Welcome to the Tischlerei!
In a former lifetime the Tischlerei was the workshop of the Deutsche Oper Berlin; now it is a space for experimental performances and installations, world premieres and works in progress. We embrace crossover, blend pop, rock, fine art, avant-garde and opera and explore themes centring on ‘the stranger’ and otherness in general. This regularly involves contacts between cultures leading to the generation of new forms of musical theatre. You are cordially invited to witness all these encounters close at hand ... Let us surprise you, Yours Dorothea Hartmann [Artistic Director, Tischlerei]
Welcome
9 - 14 September 2022
3rd Jazz Festival
The BigBand of the Deutsche Oper Berlin presents six jazz concerts of a special kind on the parking deck and in the Tischlerei: with readings, dance, film or drama. With music by Cole Porter and George Gershwin, they travel to Broadway, only to devote themselves to songs by Prince or James Brown one day later at the Funky Dance Night. A tribute to Ella Fitzgerald is on the programme as well as a soul journey to Ray Charles or Michael Jackson. Guests such as Atrin Madani, Pat Appleton, Storm, Mette Nadja Hansen, Imogen Kogge or Worthy Davis will be part of the party. There are also two concerts for children again: "The Ballad of Robin Hood" takes you deep into the forests of Nottinghamshire, where it searches for and finds the legendary champion of justice beyond the traditional mainstream. Next Performances 
29, 31 Oct; 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 Nov. 2022
Negar
Tehran 2022: French director Marie-Ève Signeyrole and Iranian-French composer Keyvan Chemirani immerse themselves in a world full of ambiguities and write a work about a love in the underground, a love as an act of resistance against the regime and the prevailing morality ... Directed by Marie-Ève Signeyrole; With Katarina Bradić, Arianna Manganello, Dean Murphy, Golnar Shahyar, Julian Arsenault, Keyvan Chemirani and friends
10 September 2022
Playground: A band festival in the carpentry workshop and scenery magazine
From an intimate concert experience to a rave, everything is possible: whether techno is played on acoustic instruments, experimental instrumentations are used or styles such as rock, indie, pop and electronic music are merged with relish ... With Komfortrauschen, LBT, ROSEMARINE, Ameli Paul, Katzenohr, Ralph Heidel
Family concert: 11 Sep. / School concert: 12 Sep.
A storytelling concert for everyone from 6: The Ballad of Robin Hood
Composer Martin Auer, reciter Simon Jäger and the "wild jazz orchestra" search for the legendary champion of justice beyond the traditional mainstream. Let's go to Nottinghamshire.
18 performances from 4 Dec. 2022 to 26 Jan. 2023
A road movie for everyone from 8: The Snow Queen
Kay is gone. From one moment to the next he has changed, is mean and hurtful - his best friend Gerda sets out and is ultimately able to free him from the Snow Queen's ice palace. Andersen's well-known fairy tale is transformed into a road movie with lots of wit and pace for everyone aged 8 and up ... Directed by Brigitte Dethier; With Sophia Körber, Alexandra Ionis, Martin Gerke, Hanna Plaß, Jone Bolibar Núñez, Louise Leverd, Jack Adler-McKean, Henriette Zahn, Daniel Eichholz
3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, March 2023
Karaoper: A karaoke opera film performance by Chez Company for children aged 8+.
What if we could change the world? A future with fun, with clean seas and crystal clear blue skies, a world where justice prevails, where we can still travel and be with others from other countries ...? In the specially invented KARAOPER we want to dream together with children. The KARAOPER is an opera film that first gets its direction through karaoke - through singing and speaking. A wild community that playfully jumps to the next level by setting the right tone ...
21, 22, 24, 27 April 2023
New Scenes VI
The competition, organised as a collaboration between the Deutsche Oper and the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, was and is primarily intended as a laboratory for the future. It is explicitly aimed at teams of composers and authors. The three new music theatre works of approximately 30 minutes in length are created with students of the Hanns Eisler Academy, who stage, play and sing them.
21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30 June; 1 July 2023
Bear
The starting point of the experimental music theatre is Nastassja Martin's novel "Believing in the Wild": on a research trip in the Siberian wilderness, the anthropologist encounters a bear that bites her in the face and seriously injures her: This is the beginning of a transformation: the boundaries blur, she is half human, half bear - an in-between being in which worlds implode. The multi-perspective evening links Nastassja Martin's narrative and Berlin city history from the bear's point of view into a dense compositional web. BÄR*IN is a hybrid evening about metamorphoses and an invitation to consider our world as a structure in which not only humans are active agents ... Production: Franziska AngererOur video recommendations
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Bernhard Gander: Lieder von Vertreibung ...
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Andrej Koroliov: Die Vorüberlaufenden
video - 02:36 min.
Once to be realised: Sechs Begegnungen mit ...
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Chez Company: The Making of Blond
Topics
Negar, from 29 October 2022
Between Teheran, Paris and Berlin
NEGAR is the story of a woman, Shirin, who, after many years spent living in Paris, returns to Iran and realises that her home has changed. She falls in love with a man and a woman, and the love triangle has dramatic repercussions
Playground Festival on 10 September 2022
Rave at the opera
At the Playground Festival, six bands show how playfully and openly jazz, techno, and pop can interact over the span of one evening. Tip: Risk of urge to dance – wear flat shoes
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