What an event it was - the premiere of the hr1 Dancefloor at the KuSch really swept us off our feet. Dance enthusiasts from near and far were in attendance. It quickly became clear to Hessischer Rundfunk that this had to be repeated. However, since all Saturdays in 2024 were already booked, it will take a little longer until the second edition kicks off in April 2025. But then again, with full power! The premiere in March 2024 was a great success. This had to be continued!

Jewelled Moon – „Electric Waters“ Vinyl-Release-Show
In February 2025, the second studio album of the Tübingen band Jewelled Moon, titled Electric Waters, will be released on vinyl under the label Clostridium Records.
The band, which disbanded in 1996, reunited in early 2020 in its original lineup. Since then, they have released several works: the debut album New Sun Rising (June 2022), the second album Northern Lights (May 2023), and the EP Otherside (April 2024).
With a unique blend of organ/Rhodes, guitar/vocals, drums, and bass, Jewelled Moon creates their distinctive sound that underscores their creative versatility.
… a must for all fans of 70s progressive rock…

The Frankfurt instrumental band Glasgow Coma Scale, named after a scale used in medicine to assess consciousness disorders, is primarily categorized in the media as a post-rock band. So is it a pretty relaxed grooving experience? Certainly not – a tremendous energy surge flows through the sound of GCS. Genre-typical guitar loops alternate with crashing riffs; the band operates not only from their own scene but rather merges different styles.
The band has the fascinating ability to change the timbre within a piece almost imperceptibly yet profoundly. When a mystical electronic snippet starts a song, it initially sounds strongly ambient, but through a sensitive handling of intensity, tension building, and pressure, it quickly develops into a highly energetic track, always powerful and strong, captivating and ecstatic. Themes wonderfully develop in swirling repetitive guitars into ever higher spheres and open your mind. It’s almost a consciousness-expanding drug – it’s simply remarkably good music.
The compositions exude a strong, suggestive force, allowing images and landscapes to grow in your brain's twists. Consciousness expansion on a note basis. Get in, buckle up, and enjoy the trip with Glasgow Coma Scale.

Songs from the Shadow World

A call echoes from the mists, flaming arrows break forth. The herald stands expectantly on the shores of the rough sea. He knows, nothing here is swept along from Grandma's sewing box. No, here seasoned warriors bring in rich loot. RAGNARÖEK returns from an epic voyage to take you along on the next journey. It leads from this world to the realm of lost souls, through wild taverns and the beds of lustful princesses up the ladder to heaven, to make all there feel the heat of hell, while Beelzebub drools over his sack.
The bards not only present songs from their previously released albums. No, there are also brand new pieces just waiting to be cast into new silver. In the songs, old tales merge with powerfully forged melodies. Told with the rough voice of the ferryman, underscored by steel-hard guitars and heavy percussion. Sweetened with sounds of the medieval thunderbag and driven by fiery hammer strikes of the blacksmith, a raging flood of pure playfulness unfolds.
Come forth, close your eyes, and open your ears.

Come aboard for a great voyage, welcome to the shadow world!!!

RAGNARÖEK are: Charon the ferryman (voc, pipe), Sigar the skinner (git), Ark the reaper (git), The Zeus (bass), Rondall the bruiser (dr), Bernd the blacksmith and Jessi the fiery (fire show)

Doors open: 20:00 Uhr

2024-09-29_The Eternal Snob

2024-11-30_Mindfully Murdering

2025-02-15_Things I Know for Sure

2025-03-22_Rent a Friend

2025-04-26_Waiting for the Bus

Admission: 7:00 PM

Michl Müller in motion

Cabaret artist and comedian Michl Müller dances the "Limbo of Life".
As the Roman politician, writer, and philosopher Cicero once stated: "No sober person will think of dancing, unless they were crazy." More than 2000 years later, this statement is now refuted for the first time. By Michl Müller, cabaret artist, comedian, Lower Franconian, and Carnival philosopher. In 2024, his new stage program "Limbo of Life" will start. In it, the multiple award-winning artist and musician proves that life as a whole is a dance that can surprisingly be mastered soberly and without major outbursts of madness.

Photo: Thomas Pfeiffer
At times mischievously witty, at times thigh-slappingly loud, direct and coarse, then again with gentler and more contemplative tones, Michl Müller skillfully and humorously navigates through the highs and lows of everyday life. Limbo dancing requires posture and agility. The pole is horizontal, the back is bent backwards, knees and shoulders should not touch the ground. Those who want to pass under the pole without touching it need talent and flexibility. This is especially true for the "Limbo of Life".

Michl Müller dances the "Limbo of Life" with a colorful repertoire of jokes, anecdotes, spontaneous ideas, and acrobatic musical interludes. A truly moving cabaret and comedy experience that even revolutionizes philosophical quotes. Go, watch, and laugh along.

Admission from 7:30 p.m.

Experience the hits of the incomparable Swedish cult band ABBA,
one of the most successful bands of all time with around 400 million records sold!

Accompanied by an exquisite multi-course menu, we will take you back to the time of
bell-bottoms and platform shoes.

In authentic costumes, our artists bring back the disco era with hits like "Dancing Queen"
and "Mamma Mia", among others.

Become part of an unforgettable evening, up close with Anni-Frid, Björn, Benni, and Agnetha,
and embark on a journey into the musical world of ABBA.

Doors open at 6:30 PM.

Since spring 2011, the group THE GREGORIAN VOICES has been on tour in Europe. Under the artistic direction of Oleksiy Semenchuk, the eight exceptional Ukrainian soloists present the musical tradition of Gregorian chant in a refined manner.

Dressed in traditional monk robes, the singers create a mystical atmosphere, taking the audience on a journey through the world of medieval sacred music - a sound world without temporal, religious, and linguistic boundaries! Experience a varied concert with a mix of Gregorian chants, Orthodox church music, and songs and madrigals from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. With their vocal power and many solo passages, the choir and its soloists show how Gregorian chant can sound today: authentic yet contemporary.

The second part of the concert features classics of pop music, such as "Ameno" by ERA, "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban, "Knocking on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan, "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen, "Sound of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel, "Sailing" by Rod Stewart, among others, which have been rearranged in the style of Gregorian chant.

Let yourself be inspired by the fascinating voices of the soloists and the gripping choral singing: the Middle Ages meet the here and now.

THE GREGORIAN VOICES offer you a breathtaking concert and an incomparable listening pleasure.

Doors open at 6:00 PM

Translated text:

by Katharina Grosch after Henrik Ibsen

"Solness" is the Norwegian word for sunshine - and a fitting name for the radiant being of the master builder, the subject of Ibsen's classic. Master builder Solness is a successful artist, wealthy boss, and respected husband, but his brilliance is fueled by dominance and exploitation, rooted, as almost always with Ibsen, in a sin of the past. Solness is the center of his universe - until the young Hilde Wangel enters the scene. She is the only one who is neither emotionally nor financially dependent on him. And she has a score to settle with him...
Patriarchal power structures, artistic genius, and emancipation are themes of this masterpiece. In Director and Playwright Katharina Grosch's adaptation of the material, the focus is on the conflicts, expectations, and fears between generations. Houses become a societal metaphor and female anger finds its place too.

The Death is back! But no matter when or where he comes, there is always too little of HER available. That's why it's high time to talk about time, according to Germany's most popular Grim Reaper.

In his latest and most critical show to-date, the creator of Death Comedy dedicates himself to humanity's absolute scarcity and tries to find out with his audience whether eternity should really always be desirable. For example, in the supermarket line or when building an airport. Even mayflies live more relaxed lives these days than humans. They simply lack time for stress, selfies, and poverty in old age. Veiled in a dark robe and with his unmistakably angelic voice, Death ironically and with his very own dark humor observes humanity's pursuit of more sand in the hourglass. A program about the meaning of (end) life, the advantages of deadlines, and the long-awaited third stage of the countrywide image campaign.

Also, reach into the drum of Death and grab your Timeless. Quickly, before it's too late!

Welcome to the realm of knowledge in the Baroque era: Stepping onto creaking floorboards into the quiet grandeur of our historical library hall, one is immediately enveloped by the collective knowledge of the Early Modern period. Like stage sets in a Baroque theater, the original bookshelves jut into the space, housing around 50,000 books from all fields of knowledge. Behind unassuming book spines lie remarkable treasures, such as the first German Bible printed in America.

At the end of the 17th century, the orphanage's library was established as one of the first public libraries in Germany. Primarily through donations, book exchanges, and their own publications, the library grew so rapidly that within a few years, it was comparable to significant German university libraries. In 1728, it received its own building, which is considered the oldest surviving secular library structure in Germany. Not only in recent times has the library been visited by guests and researchers from around the world: Albrecht von Haller, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe all admired its bibliophilic treasures. We present a selection of them for you in rotating cabinet exhibitions in the former reading room of the library.

10 am - 5 pm

The Art and Natural History Chamber is considered the oldest German museum room. It was established by August Hermann Francke for educational purposes and is now once again set up according to the original museum concept of the 18th century in its historical location in the attic of the Historical Orphanage.

Eighteen richly decorated collection cabinets house approximately 3000 natural specimens, curiosities, and artifacts. They provide a unique impression of a Baroque cabinet of curiosities. Unlike modern museums, the chamber follows an encyclopedic collecting approach. A distinction is made between natural specimens and artifacts. The natural specimens are divided into rocks, plants, and animals, while the artifacts are categorized into visual arts, calligraphy, coins, everyday culture, and clothing. The goal was to create a mirror image of the world: a microcosm that made the macrocosm as the wonderful creation of God tangible.

In a series of events, art projects take place around the Art and Natural History Chamber. In the so-called "Contemporary Reflections on the Art and Natural History Chamber," foundations invite artists to engage in an artistic dialogue with the chamber.

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Tue-Sun 10am-5pm

Palace-like, the orphanage rises on Franckeplatz. Then as now, it is the centerpiece of the Francke Foundations. Erected in 1698 as the first building of the school city, it represents a new facet of European Baroque, combining confident representation without extravagant ornamentation and setting the tone for orphanage architecture.

Today, the orphanage is our museum and cultural center. Right from the start, two permanent exhibitions guide you through the history of the foundation and the global impact of Pietism. On the first floor, the former prayer and singing hall surprises with its bright architecture. Today, it enjoys an excellent reputation as a concert hall due to its fantastic acoustics. In the adjacent conference rooms, a photo exhibition showcases the impressive renovation work since the foundations were reestablished in 1991. The second floor is reserved for our changing special exhibitions, which provide insight into important themes of the foundation's history from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Passing through the art and natural history collections in the attic, you reach the balcony via a narrow wooden staircase. Here, a wide view opens up over the impressive ensemble with school buildings from three centuries. There is also a splendid panorama of the Old Town of Halle from here. In the basement, children can explore their own paths in the Krokoseum.

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

What power does the word have? For Halleschen Pietismus, the word was of central importance. On the ground floor of the Historical Orphanage, we show you how August Hermann Francke's reform movement could spread around the world.

Francke developed central reformative goals of Martin Luther's with Halleschen Pietismus. His approach was as clear as it was revolutionary: Every person should find God through their own Bible reading. However, for this to happen, everyone - boys and girls alike - had to learn to read, everyone should be able to afford their own Bible and it should be printed in their own native language. Therefore, Francke established schools for all social classes, printed millions of German-language People's Bibles, and created an international network through which the Bible was translated into many other languages. His educational initiative allowed a broad population to engage with the word. In the 18th-century evangelical parsonages, the authors of the Romantic and Enlightenment periods were highly regarded. A culture of self-reflection spread in Pietism, which was reflected in diaries and personal testimonies, giving us remarkable insights into the spiritual life of people of that time. Symbolically, the power of the word is also evident in the meticulously restored pulpit from the Church of St. Ulrich in Halle, where Francke preached from 1715 and which you can admire in the exhibition.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

4 talers and 16 groschen are considered the founding capital of the Francke Foundations. How an unparalleled school city grew from this unexpected donation to a simple pastor in Glaucha can be discovered on the ground floor of the Historical Orphanage. A multimedia installation and numerous extraordinary objects will transport you into the fascinating founding and impact history of Francke's work. Because what began with a school for the poor and an orphanage, developed in a few decades into a true reform project that was based on education: Over 2,000 students learned in various schools, specially constructed economic buildings, a hospital, and a pharmacy guaranteed the care of over 3,000 people on the premises, unique cultural-historical collections in the library and chamber of wonders were established, and Francke's ideas were spread within and outside Europe. August Hermann Francke wanted nothing less than a "world change through personal change." Discover everything he set in motion through this.

10:00 am - 5:00 pm

by Anna Bolk
With Jutta Habicht & Sabine Urig
They are successful. They are experienced. They are amazing... geared for trouble.
They have performed their debut evening over three hundred times. Standing ovations.
Throughout Germany. They have freed themselves, -danced and -sung. They have brainwashed themselves
and learned to accept their age.
But ALTE MÄDCHEN are deeply stuck in a dilemma: Both are absolute alpha females.
And each one wants to be the boss.
But how does one fight for the coveted position? With the weapons of a woman?
And what are those? The tried-and-tested passive-aggressive method?
Building walls, bullying, needling, disappearing?
Totally outdated.
Or, in a typical male fashion, simply making a statement? And what if this whole
power thing turned out to be completely overrated in the end? Does POWER even make one evil? Or is it
sexy? Is the quota for women a way to get a foot in the door?
What awaits on the other side of Power? A warm welcome?
Or another dilemma?
Razor-sharp dialogues, stirring songs, and multiple dance performances without fear of
loss and with the use of all sustainable resources:
The two gladiators of pop cabaret answer all open questions.
Michael Gaedt (Die kleine Tierschau) writes after the duo premiere on October 12, 2023
at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart: "Pop cabaret...for the first time, this often
used sign fits, as the focus is not on the desire for something poppy,
but the whole show is a #1 pop song. No fear of being vulnerable, no fear of
big emotions or pathos and quite elegantly, in passing, explaining the world to you.
Sure, Pink and Taylor Swift can do that too, but so can Jutta Habicht and Sabine Urig!
…"