Winston Smith has had enough. He wants green meadows, not reinforced concrete. Sex, not abstinence. The dictatorship wants to (in) his head. But no. That's not true. Visit us at the Ministry of Love!

The theater kuenstlerhaus43 in the palace presents an interactive scenic reading that no one will quickly forget: Ruthless and at the same time with a twinkle in the eye.

In a time of fake news, bad news, the word "Lügenpresse," and in a time of supposed uniformity, we live. Are cookies a means of surveillance? Is the smartphone listening? Freedom of speech? The transparent person - Freedom through digitalization? Is state encouraged gendering an instrument of control? Is Wiesbaden a dictatorship?

But no. Every person in Wiesbaden can convince themselves of this at the Ministry of Love. We are here for you. We look into hearts and help wherever we still can.

Our new location is at the Palace Hotel. The Ministry of Love. Our best employee Winston Smith has been working for us since 1984.

1949: George Orwell's novel "1984" explodes the book market. A utopian work or satire? A year after its publication, the author dies of a mysterious cough.
1984: Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Ronald Reagan announces the bombing of the Soviet Union, the first Apple computer is introduced, and Kim Jong-un enters the world. Cable TV comes into homes.
2024: Alexa assists, cameras protect the squares, AI can compose poetry and think, digitalization instead of work. War omnipresent. Alexei Anatolievich Navalny dies under mysterious circumstances.

Alice Hoffmann performs several programs with us, please check our homepage for more information!

Info about the coffee gathering:
“Oma, chatGPT is boring…” How about turning off the PC and experiencing a few very special hours at the thalhaus Theater on a cozy Sunday afternoon during coffee and cake time?

Alice Hoffmann, known as the “first” Hilde from the comedy series “Familie Heinz Becker,” presents a program that at first glance seems like an intimate reading in the family’s fireplace room. However, this time the audience can expect far more than just light entertainment. In addition to humorous moments, there will also be space for profound and serious topics that encourage reflection and exchange. As visitors can bring their favorite reading, ideas, or questions of all kinds, a lively performance is created together with Alice Hoffmann, which is different every time.

Experience Alice Hoffmann, the “apron of the nation,” in a program that moves between reading, cabaret, conversations, and music, constantly reinventing itself. Critical and reflective themes on past and current events will also not be overlooked. No performance is like the other – it is a vibrant mosaic of humor, thoughtfulness, and personal exchange.

The “icing on the cake” of this event? Of course, the coffee and cake served by the friendly thalhaus team upon request. After the official part, Alice Hoffmann is available for conversations and profound moments with the guests.

Info about the SOLO program:
Alice Hoffmann embodies the Saarland housewife “Vanessa Backes,” who is still fondly remembered as the “first” Hilde from the well-known comedy series “Familie Heinz Becker.” As Hilde, she makes millions of viewers laugh in front of their televisions.

In her solo program Torschlusspanik, her life as a housewife has reached the point where she wonders if she has really done everything she wanted to do. Senior driver's license, Ayurveda retreats, finally falling in love again, learning a new language, or singing in a newcomer competition, there’s hardly anything she hasn't always wanted to try.

But in the end, it turns out as it must. Time and again, it becomes clear that life does not always go the way it should.
With a special touch of cabaret wit, the apron wearer engages the audience’s laughter muscles. When she encourages her audience to comment and interject, she never fails to provide an answer.

This performance is unfortunately sold out! also plays on Thursday, 06.11.2025

“1h22 vor dem Ende” is a pitch-black comedy that oscillates between tragedy and comedy, drama and parody. Matthieu Delaporte, known for works like “The Name,” creates an original and witty speculation about the immediate time before the end in this play. The German premiere took place on June 4, 2023, at the Renaissance Theater Berlin.

In the fall of 1717, it was to be the musical event in Dresden: The organ virtuoso Louis Marchand had agreed to a contest against Johann Sebastian Bach.
But Marchand fled just before the date, and the spectacle was canceled.
Now it will be made up at the Bach Festival Wiesbaden. Two keyboard virtuosos will take on the roles of the competitors: here, the harpsichordists Eva Maria Pollerus and Alexander von Heißen, the recipient of the Leipzig Bach Prize 2022.

Copyright: Yat Ho Tsang

Doors open: 7:00 PM

On the 60th anniversary of Nat King Cole's death and the 30th anniversary of the band "Clarissa & Around Midnight"

We present a special concert in honor of the legendary American jazz pianist Nat King Cole, who passed away on February 15, 1965.
The formation "Clarissa & Around Midnight" is simultaneously celebrating its 30th band anniversary with a musical homage to the great master. You can expect an evening filled with timeless melodies that connect generations and invite dreaming.
The band creates a vibrant jazz atmosphere with their unique chemistry that takes the audience on an emotional journey. The repertoire includes both classics and modern interpretations that encourage singing and dancing.
As a special highlight, the special guests, the tap dance duo "Tap and Tray" with Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis, will provide surprising and fresh accents.
Line-up:
• Clarissa Hechavarria-Ruddock – Vocals
• Uwe "Budde" Thiem – Piano
• Alfredo Hechavarria – Bass
• Klaus Bleis – Drums, Tap Dance
For the inspiration, we thank you, Nat!

Doors open: 19:15

What did you do back then, in 1968? Laugh, cry, dance, sing ...? Three old '68ers meet again in the present and reminisce about their crazy time in 1968:
With their singing skills, Eddy and Rollin compete for the favor of Susi, who constantly brings a breath of fresh air to the old rehearsal room with her ever-changing ways, while the overpowering mother, wielding a kitchen spoon, pushes them to study.
They meet again in 1981: Rollin has just returned from Ireland, Eddie comes back from India, and Susie is working on a commune cultivating compost worms. Through mediation, spiritual music, and Tarot, Eddie and Susie try to heal Rollin, who appears too "materialistic" to them...

"68er Spätlese" is a tribute to the wild times, filled with live-sung catchy tunes of freedom, justice, and love.

Doors open at 7.30 pm

Winston Smith has had enough. He wants green meadows, not reinforced concrete. Sex, not abstinence. The dictatorship wants to (in) his head. But no. That's not true. Visit us at the Ministry of Love!

The theater kuenstlerhaus43 in the palace presents an interactive scenic reading that no one will quickly forget: Ruthless and at the same time with a twinkle in the eye.

In a time of fake news, bad news, the word "Lügenpresse," and in a time of supposed uniformity, we live. Are cookies a means of surveillance? Is the smartphone listening? Freedom of speech? The transparent person - Freedom through digitalization? Is state encouraged gendering an instrument of control? Is Wiesbaden a dictatorship?

But no. Every person in Wiesbaden can convince themselves of this at the Ministry of Love. We are here for you. We look into hearts and help wherever we still can.

Our new location is at the Palace Hotel. The Ministry of Love. Our best employee Winston Smith has been working for us since 1984.

1949: George Orwell's novel "1984" explodes the book market. A utopian work or satire? A year after its publication, the author dies of a mysterious cough.
1984: Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Ronald Reagan announces the bombing of the Soviet Union, the first Apple computer is introduced, and Kim Jong-un enters the world. Cable TV comes into homes.
2024: Alexa assists, cameras protect the squares, AI can compose poetry and think, digitalization instead of work. War omnipresent. Alexei Anatolievich Navalny dies under mysterious circumstances.

Presale starts on 02.04.2025, 12:00 PM (Presale Online Shop Eventim), 07.04.2025 12:00 PM (general presale)

Rebellion? Anarchy? Uproar? Wasn't that the goal? Definitely! But suddenly you find yourself at the changing table at three in the morning, the bottle is bubbling in the warmer, and damn it, the pacifier is missing again! Stand-up comedian Jochen Prang has been a punk rocker his whole life. Wild and unrestrained! But now he is also a father of two and lives in a terraced house in Stuttgart. This dilemma is actually a stroke of luck for his audience: because in his balancing act between the desire to live out his wild side and on the other hand to keep the children's room walkable, Jochen has developed a great perspective on the madness of life. This has made him a solid part of the German stand-up comedy scene for several years. He appears in live formats such as NightWash or Quatsch Comedy Club and is regularly seen on TV - including as the host of the ZDF show Chaos Comedy Club. In his new solo program, he shows, among other things, that parenting is compatible with his old punk rock values and that a certain level of anarchy is beneficial in everyday life. Because, in reality, one must say: only since having children, Jochen truly knows what true anarchy really means!

“1h22 vor dem Ende” is a pitch-black comedy that oscillates between tragedy and comedy, drama and parody. Matthieu Delaporte, known for works like “The Name,” creates an original and witty speculation about the immediate time before the end in this play. The German premiere took place on June 4, 2023, at the Renaissance Theater Berlin.

Velvets - Stage adaptation of the world-famous book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye!"
Who does not know these most famous lines from Saint-Exupéry's world-renowned story. In search of the essential things of life, the little prince lands on planet Earth and meets a stranded pilot there: the little prince not only tells him his life story, but also of his colorful travel encounters.
The interaction between humans, puppets, and the possibilities of black theater reveal the special, poetic charm of the narrative.
Our cult piece for over 40 years, with more than 1600 performances at home and abroad.

For adults and children aged 8 and above.

Admission: 45 minutes before the start of the performance

Johann Sebastian Bach: Messe F-Dur BWV 233
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Motets from "Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta"
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060

The focus of the concert is Johann Sebastian Bach's Missa in F-Dur BWV 233. It is one of the four Kyrie-Gloria Masses that he likely composed in the 1730s for a particularly festive Leipzig service. The communion hymn "Christe, du Lamm Gottes" is artfully integrated into the Kyrie. The Gloria and the Cum sancto spiritu are given concertante brilliance by the obbligato horns, and the arias for soprano, alto, and bass explore the emotional richness of the other movements with colorful instrumentation.

The motets from "Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta" by Jan Dismas Zelenka, a contemporary of Bach working in Dresden, were intended for Holy Week. They showcase him as a great artist of expression.

The instrumental highlight of the concert is finally Bach's Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060.

Natascha Goldberg | Soprano
Larissa Botos | Alto
Petro-Pavlo Tkalenko | Bass
Carin van Heerden | Baroque Oboe
Julia Huber-Warzecha | Baroque Violin
Baroque Orchestra Capella Montana
Chorale of the Bergkirche
Christian Pfeifer | Conductor

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A game about hopeful longing and insatiable love

Is love stronger than the will of the gods? Orpheus and Eurydice - known from Greek antiquity - love and lose each other. Orpheus wants to regain Eurydice and must go through hell to do so. He realizes that the path through hell with Hades and his hellhound Cerberus is much more difficult than he thought. Orpheus must activate all his powers to lead Eurydice out of hell back into life. Something terrible happens at the very last moment...
But does it really have to happen as the legend dictates? Or can it be changed?

Admittance from 7:30 PM

A diligent girl drops the spindle into the well and jumps in after it. There she enters the realm of Frau Holle and finds plenty of work: The bread needs to come out of the oven, the apples need to be picked from the tree, and Frau Holle's pillows need to be shaken so that it snows in the world. For her good work, she is richly rewarded by Frau Holle. Her not-so-diligent sister now sets off to the realm of Frau Holle as well. However, since she does not do any work there, she ends up being rewarded with pitch.

Wise texts, atmospheric music, and a crazy rooster as the audience favorite conjure up a fairy tale that is both deep and joyful on stage. A fairy tale about the success of good, joyful work.

Doors open at 10:30 AM.

A tale from One Thousand and One Nights about greed for power, wealth, and the search for love and happiness.

Aladdin, a poor street boy, is tasked by an evil sorcerer to find a mysterious lamp in a cave. The magic lamp houses a genie who grants its owner every wish. Aladdin becomes a wealthy man and even manages to marry the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Halima. However, the sorcerer has other plans. He wants the lamp back and to destroy Aladdin's happiness...

Admission from 3:30 PM

80 years have passed since World War II ended. Yet there are questions that remain unanswered. A small boy asks them. His name is Michael, living in Berlin Grunewald, in the year 1941.

District leader Zwerck has a sweat spot shaped like the outline of France under his arm. What does Hitler sweat when he raises his arm? Russia, perhaps?

"What is a candy doing at the jacket's lining?" is a fragment of a novel by the author Uta Kindermann. Poetically, urgently, and with a humorous lightness, her protagonist raises important questions about the flashpoints of National Socialism that have never faded. The fate of Michael Gottschalk, whose father was a famous actor, served as inspiration for the author, which did not protect him from making a fatal decision for his family.

The war reports of 16-year-old Anton, who receives his call-up order in the last days of the war, unfold quite differently. He told this story again and again to his son 30 years later. Uta Kindermann has woven both stories, fiction and memories of “Anton’s War,” into a touching testimony that lingers long after.

With friendly support from the "Theater kuenstlerhaus43 e.V." sponsorship association, the local council Mitte, and the cultural office of the City of Wiesbaden.