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Theater Aachen
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Theater Aachen

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52062 Aachen

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The Theater Aachen primarily presents drama and musical productions at its three venues, which are visited by approximately 130,000 people annually.

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Theater

Capacity

up to 730 Persons

Indoor/Outdoor

Indoor

Ambience

Modern

Environment

City

Parking

Public parking

Public transport

Less than 100 meters

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Upcoming events

Hochschulsportshow – Aachener Hochschulsport
2/11/2026 at 6:30 PM / Aachen

At the Hochschulsportshow, the Aachen university sports are presented in their greatest variety. With a lot of creativity and aesthetics, the spectacular choreographies of the sports groups create a unique highlight of the winter semester in Aachen. Year after year, more and more university sports groups from various sports disciplines participate, motivated to present their sports appropriately and to work towards a show performance alongside the regular course offerings. In addition, before the show, there will be an awards ceremony for athletes that pays due respect to the athletic achievements of the Aachen students.

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Eugen Onegin
2/13/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Lyrical scenes in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Text by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin

In Russian with German surtitles

After a sleepless night reading Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin," the concept for Tchaikovsky's new opera was born: "I seek an intimate yet powerful drama based on conflicts that I have experienced or seen, which can touch me deeply." Tchaikovsky transforms the novel into a lyrical chamber play, where unbridled love, sharp rejection, and a deadly duel shake the emotional worlds of young people: The young Tatiana, lost in her books, falls head over heels in love with the reckless Onegin. In a passionate letter, she confesses her love to him. However, he coldly rejects her, instead indulging in her sister Olga and killing his good friend Lenski in a duel. After years of wandering, Onegin realizes his missed opportunity. Is there a way back?

Director Verena Stoiber explores in her first work at the Theater Aachen this profound kaleidoscope of "real" people, whose love is rendered impossible by missed chances, bad timing, and youthful recklessness with deadly consequences.

Alice im Wunderland
2/14/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Family piece by Nikolas Darnstädt after Lewis Carroll with music by Malcolm Kemp
Translated by Angelika Eisold-Viebig

A story about growing up and becoming an adult, about the feeling of "being very big and very small," about encounters with the unfamiliar and the question: Who am I when I am constantly changing? Lewis Carroll, a mathematician by profession, sends the little Alice on a journey full of unpredictable twists and logical contradictions in his main work. The fantastically crazy beings she meets in Wonderland – the white rabbit, the mad hatter, the grinning cat, the queen of hearts, or the egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty – are cult figures.
Director Nikolas Darnstädt stages "Alice" as a musical adventure journey about the power of imagination: As long as we dream and tell each other stories, we continuously discover that the world could be entirely different. Just like Darnstädt, costume designer Laura Kirst works for the first time in Aachen. For set designer Sina Manthey, however, it is a reunion, as she already created the magical underwater worlds for the family piece "The Fisherman and His Wife." The fitting soundtrack and original songs are provided by actor-musician Malcolm Kemp.

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Blutbrot
2/15/2026 at 6:00 PM / Aachen

by Miriam Unterthiner
World Premiere
Winning piece of the Kleist Promotion Prize 2025

The Brenner Pass: A clearing between mountains in idyllic landscape and a border crossing between Austria and Italy. Here, 80 years ago, a rather unknown crime took place. On secret smuggler paths over the green border, high-ranking NS officials like Josef Mengele or Adolf Eichmann fled from the reach of the Allies and their just punishment first to Italy and from there into the world. And they had help from the local population. Miriam Unterthiner's new play "Blutbrot," which will be awarded the Kleist Promotion Prize for young drama in 2025 and will have its world premiere at the Theater Aachen, is about the so-called "rat line," as this escape route was called. The "Blutbrot" is a metaphor for repressed guilt: The ground on which this happened produces the bread we are supposed to eat today. Can we chew, swallow, and digest it? Or can we no longer get it down? Poetically condensed and at the same time concrete, virtuoso and powerful, with fine humor and grand images, "Blutbrot" literally digs into the past and builds a bridge to the present.

L’elisir d’amore - Der Liebestrank
2/15/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Melodrama giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani based on Eugène Scribe

In Italian with German surtitles

The enthusiastic Nemorino loves Adina. Hopelessly. Because she seems to have eyes only for the boastful Belcore. And anyway, Adina prefers to live free and unbound. A magic potion is needed to make the other person fall in love. How convenient that the wonderful doctor Dulcamara has a remedy for everything and that Nemorino is convinced to buy a love potion for his already meager money. As it turns out, it is just an ordinary red wine hidden behind it.
And Adina appears rather irritated by the tipsy, self-confident Nemorino. Even more love potion should finally bind her to him. But Adina has long seen through Nemorino and knows a better remedy...
Donizetti's cheerful love story, filled with detours, delights not only with a phony love potion but also with its heartfelt melodies, playful rhythms, and nimble coloraturas, which Joan Anton Rechi, the director of the Aachen successful production "Sweeney Todd," skillfully and playfully brings to the stage with the ensemble.

Der Kämpfer - Premiere
2/20/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

by Juri Zanger
World Premiere
Collaboration with the Toneelacademie Maastricht

Michael is afraid. His father is going to die, but what is worse is how lonely his father seems to be. A loneliness that Michael has often felt from him - but they have never talked about it. Is his father affected by the 'male loneliness epidemic'? This term is on everyone's lips - women and feminism are said to be responsible for men's loneliness. At least that’s what the men claim, on blogs, in videos, on social media. But that doesn’t fit at all with Michael's father and his loneliness. How can Michael help his father? And in time?

Juri Zanger's play "Der Kämpfer" is inspired by experiences with his own father. In times of a culture war from the right, in which women* are currently blamed for men's disadvantages in the patriarchy, he explores male relationships and intergenerational masculinity - critically but lovingly.

Juri Zanger is studying directing at the Toneelacademie Maastricht and presents "Der Kämpfer" as his directorial debut in Aachen at the end of his studies.

Direction, text, and music: Juri Zanger
Set and costumes: Franziska Leonie Keller
Stage management: Elise Ogrinc
Dramaturgy: Taale Frese / Kerstin Grübmeyer
Accompaniment: Eva Lemaire

Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn - Wiederaufnahme
2/21/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Musical theater piece about attitude and resistance
by Florian Fischer and Kerstin Grübmeyer
with music by Malcolm Kemp

What motivates people to resist a violent regime and to put up resistance? And how does solidarity transcend ideological boundaries and class differences? In times of a global shift to the right, engaging with antifascist resistance is highly relevant – and looking into the past is necessary and productive. The Theater Aachen therefore addresses this topic with this piece, which also reflects on the city's local history during the Nazi regime. "Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn" is a poetic-political reflection on resistance and what enables it, as well as a contribution to the city's culture of remembrance.

Alice im Wunderland
2/22/2026 at 5:00 PM / Aachen

Family piece by Nikolas Darnstädt after Lewis Carroll with music by Malcolm Kemp
Translated by Angelika Eisold-Viebig

A story about growing up and becoming an adult, about the feeling of "being very big and very small," about encounters with the unfamiliar and the question: Who am I when I am constantly changing? Lewis Carroll, a mathematician by profession, sends the little Alice on a journey full of unpredictable twists and logical contradictions in his main work. The fantastically crazy beings she meets in Wonderland – the white rabbit, the mad hatter, the grinning cat, the queen of hearts, or the egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty – are cult figures.
Director Nikolas Darnstädt stages "Alice" as a musical adventure journey about the power of imagination: As long as we dream and tell each other stories, we continuously discover that the world could be entirely different. Just like Darnstädt, costume designer Laura Kirst works for the first time in Aachen. For set designer Sina Manthey, however, it is a reunion, as she already created the magical underwater worlds for the family piece "The Fisherman and His Wife." The fitting soundtrack and original songs are provided by actor-musician Malcolm Kemp.

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Pablo Held Trio feat. Chris Potter
2/23/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

PABLO HELD piano

ROBERT LANDFERMANN bass

JONAS BURGWINKEL drums

The Pablo Held Trio is currently one of the most vibrant and significant formations in European jazz. It transcends the boundaries between composition and improvisation by foregoing predetermined elements – a sequence of themes and a predefined way to present them – during concerts. The risk of radical spontaneity has given the trio wings for years, making it a model of an aesthetic that can only be found in a few artists. The cohesion of the Pablo Held Trio is based on friendship and the creative will to continually explore new territories. The artistic weight and independence of the three exceptional musicians attract a growing circle of congenial musicians from both the European and American continents, who frequently join the trio.

Alice im Wunderland
2/23/2026 at 11:00 AM / Aachen

Family piece by Nikolas Darnstädt based on Lewis Carroll with music by Malcolm Kemp
Translated by Angelika Eisold-Viebig

A story about growing up and becoming an adult, about feeling "really big and really small", about encounters with the strange and the question: Who am I when I am constantly changing? Lewis Carroll, a mathematician by profession, sends little Alice on a journey full of unpredictable twists and logical contradictions in his main work. The fantastically crazy beings she encounters in Wonderland – the white rabbit, the mad hatter, the grinning cat, the queen of hearts, or the egg-shaped Humpty Dumpty – are cult figures.
Director Nikolas Darnstädt stages "Alice" as a musical adventure journey about the power of imagination: As long as we dream and tell each other stories, we continuously rediscover that the world could be completely different. Just like Darnstädt, costume designer Laura Kirst is working for the first time in Aachen. For set designer Sina Manthey, however, it is a reunion; she already created the magical underwater worlds for the family piece "The Fisherman and His Wife". The appropriate soundtrack and original songs are provided by actor-musician Malcolm Kemp.

Tickets can only be booked in advance at the theater box office Tel. 0241-4784-244 or theaterkasse@mail.aachen.de

Stadtgespräch
2/24/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Panel discussion with artists and experts from Aachen

For the participatory theater piece "Die Ungehorsamen," journalists Marcel Raabe and Manuel Waltz conducted interviews with people who have been "disobedient" in various ways – whether they broke the law or were perceived as socially disobedient for other reasons. In the third "Stadtgespräch," the two authors exchange ideas with Aachen-based experts and activists on the topic of civil disobedience. When and for what do we need disobedience?

Free numbered tickets can be booked in advance only at the theater box office Tel. 0241-4784-244 or theaterkasse@mail.aachen.de

Frankenstein
2/25/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Frankenstein
based on the novel by Mary Shelley
For ages 14 and up

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. Tech companies and governments are pumping billions into this promising key technology of the future. It is expected to revolutionize practically all areas of human life. Yet the idea at its core is not new: In 1816, Mary Shelley had her Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein create an artificial intelligence – his famous monster has been wandering through pop culture for over 200 years. Like today’s "Large Language Models" (e.g., ChatGPT), it learns through observation and imitation. Its clumsy brutality touches and terrifies us, just as AI simultaneously provokes both euphoria and apocalyptic fear. But what if these two reaction patterns are not even contradictory: Is the yearning for self-annihilation perhaps at the root of our inventive desire? Are we willingly replacing ourselves with a new, better form of existence – more rational and less destructive than the outdated human species?
In his playful reinterpretation, director Tristan Linder connects Mary Shelley’s classic with current technological debates, employing the very tools that are also the subject of the discussion. An evening of theater that navigates between science fiction and creation myth, between hope and fear.

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2044. Chronik der Zukunft
2/26/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Social Fiction by Gernot Grünewald & Ensemble
World Premiere - For everyone aged 14 and up

Aachen in the year 2044. After the National Alliance for Germany (NAfD) became the strongest force in the federal elections in 2029, democracy has been gradually abolished and an authoritarian regime has been established. Freedom of expression no longer exists, art production is under state control, daily "denationalizations" of people who cannot provide a German "genealogy certificate" take place, and digital surveillance is omnipresent.

Inspired by the podcast "2044. Chronik einer verlorenen Zukunft" by Norman Schäfer, the director and ensemble are developing a new piece that looks from the future to our present and examines, through a group of people, how action is possible in an authoritarian state and how we can prevent this future scenario. A teacher, a police officer, a reporter, an expelled detainee on the run, an artist in resistance, and a scientist from RWTH Aachen experience a world that has fallen out of balance. Gernot Grünewald has made a name for himself with documentary theater projects and has directed at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Stuttgart, and at the Munich Kammerspiele.

Preisträgerkonzert des 63. Regionalwettbewerbs „Jugend musiziert“
2/27/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

The curtain rises for the talented young musicians from the region!

In a delightful concert, the prize winners of this year's edition of the Regional Competition present excerpts from their competition entries.

This year's categories include solo performances for piano, harp, vocals, drum set (pop), and guitar (pop), as well as chamber music categories for strings, wind instruments, accordion, mixed ensembles, and new music.

Over 100 music-loving children and young people are participating again this year in the Regional Competition, which will take place from January 31 to February 1 at the music school of the city of Aachen.

The Regional Competition "Jugend musiziert" for the city and district region of Aachen and the districts of Düren and Heinsberg is jointly organized by the municipal music schools of the region. The festive prize winners' concert is hosted jointly by the regional committee "Jugend musiziert" and the theater.

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
2/27/2026 at 11:30 AM / Aachen

after the book of the same name by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy, and Therese Hochhuth in German

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb stands at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when your dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump into your arms? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, capped off with an excellent vegetable stew — without any lamb at all.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the start of the performance, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert and get into the mood for the performance. After the show, the children can try out the instruments they saw and, above all, heard during the performance together with the musicians.

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
2/27/2026 at 10:00 AM / Aachen

after the book of the same name by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy, and Therese Hochhuth in German

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb stands at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when your dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump into your arms? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, capped off with an excellent vegetable stew — without any lamb at all.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the start of the performance, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert and get into the mood for the performance. After the show, the children can try out the instruments they saw and, above all, heard during the performance together with the musicians.

Mysteryland
2/27/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Mysteryland
by Sarah Kilter
World premiere / Commissioned work

In the "Navel," people live like in an amusement park with roller coasters, cotton candy, and mascots – while on the other side of the wall that confines this paradise, in the "Outskirts," precarious conditions and poverty prevail.
Regularly, people from the "Outskirts" are drawn to the "Navel," also to provide a better life for their families. The father of "She," the protagonist of this play, once left his family to work in the "Navel" – and did not return. Years later, "She" is grown up and follows in his footsteps. She hasn't spoken her native language from the "Outskirts" for a long time anyway. In the "Navel," there is work, roller coasters, maybe a future...
Sarah Kilter's new play "Mysteryland," created for the Theater Aachen, plays with a special allegory of a harsh reality. In the critics' survey of the specialist magazine "Theater heute," the author was nominated as the emerging playwright of the year. Her play "White Passing" was shown at the playwrights' theater days at the German Theater Berlin and was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis. Most recently, her play "Von Wunden und Wundern" premiered at the Schauspiel Leipzig.

Theaterführung 2025.26 - Führung durch das Theater
2/28/2026 at 2:00 PM / Aachen

Guided tour of the theater

Once a month there is a guided tour of our beautiful house. Led by none other than our long-time former dramaturg Lukas Popovic. Take a look into the mysterious worlds of the backstage and learn all about the history and present of our house and theater work.

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Eugen Onegin
2/28/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Lyrical scenes in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Text by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin

In Russian with German surtitles

After a sleepless night reading Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin," the concept for Tchaikovsky's new opera was born: "I seek an intimate yet powerful drama based on conflicts that I have experienced or seen, which can touch me deeply." Tchaikovsky transforms the novel into a lyrical chamber play, where unbridled love, sharp rejection, and a deadly duel shake the emotional worlds of young people: The young Tatiana, lost in her books, falls head over heels in love with the reckless Onegin. In a passionate letter, she confesses her love to him. However, he coldly rejects her, instead indulging in her sister Olga and killing his good friend Lenski in a duel. After years of wandering, Onegin realizes his missed opportunity. Is there a way back?

Director Verena Stoiber explores in her first work at the Theater Aachen this profound kaleidoscope of "real" people, whose love is rendered impossible by missed chances, bad timing, and youthful recklessness with deadly consequences.

Konzert des Jugendsinfonieorchesters
3/1/2026 at 6:00 PM / Aachen

JuSi – A collaboration of the Musikschule Aachen and the Sinfonieorchester Aachen

The JuSi is designed as a meeting point for classical music enthusiasts, young people, and young adults from the Aachen region who want to perform symphonic repertoire at an advanced level under professional guidance. The JuSi was founded in 1996 as an initiative of the Sinfonieorchester Aachen and is now jointly managed by the Musikschule and the Theater Aachen.

In its work, the JuSi benefits from the expertise and support of experienced colleagues through a “Tutti pro” sponsorship with the Sinfonieorchester Aachen. Regular concert visits to the Sinfonieorchester Aachen provide encouragement and inspiration. Rehearsal retreats and orchestra trips help the orchestra members grow together as a community beyond just making music together.

Since 2024, Alexander Scherf has been conducting the JuSi.

Interested instrumentalists from around 13 years old and young adults with orchestral experience are warmly invited to "try out" during an orchestra rehearsal on Mondays from 5:00 to 7:00 PM in the orchestra rehearsal room.

Contact:
alexander.scherf@mail.aachen.de

Program:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to the opera “The Magic Flute” KV 620

Maurizio Cazzati
Sonata à 5 “La Bianchina” for trumpet, strings, and basso continuo

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Concerto No. 2 in E major for double bass and orchestra

Antonín Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 in E minor (1st movement)

Aram Khachaturian
Waltz from the suite “Masquerade”

Soloists:

Pia Vohn, trumpet
Haowen Li, double bass

Der Kämpfer
3/1/2026 at 6:00 PM / Aachen

by Juri Zanger
World Premiere
Collaboration with the Toneelacademie Maastricht

Michael is afraid. His father is going to die, but what is worse is how lonely his father seems to be. A loneliness that Michael has often felt from him - but they have never talked about it. Is his father affected by the 'male loneliness epidemic'? This term is on everyone's lips - women and feminism are said to be responsible for men's loneliness. At least that’s what the men claim, on blogs, in videos, on social media. But that doesn’t fit at all with Michael's father and his loneliness. How can Michael help his father? And in time?

Juri Zanger's play "Der Kämpfer" is inspired by experiences with his own father. In times of a culture war from the right, in which women* are currently blamed for men's disadvantages in the patriarchy, he explores male relationships and intergenerational masculinity - critically but lovingly.

Juri Zanger is studying directing at the Toneelacademie Maastricht and presents "Der Kämpfer" as his directorial debut in Aachen at the end of his studies.

Direction, text, and music: Juri Zanger
Set and costumes: Franziska Leonie Keller
Stage management: Elise Ogrinc
Dramaturgy: Taale Frese / Kerstin Grübmeyer
Accompaniment: Eva Lemaire

3. Krabbelkonzert
3/2/2026 at 10:30 AM / Aachen

3. Krabbelkonzert
3/2/2026 at 9:30 AM / Aachen

Unser Deutschlandmärchen - Wiederaufnahme
3/6/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

after the novel by Dinçer Güçyeter

In Dinçer Güçyeter's novel "Unser Deutschlandmärchen," two generations of women – mother and grandmother – speak, along with the son of Fatma, who came to Nettetal in 1965 as the wife of a Turkish guest worker. Through vivid imagery, poetry, monologues, dialogues, prayers, and dreams, the novel tells of hard work and great strength, of old role models and the departure into the new, of uprooting and longing.

"Director Antigone Akgün has staged a loving evening that works so well precisely because it does not accuse offensively, but instead lays a melancholy beneath the cheerfulness that speaks for itself. It operates on many levels: as a tribute to overworked women, as a mirror of a paternalistic host country, as a historical tutoring lesson, and as a story of empowerment – but also as a brilliantly performed, sparkling, and deeply moving evening. May it remain on the schedule for a long time." ↦ nachtkritik.de

Theaterführung 2025.26 - Führung durch das Theater
3/7/2026 at 2:00 PM / Aachen

Guided tour of the theater

Once a month there is a guided tour of our beautiful house. Led by none other than our long-time former dramaturg Lukas Popovic. Take a look into the mysterious worlds of the backstage and learn all about the history and present of our house and theater work.

Sold Out!

Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn - Wiederaufnahme
3/7/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Musical theater piece about attitude and resistance
by Florian Fischer and Kerstin Grübmeyer
with music by Malcolm Kemp

What motivates people to resist a violent regime and to put up resistance? And how does solidarity transcend ideological boundaries and class differences? In times of a global shift to the right, engaging with antifascist resistance is highly relevant – and looking into the past is necessary and productive. The Theater Aachen therefore addresses this topic with this piece, which also reflects on the city's local history during the Nazi regime. "Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn" is a poetic-political reflection on resistance and what enables it, as well as a contribution to the city's culture of remembrance.

L’elisir d’amore - Der Liebestrank
3/8/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Melodrama giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani based on Eugène Scribe

In Italian with German surtitles

The enthusiastic Nemorino loves Adina. Hopelessly. Because she seems to have eyes only for the boastful Belcore. And anyway, Adina prefers to live free and unbound. A magic potion is needed to make the other person fall in love. How convenient that the wonderful doctor Dulcamara has a remedy for everything and that Nemorino is convinced to buy a love potion for his already meager money. As it turns out, it is just an ordinary red wine hidden behind it.
And Adina appears rather irritated by the tipsy, self-confident Nemorino. Even more love potion should finally bind her to him. But Adina has long seen through Nemorino and knows a better remedy...
Donizetti's cheerful love story, filled with detours, delights not only with a phony love potion but also with its heartfelt melodies, playful rhythms, and nimble coloraturas, which Joan Anton Rechi, the director of the Aachen successful production "Sweeney Todd," skillfully and playfully brings to the stage with the ensemble.

3. Familienkonzert
3/8/2026 at 11:00 AM / Aachen

In this children's opera by Hans Krása, the siblings Aninka and Pepíček play the main roles: Hungry and worried about not being able to buy milk for their sick mother, they decide to earn money with street music. However, the grim organ grinder Brundibár has other plans for them. But with the help of many animals and the neighborhood children, they can drive Brundibár away and raise the saving money with their music. Krása's children's opera was performed 55 times in the Theresienstadt ghetto after its world premiere in a Jewish orphanage, where the composer and many participants of the premiere had been deported by the Nazis. The Aachen children's and youth choir sets a sign for humanity and against forgetting – also with a performance at the memorial "Vogelsang."

Work in Progress - Johannes-Passion
3/10/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

[information and rehearsal visit before the premiere / free entry / no tickets required]

Der Kämpfer
3/11/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

by Juri Zanger
World Premiere
Collaboration with the Toneelacademie Maastricht

Michael is afraid. His father is going to die, but what is worse is how lonely his father seems to be. A loneliness that Michael has often felt from him - but they have never talked about it. Is his father affected by the 'male loneliness epidemic'? This term is on everyone's lips - women and feminism are said to be responsible for men's loneliness. At least that’s what the men claim, on blogs, in videos, on social media. But that doesn’t fit at all with Michael's father and his loneliness. How can Michael help his father? And in time?

Juri Zanger's play "Der Kämpfer" is inspired by experiences with his own father. In times of a culture war from the right, in which women* are currently blamed for men's disadvantages in the patriarchy, he explores male relationships and intergenerational masculinity - critically but lovingly.

Juri Zanger is studying directing at the Toneelacademie Maastricht and presents "Der Kämpfer" as his directorial debut in Aachen at the end of his studies.

Direction, text, and music: Juri Zanger
Set and costumes: Franziska Leonie Keller
Stage management: Elise Ogrinc
Dramaturgy: Taale Frese / Kerstin Grübmeyer
Accompaniment: Eva Lemaire

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
3/12/2026 at 11:30 AM / Aachen

after the book of the same name by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy, and Therese Hochhuth in German

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb stands at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when your dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump into your arms? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, capped off with an excellent vegetable stew — without any lamb at all.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the start of the performance, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert and get into the mood for the performance. After the show, the children can try out the instruments they saw and, above all, heard during the performance together with the musicians.

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
3/12/2026 at 10:00 AM / Aachen

after the eponymous book by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy and Therese Hochhuth in German language

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb appears at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump around your neck? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, which is crowned at the end by a truly excellent vegetable stew — completely without lamb.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the performance begins, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert to get in the mood for the show. After the performance, children can try out the instruments they saw and especially heard during the show together with the musicians.

Sold out!

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
3/13/2026 at 11:30 AM / Aachen

after the book of the same name by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy, and Therese Hochhuth in German

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb stands at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when your dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump into your arms? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, capped off with an excellent vegetable stew — without any lamb at all.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the start of the performance, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert and get into the mood for the performance. After the show, the children can try out the instruments they saw and, above all, heard during the performance together with the musicians.

2. Sitzkissenkonzert
3/13/2026 at 10:00 AM / Aachen

after the book of the same name by Steve Smallman, Joëlle Dreidemy, and Therese Hochhuth in German

The hungry wolf is just preparing his traditional stew recipe when suddenly a lamb stands at his door. The wolf gets all flustered: What to do when your dinner smiles sweetly at you and wants to jump into your arms? A beautiful story about friendship and responsibility, capped off with an excellent vegetable stew — without any lamb at all.

What is a Sitzkissenkonzert?
A Sitzkissenkonzert lasts about half an hour. 30 minutes before the start of the performance, children are invited to draw or craft on the theme of the respective Sitzkissenkonzert and get into the mood for the performance. After the show, the children can try out the instruments they saw and, above all, heard during the performance together with the musicians.

Frankenstein
3/14/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Frankenstein
based on the novel by Mary Shelley
For ages 14 and up

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. Tech companies and governments are pumping billions into this promising key technology of the future. It is expected to revolutionize practically all areas of human life. Yet the idea at its core is not new: In 1816, Mary Shelley had her Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein create an artificial intelligence – his famous monster has been wandering through pop culture for over 200 years. Like today’s "Large Language Models" (e.g., ChatGPT), it learns through observation and imitation. Its clumsy brutality touches and terrifies us, just as AI simultaneously provokes both euphoria and apocalyptic fear. But what if these two reaction patterns are not even contradictory: Is the yearning for self-annihilation perhaps at the root of our inventive desire? Are we willingly replacing ourselves with a new, better form of existence – more rational and less destructive than the outdated human species?
In his playful reinterpretation, director Tristan Linder connects Mary Shelley’s classic with current technological debates, employing the very tools that are also the subject of the discussion. An evening of theater that navigates between science fiction and creation myth, between hope and fear.

Sold Out!

2044. Chronik der Zukunft
3/14/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Social Fiction by Gernot Grünewald & Ensemble
World Premiere - For everyone aged 14 and up

Aachen in the year 2044. After the National Alliance for Germany (NAfD) became the strongest force in the federal elections in 2029, democracy has been gradually abolished and an authoritarian regime has been established. Freedom of expression no longer exists, art production is under state control, daily "denationalizations" of people who cannot provide a German "genealogy certificate" take place, and digital surveillance is omnipresent.

Inspired by the podcast "2044. Chronik einer verlorenen Zukunft" by Norman Schäfer, the director and ensemble are developing a new piece that looks from the future to our present and examines, through a group of people, how action is possible in an authoritarian state and how we can prevent this future scenario. A teacher, a police officer, a reporter, an expelled detainee on the run, an artist in resistance, and a scientist from RWTH Aachen experience a world that has fallen out of balance. Gernot Grünewald has made a name for himself with documentary theater projects and has directed at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schauspiel Stuttgart, and at the Munich Kammerspiele.

Johannes-Passion
3/15/2026 at 5:00 PM / Aachen

World premiere

Together with the Theater Aachen, the schrit_tmacher Festival presents an extraordinary co-production: the “Johannes-Passion”. Johann Sebastian Bach unleashes the full emotional power of the Gospel of John here – dramatic, touching, timeless. It is not just about the biblical story, but about being human itself. Choreographer Guillaume Hulot, former ballet master of the Gauthier Dance Company at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, was seen during his professional dance career in choreographies by George Balanchine, William Forsythe, and Jirí Kylián. Under the direction of Olivia Fuchs, Hulot and his ensemble add an impressive contemporary layer of movement to Bach's timeless music.

© Guillaume Hulot, Olivia Fuchs / Photo: Matthias Baus

Die gefährdete Demokratie
3/16/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

"100 percent human dignity. Together against racism and right-wing extremism" is the motto of the International Weeks Against Racism in 2026. But what does that mean in the present? Because not only in Germany are the extreme right achieving electoral successes, racist and anti-Semitic messages are being spread via social media, or queer communities are being attacked. How is the "rightward shift" currently manifesting in Germany? How polarized is the public on the contentious issues of the Republic? What causes are there for the success of the extreme right? And what democratic responses exist for politics and civil society?

With: Ann-Katrin Müller

Short bio:
Ann-Katrin Müller is an editor at the news magazine Der Spiegel and an expert on the extreme right in Germany.

Tickets can only be booked in advance at the theater box office Tel. 0241-4784-244 or theaterkasse@mail.aachen.de

Eugen Onegin
3/17/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Lyrical scenes in three acts by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Text by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin

In Russian with German surtitles

After a sleepless night reading Pushkin's novel "Eugene Onegin," the concept for Tchaikovsky's new opera was born: "I seek an intimate yet powerful drama based on conflicts that I have experienced or seen, which can touch me deeply." Tchaikovsky transforms the novel into a lyrical chamber play, where unbridled love, sharp rejection, and a deadly duel shake the emotional worlds of young people: The young Tatiana, lost in her books, falls head over heels in love with the reckless Onegin. In a passionate letter, she confesses her love to him. However, he coldly rejects her, instead indulging in her sister Olga and killing his good friend Lenski in a duel. After years of wandering, Onegin realizes his missed opportunity. Is there a way back?

Director Verena Stoiber explores in her first work at the Theater Aachen this profound kaleidoscope of "real" people, whose love is rendered impossible by missed chances, bad timing, and youthful recklessness with deadly consequences.

Mysteryland
3/17/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Mysteryland
by Sarah Kilter
World premiere / Commissioned work

In the "Navel," people live like in an amusement park with roller coasters, cotton candy, and mascots – while on the other side of the wall that confines this paradise, in the "Outskirts," precarious conditions and poverty prevail.
Regularly, people from the "Outskirts" are drawn to the "Navel," also to provide a better life for their families. The father of "She," the protagonist of this play, once left his family to work in the "Navel" – and did not return. Years later, "She" is grown up and follows in his footsteps. She hasn't spoken her native language from the "Outskirts" for a long time anyway. In the "Navel," there is work, roller coasters, maybe a future...
Sarah Kilter's new play "Mysteryland," created for the Theater Aachen, plays with a special allegory of a harsh reality. In the critics' survey of the specialist magazine "Theater heute," the author was nominated as the emerging playwright of the year. Her play "White Passing" was shown at the playwrights' theater days at the German Theater Berlin and was nominated for the Mülheimer Dramatikpreis. Most recently, her play "Von Wunden und Wundern" premiered at the Schauspiel Leipzig.

Unser Deutschlandmärchen - Wiederaufnahme
3/18/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

after the novel by Dinçer Güçyeter

In Dinçer Güçyeter's novel "Unser Deutschlandmärchen," two generations of women – mother and grandmother – speak, along with the son of Fatma, who came to Nettetal in 1965 as the wife of a Turkish guest worker. Through vivid imagery, poetry, monologues, dialogues, prayers, and dreams, the novel tells of hard work and great strength, of old role models and the departure into the new, of uprooting and longing.

"Director Antigone Akgün has staged a loving evening that works so well precisely because it does not accuse offensively, but instead lays a melancholy beneath the cheerfulness that speaks for itself. It operates on many levels: as a tribute to overworked women, as a mirror of a paternalistic host country, as a historical tutoring lesson, and as a story of empowerment – but also as a brilliantly performed, sparkling, and deeply moving evening. May it remain on the schedule for a long time." ↦ nachtkritik.de

KammerJazz
3/19/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

After 15 years in Cologne, pianist and composer Constantin Krahmer moved to Rostock in November 2021. There, he has taken a teaching position for piano at the HMT and has established the international concert series Bron, in which he invites musicians for concerts in Rostock (e.g. Thomas Morgan, Peter Bruun, Zola Mennenöh, Luise Volkmann, Carlos Bica, and many more). Additionally, he is a very active sideman (Maik Krahl Quartett, Ampair:e, Zuzana Leharova Quartett, etc.) and writes music for his own ensembles: After the album Close Up, released in February 2022, he released his trio debut album Care in 2024 with Thomas Morgan (b) and Leif Berger (dr). The septet is his current project, for which he is currently on release tour for the album Visions Fugitives (released on March 28, 2025, by Yew Records). He says about the album:
”Up until now, I have always composed for smaller bands, trio, quartet, quintet, but somehow I have been eager for a while to compose for a medium-sized ensemble. Something that is not yet a "Large Ensemble" or a smaller big band, but where all musicians can still significantly influence the music. Four wind instruments, for example, can create great colors and textures together, and at the same time, the lineup is still manageable, and everyone can react spontaneously. And that is very important to me: I want to give my fellow musicians maximum freedom; my compositions should serve as a reservoir of notation text, melodies, multi-voiced passages, ideas, etc., from which all participants can draw and make decisions about in the moment. Or they have other good ideas that I wouldn't have thought of, and I certainly don’t want to restrict that!"

“With Visions Fugitives, Constantin Krahmer joins the group of jazz composers who have a sense for a good balance of improvisation/composition, heart/mind, and consonance/dissonance. Music that is enjoyable to listen to, that inspires, and that surprises. Additionally, the band is truly outstanding in its lineup!”

Nils Wogram, jazz trombonist

"Constantin Krahmer's septet album Visions Fugitives is an art gallery for the ears, conceived, composed, and curated by a master of sound color symbolism and translated into acoustic imagery by seven painters with distinct brushwork and clearly defined color commitment."

Wolf Kampmann, jazz journalist

VORTEX
3/20/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

“VORTEX” is the new dance production by Julia Robert & Rudi Cole, whose pieces have already been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Grec Festival Barcelona, at Sadler’s Wells London, SIDance Seoul, CINARS Canada, and the Loja International Festival in Ecuador. Their powerful new production demonstrates how we humans can activate deep reserves of untapped resilience within ourselves to adapt, transform, and evolve in any apparent chaos. The boundaries between body and energy dissolve and channel the cyclical forces that shape our existence.

© Humanhood Dance Company / Photo: Thomas Vilhelm

Frankenstein
3/20/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Frankenstein
based on the novel by Mary Shelley
For ages 14 and up

Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. Tech companies and governments are pumping billions into this promising key technology of the future. It is expected to revolutionize practically all areas of human life. Yet the idea at its core is not new: In 1816, Mary Shelley had her Swiss scientist Victor Frankenstein create an artificial intelligence – his famous monster has been wandering through pop culture for over 200 years. Like today’s "Large Language Models" (e.g., ChatGPT), it learns through observation and imitation. Its clumsy brutality touches and terrifies us, just as AI simultaneously provokes both euphoria and apocalyptic fear. But what if these two reaction patterns are not even contradictory: Is the yearning for self-annihilation perhaps at the root of our inventive desire? Are we willingly replacing ourselves with a new, better form of existence – more rational and less destructive than the outdated human species?
In his playful reinterpretation, director Tristan Linder connects Mary Shelley’s classic with current technological debates, employing the very tools that are also the subject of the discussion. An evening of theater that navigates between science fiction and creation myth, between hope and fear.

Sold Out!

VORTEX
3/21/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

“VORTEX” is the new dance production by Julia Robert & Rudi Cole, whose pieces have already been shown at the Venice Biennale, the Grec Festival Barcelona, at Sadler’s Wells London, SIDance Seoul, CINARS Canada, and the Loja International Festival in Ecuador. Their powerful new production demonstrates how we humans can activate deep reserves of untapped resilience within ourselves to adapt, transform, and evolve in any apparent chaos. The boundaries between body and energy dissolve and channel the cyclical forces that shape our existence.

© Humanhood Dance Company / Photo: Thomas Vilhelm

Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn - Wiederaufnahme
3/22/2026 at 5:00 PM / Aachen

Musical theater piece about attitude and resistance
by Florian Fischer and Kerstin Grübmeyer
with music by Malcolm Kemp

What motivates people to resist a violent regime and to put up resistance? And how does solidarity transcend ideological boundaries and class differences? In times of a global shift to the right, engaging with antifascist resistance is highly relevant – and looking into the past is necessary and productive. The Theater Aachen therefore addresses this topic with this piece, which also reflects on the city's local history during the Nazi regime. "Oppenhoff. Mohren. Cohn" is a poetic-political reflection on resistance and what enables it, as well as a contribution to the city's culture of remembrance.

L’elisir d’amore - Der Liebestrank
3/24/2026 at 7:00 PM / Aachen

Melodrama giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Felice Romani based on Eugène Scribe

In Italian with German surtitles

The enthusiastic Nemorino loves Adina. Hopelessly. Because she seems to have eyes only for the boastful Belcore. And anyway, Adina prefers to live free and unbound. A magic potion is needed to make the other person fall in love. How convenient that the wonderful doctor Dulcamara has a remedy for everything and that Nemorino is convinced to buy a love potion for his already meager money. As it turns out, it is just an ordinary red wine hidden behind it.
And Adina appears rather irritated by the tipsy, self-confident Nemorino. Even more love potion should finally bind her to him. But Adina has long seen through Nemorino and knows a better remedy...
Donizetti's cheerful love story, filled with detours, delights not only with a phony love potion but also with its heartfelt melodies, playful rhythms, and nimble coloraturas, which Joan Anton Rechi, the director of the Aachen successful production "Sweeney Todd," skillfully and playfully brings to the stage with the ensemble.

Rhino
3/27/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Germany Premiere

“Rhino” features an unusual constellation of characters, beyond their prime, questioning whether their best days are behind them. A balancing act between comedy and tragedy, focusing on what is essential for survival over time and the looming extinction of our dreams. Founded by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond, Out Innerspace, recognized as Associate Artist of Agora de la Danse and strongly shaped by the long-standing collaboration with exceptional choreographer Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot), is among the best and most innovative dance companies in Canada.

© Out Innerspace Dance Theatre / Photo: Mark Kelly

Rhino
3/28/2026 at 8:00 PM / Aachen

Germany Premiere

“Rhino” features an unusual constellation of characters, beyond their prime, questioning whether their best days are behind them. A balancing act between comedy and tragedy, focusing on what is essential for survival over time and the looming extinction of our dreams. Founded by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond, Out Innerspace, recognized as Associate Artist of Agora de la Danse and strongly shaped by the long-standing collaboration with exceptional choreographer Crystal Pite (Kidd Pivot), is among the best and most innovative dance companies in Canada.

© Out Innerspace Dance Theatre / Photo: Mark Kelly

Object and Physical Theatre / Dance workshop
3/28/2026 at 11:00 AM / Aachen

Open level, no experience necessary

Meeting point: Artist entrance / Gate, left side of the theater

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