Rebels with a cause

January stage roundup in ExBerliner magazine Matthias Brandt in ‘Mein Name sei Gantenbein’ at the Berliner Ensemble. Photograph: Andi Weiland Alienation and raging against the machine has been a virulent reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic. A number of shows...

Hit me, baby, one more time

A new show created by writer Lena Brasch and actor Sina Martens focuses on the Britney Spears in all of us – interview in ExBerliner magazine Actor Sina Martens and writer/director Lena Brasch, creators of ‘It’s Britney, Bitch!’ at the Berliner...

Turmoil in Thuringia

Image tweeted by die Linke leader in Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow: “Hold your head up, not your hands!” With the shock election of a minority party member to the position of minister president of Thuringia with the help of the AfD, Germany’s political landscape...

Mysterious crossbow killings in Bavaria

Police are baffled at a spate of macabre deaths in the historic and otherwise peaceful city of Passau Screenshot from Süddeutsche Zeitung’s website A CRIME in the Bavarian city of Passau has horrified as much as mystified the police – and the general...

Playing around on the radio

Recording a drama for the airwaves is exciting – even more so when it’s your own script Actors Darragh Kelly, Sarah O’Rourke, Ali White and Lloyd Cooney discuss a scene at Near FM recording studio. Photograph: Christine Madden “WHICH MICS are we...