Photo: Kundry Rymon, Graphic: Dorian Bollmann

Guest theatre Ba-Ta-Clan

Performance of an “Offenbachiade” in the spirit of Hanns Eisler

Four Eisler students present their production to mark the 75th anniversary of the Berlin University of the Arts and reflect on the controversies that arose during rehearsals.

Rehearsals for the performance of the operetta “BaTaClan” transport the four vocal students back to the emancipatory struggles of the 19th century. In the process, shifting through the eras changes their perspective on the piece and confronts the performers with themselves: they find themselves in similar identity crises as their characters. In this way, they grapple with persistent gender roles, conflicts over abuse of power, and questions about their studies and careers. And they reflect on their personal aspirations between tradition and modernity in musical theater.

Composition: Jacques Offenbach
Libretto: Ludovic Halévy
Musical adaptation: Tristan Breitenbach
Book and German lyrics: Jan Rymon

Prelude and song “Change the World,
It Needs It” from The Measures Taken
Music: Hanns Eisler, Text: Bertolt Brecht

Conductor: Fanye Yuan
Director and Project Lead: Kundry Rymon
Set and Costume Design: Frida Caldwell
Choreographic Collaboration: Birgit Bollmann
Assistant Director: Anna Leonhardt

Student / Princess (Soprano): Sara Wijlaars
Student / Emperor (Soprano): Nelly Thimet
Student / Mandarin (Tenor): Ondrej Benek
Student / General (Baritone): Quirin Scholz

Repetiteurs: Minkyung Kim, Ronald Herold

Oboe: Jaclyn Nam
Bassoon: Helene Lorenz
Horn: Yonghan Jiao
Trombone: Ludvig Forslund
Piano: Minkyung Kim
Percussion: Jannis Demmig
Violin: Rurika Kitahara
Cello: Clara Schmidek

With sincere thanks to the Costume Department of the Deutsche Oper Berlin for their generous support.

If you are coming in a wheelchair or have limited mobility, please send an email to kultur@stw.berlin before the event so that we can open the accessible entrance and elevator.

Date

09 April 2026 (Thu)

Time

07:00 PM to 09:00 PM

Category

  • Bühne & Musik
  • Kultur

Participation Fee

free of charge

Host

studierendenWERK Berlin

Location

FREIRAUM im Studentenhaus
Hardenbergstraße 35
10623 Berlin

Arrival:

Underground railway: U9 (Zoologischer Garten), U2 (Ernst-Reuter-Platz)
Suburban railway: S3, S5, S7 and S9 (Zoologischer Garten)
Bus: 245 and M45 (Steinplatz)

Barrier-free access:

Barrier-free access via the lift is only possible when accompanied by a member of our staff and via the rear entrance.
Please contact us in advance by email at kultur@stw.berlin.
Barrier-free toilets are available.
The stage in the Freiraum is fully accessible.

Please note: Access may occasionally not be barrier-free if the lift is out of order.

Language

Veranstaltungssprache: Deutsch

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