popular Christmas fairy tale of the Germans - "Three Wishes for Cinderella", in close proximity to the fairytale castle Moritzburg - at Adams Gasthof.

Admission: 1:30 pm

For the first time, Sandtheater Moritzburg presents Germany's most beloved Christmas fairy tale - "Three Wishes for Cinderella", in close proximity to Moritzburg Castle - at Adams Gasthof.

Admission: 6:30 PM

For the first time, the Sandtheater Moritzburg presents the most popular Christmas fairy tale of the Germans - "Three Wishes for Cinderella," in close proximity to Moritzburg Castle - at Adams Guesthouse.

Admission: 10:30 AM

For the first time, the Sandtheater Moritzburg presents the probably most popular Christmas fairy tale of the Germans - "Three Wishes for Cinderella", in close proximity to Moritzburg Castle - in Adams Gasthof.

Admission: 4:00 PM

City tour with a twist: During your smartphone-guided scavenger hunt, you'll puzzle over a few riddles along the way. And after solving each question or task, you'll receive interesting information about the corresponding safari station.

By the way: During your tour, you should aim to hunt down as many safari points as possible. So, every shot counts! Um... we meant, of course: Every answer counts!

Your route will take you to various safari stations. Along the way, you'll discover not only historical sites but also sights and hotspots off the beaten tourist paths. The Safari team has made sure that you'll encounter a few surprises along the way!

Find out in a fun and amusing way new and astonishing things about your city. Here, you'll get exciting insights beyond the classic sightseeing tours and learn interesting facts about your Safari-City on the side.

By the way: The Safari is available 24/7, all year round and lasts approximately 90 minutes.

This evening-long and diverse performance tests the limits of load-bearing – of the individual, our society, our living spaces. How much can we endure? How much can, should, or may we impose on ourselves and others? Following the fruitful collaboration of the Societaetstheater with the artist duo Peschken/Pisarsky in the projects WANDERBOJE (2021) and GLOBALPIX (2023), we now take another project of the versatile artist couple as an occasion to create a spectacle involving companies and artists from various art genres and guests from sports and science, which will take place throughout the entire theater house.

This special theater evening combines New Circus, dance, acting, sports, film, visual arts, and science. At the center of the evening are the load-bearing figures created by Anne Peschken and Marek Pisarsky, which evolve anew during the performances.

The circus company led by Emma Laule opens the evening in the theater hall with their show Permeable Bodies, in which granite stones interact with people and gravity meets weightlessness. There, the circus company KLUB GIRKO concludes the three-and-a-half-hour spectacle in a finale featuring countless bamboo poles.

Within this framework, the theater evening guides the audience through all the rooms of the Societaetstheater:

The weightlifting section of the sports club DSC 1898 invites you to training and competition in the sports studio.

Actor Thomas Stecher reads Ingo Schulze's text about the heavy load-bearing body in Berlin, this concrete monster that is the only existing relic from Hitler/Speer's architectural project for the world capital Germania.

Dr. Julia Schönborn from the World Ethos Institute Tübingen speaks very personally about the limits of load-bearing.

Art historian Marta Smolińska invites a discourse on atlases, caryatids, and load-bearing figures.

Biologist and lawyer Charlotte Streck is a co-founder and president of the climate consulting firm, the think tank Climate Focus, and teaches aspects of climate policy at the University of Potsdam – in a lively lecture she illustrates what happens when we reach and exceed tipping points in ecological systems, both regionally and globally.

There are speed datings, entertaining elevator rides, a Messi hell, conversations at the bar, exhibitions, dance performances, and a library of records …

Artistic direction: Anne Peschken, Marek Pisarsky, Kathleen Gaube, Heiki Ikkola | Circus performers: Alba De Miguel, Emma Laule, Josef Stiller, Moritz Grenz | Dance performers: Chiara Detscher, Jule Rottluff, Katja Erfurth, Seraphine Detscher | Acting/Performance: Hanno Wuckasch, Heiki Ikkola, Iris Pickhard, Kathleen Gaube, Thomas Stecher | Special guests: Charlotte Streck, Dr. Julia Schönborn, weightlifting section of DSC 1898, Marta Smolińska | Equipment collaboration: Wiete Sommer | Music: Benjamin Rottluff | Texts: Franziska Fuhlrott, Ingo Schulze, Jule Hanka, among others | Live camera: Eckart Reichl | Projections: Beate Oxenfart | Technology: Anton Ihlenfeldt, Bernd Krakowsky, Ole Büttner, Robby Hirche

Duration: approx. 210 minutes

On the evening of the performance, various individual formats, such as individual discussions with specialists and training with the weightlifters, can be booked at the entrance terminal. A common start is desirable, as the evening follows a larger dramaturgy; the latest entry is possible until 9:30 PM.