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Ruhrfestspiele 2025

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Szene aus William Kentridges "The great yes the great no". Foto: Monika Rittershaus

Under the motto "Doubt and Solidarity," the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen will showcase 220 events with 620 artists from May 1 to June 8. Here are our tips.

Szene aus "ZACK" mit Wolfram Koch. Foto: Astrid Karger

Ruhrfestspiele 2025

01.05.2025 - 22.06.2025

The Green Hill of the Ruhr area attracts visitors to Recklinghausen when from May 1 to June 22, the Ruhr Festival offers a mix of theater, dance, readings, and new circus. Our schedule overview.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Waiting for Godot

The Ruhrfestspiele are opened with Samuel Beckett's classic of absurd theater. In the production by the Berliner Ensemble, Matthias Brandt and Paul Herwig play the leading roles.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: The Mouth Organ Project

An evening for singing along and laughing together is to be had - with the small, red booklet at the center of the Ruhrfestspiele: the mouth organ.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Guru Dudu - Silent Disco Walking Tour

Danced away - through Recklinghausen. The colorful Australian Guru Dudu and his "Silent Disco Walking Tour" are now an integral part of the Ruhrfestspiele program.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Laios - Anthropolis II

In the play, which offers a contemporary perspective on ancient Greek tragedy, Lina Beckmann embodies all roles.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: À Poils: Wild Hair

The piece by the company is called Reviens and begins in an empty room, where only three roadies and their boxes are present. This leads to a surprising encounter with the audience.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Foreign

Katharina Bach, actress of the Munich Kammerspiele, has brought Michel Friedman's text "Fremd" to the stage as a monologue with the director Katrin Lindner.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Dance is not for us

With his production "Beytna," he opened the Ruhrfestspiele in 2019. Now, Omar Rajeh takes the audience on a journey into his autobiographical universe with a solo performance.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Notte Morricone

Ennio Morricone became famous with film scores ("Play Me the Song of Death"). Marcos Morau and the dance company CCN/Aterballetto make his music the subject of a choreography.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Quarter to Night

"We dream with our eyes open," say Melanie Florschütz and Michael Döhnert. And thus, shadows on the walls or curtains fluttering in the wind suddenly transform into fantastic creatures.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Show Pony

What happens to acrobats when they get older and the applause diminishes? The Berlin collective still hungry explores the highs and lows of three stage biographies.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Delusional – I Killed a Man

With her circus solo, Diana Salles creates an intense theater experience. The Brazilian aerial artist takes the audience on the journey of her transition.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Theatre of Dreams

Hofesh Shechter's new dance evening takes the audience into the secret landscapes of our dreams. On stage, 13 dancers unfold a interplay between poetry and reality.

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Carmela de Feo: tall! blonde! successful!

The lady, the most comical "caterpillar" in the German comedy and cabaret scene, as she calls herself, presents her new program: big! blonde! successful!

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Forest

The handstand artists of right way down allow the forest to re-emerge as a living organism on stage.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: Exit

The collective Circumstances, led by Piet Van Dycke, combines circus and dance. In the show, four performers seek an acrobatic way out.

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Ruhrfestspiele 2025: The Great Yes, The Great No

The latest stage work of the South African artist William Kentridge celebrates its German premiere as a co-production of the Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen.

1947: Die Ruhrfestspiele werden gegründet

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1947 - The Ruhrfestspiele are founded

The founding myth of the Ruhrfestspiele is legendary. In the post-war winter, miners send coal to the theater in Hamburg - and receive culture in return.

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In the Portrait: Ruhr Festival House

The building itself dates back to 1965 - but the myth surrounding the festival hall on the Green Hill of Recklinghausen is older: in 1947, miners exchanged art for coal.