"The little witch who couldn't be angry" (original title: A Bruxinha que era boa - 1958) by Brazilian author Maria Clara Machado was an en-suite Christmas project for children at the Volksbühne in December 1985. The little witch rosemary is different from the other witch students. She has blond-golden hair and can not be really mean, as it would be for a first class witch. So she falls through the witch test and does not win the missile broomstick she longed for. When she then gave the lumberjack Peter against the order of Prince Otterngift III. Doing good is locked in the pitch tower.
Albert Wendt is a German children's book author, whose plays "My thick coat" and "Princess petite feet and the seven elephants" were premiered on the Berlin Volksbühne in 1982. (Source: Wikipedia) Princess Zartfuß (petite feet), very corpulent, and her husband, Dr. Ing. Mäusel, are traveling in the volcanic mountains when the road is blocked by a boulder. Even a circus with seven elephants, a conductor and a crane driver are stuck. Princess Zartfuß has the crazy idea to hoist the elephants on the rocks and have them dance for a homemade concert.
The Russian writer and war correspondent wrote about this play himself: I am not scared by terms such as "romance novel" or even "novel about a love of war" or "love in wartime". The title of my recently published novel testifies to this: the so-called private life. Of course there is a polemical undertone in this title, because at that time you simply cannot imagine a personal life without war, a life detached from the events. (Source: ZVAB)
https://volksbuehne.adk.de/deutsch/volksbuehne/archiv/spielzeitchronik/1980_bis_1990/index.html
The German small-town is a comedy in four acts by August von Kotzebue, which deals with the petty-bourgeois world. The mayor of the town of Krähwinkel wants to marry his daughter Sabine to the construction, mountain and route inspector substitute Sperling. The daughter, who had previously spent a year in the city of residence, met a gentleman there (Mr. Karl Olmers), of whom she is very impressed. Under no circumstances does she want to be married to Sperling because Olmers and Sabine want to get married. Shortly before the engagement with Sperling, said Mr.
Handbetrieb (Manual Operation) is a play by the Polish-born writer Paul Grazik from 1976, which was premiered in the Volksbühne in the same year. The piece shows the contradictory nature of the political and economic goals with outdated machines, which makes it impossible to achieve these goals. Through their own fears of existence, the workers are persuaded to continuously improve the results towards those responsible.
Tóték (The Toth Family) is a play by Hungarian writer István György Örkény from 1967. Adaptation and toleration up to self-abandonment? Fire chief Tót and his family in the idyllic mountain village practice this in the deceptive hope of saving the son's life at the front. A nervously ill commander, on vacation on vacation in the Tóts' house, forced the family to do senseless mechanical work on a cardboard cutting machine. The Tóts take a long time. Until the subjugation masochism changes and leads to the tormentor being dismembered. In four equal parts. (Source: theatertexte.de)
Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at Munich University, in response to the expressionist drama The Loner (Der Einsame) by the soon-to-become-Nazi dramatist Hanns Johst. The play is written in a form of heightened prose and includes four songs and an introductory choral hymn ("Hymn of Baal the Great"), set to melodies composed by Brecht himself.
The basis of the piece is the show character, a benefit gala for two asylum seekers whose home accommodation has been burned down. The stage design is determined by a large, rotating show staircase in the middle of the stage, a standing desk with microphone and a talk show on the left and right edge of the tried and tested seating group, each of which is illuminated by cones of light. (Source: schlingensief.com)
https://www.schlingensief.com/projekt.php?id=t001
https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13680785.html