Schedule October 2026 November 2026 December 2026 January 2027 February 2027 March 2027 April 2027 May 2027 June 2027 July 2027
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
Director: Kamila Polívková
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance Lachmesse
gardiZERO
Clowneskes Theater
19:30 — 21:45
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Unfortunately the performance has to be cancelled.
Instead, we’ll perform “Bu sözler bizim—The Words Belong to Us.”
Instead, we’ll perform “Bu sözler bizim—The Words Belong to Us.”
Kitt (UA)
Documentary theatre project by dura & kroesinger
Director: Hans-Werner Kroesinger & Regine Dura
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Director: Ebru Tartıcı Borchers
19:30 — 21:15
Große Bühne
Director: Elsa-Sophie Jach
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
with German sign language
Director: Salome Schneebeli
18:00 — 19:25
Große Bühne
Director: Pia Richter
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 21:30
Große Bühne
Festival opening euro-scene Leipzig
Marie Chouinard! The grande dame of Québec’s dance scene first pays tribute to Bach in a radiant, paradisiacal Baroque ballet. She then transforms Henri Michaux’s ink drawings into vibrant, fluid bodies. An evening of striking contrasts and exceptional artistry.
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:30
Große Bühne
euro-scene Leipzig
17:30 — 18:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:30
Große Bühne
euro-scene Leipzig
No dance form seems as devoted to the cult of youth as hip-hop. But breakers grow older, too. IN MY BODY brings together different generations in a captivating dance of unity, where youthful energy meets experiencewith passion and optimism.
21:30 — 22:45
Residenz
euro-scene Leipzig
Four Syrian theatre artists in exile confront an urgent question: What does it mean to return? Blending memories, humour and music, EXERCISES FOR A POSSIBLE RETURN explores home, identity and a debate thatconcerns Europe as well.
17:30 — 18:45
Residenz
euro-scene Leipzig
Four Syrian theatre artists in exile confront an urgent question: What does it mean to return? Blending memories, humour and music, EXERCISES FOR A POSSIBLE RETURN explores home, identity and a debate thatconcerns Europe as well.
21:30 — 22:20
Diskothek
euro-scene Leipzig
Following their acclaimed guest performance last year, Manuel Roque and Nils Levazeux return to Leipzig to open the festival with a world premiere. Between closeness and distance, beyond gravity and weightlessness, a new form of eternity emerges.
19:30 — 20:40
Große Bühne
Final night euro-scene Leipzig
20:00 — 22:00
Diskothek
Director: Regine Dura & Hans-Werner Kroesinger
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Director: Ebru Tartıcı Borchers
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Der Girschkarten (UA)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
15:00 — 22:00
Große Bühne
Das Vermächtnis
(The Inheritance)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
18:00 — 20:15
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:30
Diskothek
11:00
Foyer 1
Festival Europäische Notenspuren 2026
Ein Besuch im Neuen Leipziger Operettentheater
mit dem Salonorchester Krause
20:00 — 21:10
Diskothek
Kitt (UA)
Documentary theatre project by dura & kroesinger
Director: Hans-Werner Kroesinger & Regine Dura
20:00
Große Bühne
Guest Performance
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Director: Thirza Bruncken
19:30
Foyer 1
20:00
Residenz
Leipzig premiere
Kindheiten
vorschlag:hammer (Duisburg/Berlin/Zürich)
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
Director: Kamila Polívková
20:00
Diskothek
20:00
Residenz
Kindheiten
vorschlag:hammer (Duisburg/Berlin/Zürich)
16:00
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:20
Diskothek
Drive In (UA)
Produktion des Theaterjugendclubs „Sorry, eh!“
Director: Yves Hinrichs
09:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
10:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
19:30 — 20:45
Foyer 1
Revival
„Spieglein, Spieglein, halt's Maul, wir müssen nachdenken“
with texts of Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist
Artistic direction: Ellen Neuser
Ada Berger and Liv Strömquist give a voice to women who consider social expectations – beautiful, ugly, old, young, envious, empathetic, suffering, cheerful, questioning, complex and contradictory women, all played by Paulina Bittner.
09:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer
19:30 — 20:50
Foyer 1
Director: von Lina Wegner
19:30 — 21:05
Foyer 1
Scenic project by Tilo Krügel and Denis Petković
20:00 — 21:55
Diskothek
Studio Production 2026
Director: Katrin Plötner
Director: Katrin Plötner
19:30
Foyer 1
Director: Yves Hinrichs
19:30 — 22:45
Große Bühne
20:00 — 21:45
Diskothek
13:00
Schauspielhaus
36. VISIONALE LEIPZIG
Media Festival & Show with Awards Ceremony
20:00 — 21:40
Diskothek
Commissioned by Schauspiel Leipzig
Der Girschkarten (UA)
Director: Enrico Lübbe
10:00
Große Bühne
Director: Stephan Beer