Frank Castorf

Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019)

Frank Castorf has adapted Racine and combined this material with texts by Artaud. His art of theatrical and vital immoderation explores how, when it comes to this classical French author, the tragedy of existence is born from collusions between private pas ...

Janáček: From the House of the Dead (2018)

Stage director Frank Castorf "might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead" (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking adaptation brings bold modern and postmodern touches to Janáček's masterwork without ever overshadowing the intense forw ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: Twilight of the Gods (2016)

"Oil is the equivalent of what used to be gold. A luxury that we cannot eat," explained director Frank Castorf in an interview, outlining one of the key ideas behind his production of the Ring at Bayreuth. In the final part of the tetralogy, the wild journ ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: Siegfried (2016)

Frank Castorf's Ring makes a feature of unexpected settings and striking images, and here in Siegfried he shows the discussions between the young hero and his foster father Mime in Act I against a background featuring giant heads of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Valkyrie (2016)

The new Bayreuth production of the Ring Cycle that premiered in 2013 offered spectacular sets, courtesy of Aleksandar Denić. As is regularly the case in Frank Castorf's productions, live video recordings add an extra dimension and in this performance Die ...

The Ring of the Nibelung: The Rhinegold (2016)

Frank Castorf revolutionised German-language theatre in the post-Berlin Wall era, bringing to the stage intellectual and political acuteness, brash references and a not infrequent use of crude humour. He brought these qualities to the Bayreuth Festival whe ...

Der Idiot (2006)

Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion. ...

Demons (2000)

In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-pan ...

Dirty Hands (1999)

A political drama about the assassination of a leading politician. When Hugo comes out of jail, the Communist party has embarrassingly swung in a new direction, namely Hoederer's line. Now Hugo must die. ...

Des Teufels General (1997)

"The Devil's General" - A post war Germany pick up the involuntarily knowledge about the "black hole" of the 1950s. ...

Alkestis (1993)

Wonders in the Suburbs (2020)

Political rivals try to sabotage a new mayor and her eccentric plans for an underprivileged French municipality. ...

Does all this make any sense? And if so - why does it take so long? (2019)

For a quarter of a century, Frank Castorf has created a microcosm in the Volksbühne that many considered to be an identity-forming fortress and a renegade island in the increasingly chic and monotonous centre of the capital. The marathon productions for w ...

Partisan (2018)

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms in reunited Berlin. Shortly after the fall of the Wall, rebel director Frank Castorf was appointed artistic director of the Volksbühne. His way of working ...

Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee (2013)

A lifeguard at Lake Müggel has his hand bitten off and the marks indicate a shark attack. The lake is closed to the public by extending a local festival indefinitely while the city council thinks of what can be done to remove the shark. The public becomes ...

Monte Klamotte - Eine Expedition zum Berliner Schuldenberg (2005)

The capital Berlin is heavily in debt. Annually it takes 16 billion euros, but gives out 20 billion. The minus is covered by loans, which in turn attract interest. ...

Männerpension (1996)

A support program brings the two convicts Gerd and Steinbock into the care of women. There they are supposed to prove that they are capable of integrating into society. Now Gerd stupidly kills a bar owner. This puts an end to their excursion into freedom f ...