Spielzeiteröffnung 2025/26

Three years ago, Kampnagel celebrated its anniversary, “40 years of resistance” and “40 years of State of the Arts”. The coming season will be the last Kampnagel season as we knew it – after which a major and necessary multi-year remodelling and refurbishment process will begin. By incorporating the ideas of many artists and Kampnagel employees, the vision of a production house for the next 40 years will be realised, one that retains its attitude, one that does not drive out the ghosts, thinks about its own history and inscribes it into its own future. In the coming season, we want to make the strengthening connection between past and future tangible. To remember and value the past without conservatism. To be forward-looking without forgetting. A culture of remembrance must always also deal with the future, legends can also be told with a view to the future – and thus form the decisive difference to right-wing narratives, which in the 80th year after the end of the Second World War are more than ever persistently trying to tell other stories. The upcoming season is dedicated to the legends of the avant-garde, the traditions of the progressive and an anti-fascist canon in various forms. We see ‘Rewrite, reclaim, resist!’ as a challenge and demand to the artists and also as an expression of our responsibility towards them. Take part!