Maxim Gorki Theater

Name: Maxim Gorki Theater
Address: Am Festungsgraben 2, Berlin, 10117, Germany
Telephone: +493020221115

Theater

Opening hours

Monday: 09:00 – 00:00
Tuesday: 09:00 – 00:00
Wednesday: 09:00 – 00:00
Thursday: 09:00 – 00:00
Friday: 09:00 – 00:00
Saturday: 15:30 – 00:00
Sunday: 15:00 – 00:00

Am Festungsgraben 2, 10117 Berlin, Germany

gorki.de

+493020221115

Events

13 events

Free

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UNSPEAKABLE Sittenausstellung

Sun, 23 Aug

An exhibition developed by Udo Kittelmann and Çağla Ilk at the Kronprinzenpalais. It examines how visibility, speech, and artistic freedom are politically shaped, and how quickly they can be destroyed.

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Opening with Sarkis and Tadeusz Kantor

Fri, 4 Sept

The season opens with an encounter between Sarkis and Tadeusz Kantor. In cooperation with the Kantor Museum Cricoteka Kraków, Sarkis transforms the Gorki's stage and auditorium into an installation engaging with Kantor's world.

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Membrane

Fri, 9 Oct

Nicole L'Huillier creates a work engaging with the building itself. Facades, curtains, and surfaces become membranes as the house listens, absorbs sounds, and gives them back.

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IN THE CORPSE OF THE PRESENT - Prince Friedrich von Homburg

Fri, 23 Oct

Marco Fusinato's work after Heinrich von Kleist explores sound, image, duration, intensity, and overload. Kleist's Prince von Homburg becomes a figure suspended between dream and command, state and willfulness, obedience and loss of control.

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Constanza Macras and Dorky Park

Tue, 1 Dec

Constanza Macras and Dorky Park find a new artistic home at the Gorki. The work opens the repertory theater to company structures, dance, performative formats, and alternative modes of production, bringing Berlin onto the stage as a body.

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The Hearing Trumpet

Thu, 3 Dec

Ulrike Ottinger returns to the Berlin stage with Leonora Carrington's story of a ninety-two-year-old woman who enters a retirement home and begins a revolution. The work combines Surrealism, feminist imagination, film history, and theater.

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HELLZAPOPPIN: What about the bees?

Thu, 17 Dec

Presented in cooperation with Performa New York, Yvonne Rainer brings a work shaped by dance, performance, minimalism, feminism, and art history. It asks what a body on stage can do and what it may refuse to do.

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Le Sacre du printemps

Fri, 1 Jan

Göksu Kunak's work explores body, ritual, ecstasy, control, sacrifice, community, and violence, asking how bodies today are politically marked, disciplined, celebrated, or sacrificed.

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Theda Nilsson-Eicke

Mon, 1 Mar

A work about loss, memory, family, and a house that can no longer be entered.

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Leila Hekmat

Thu, 1 Apr

A work combining opera, performance, glamour, stage design, costume, and social abysses in excessive, comic, brutal, and precise forms of analysis.

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Tamer Yiğit

Sat, 1 May

A work turning toward the juvenile detention center Plötzensee and asking questions about guilt, origins, violence, masculinity, the city, and the possibility of another perspective.

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Hiroshima mon amour

Sat, 1 May

Marie Schleef's work turns toward Marguerite Duras, love in the shadow of war, and the traumatized language of the twentieth century, developing a theatrical form from language, body, space, sound, and image.

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Maxim Gorki Theater is an open, transdisciplinary venue connecting theater with contemporary art, performance, dance, music, sound and public discourse. It centers diverse voices and creates space for encounters between local communities, international artists and new forms of storytelling.

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