When does the performance take place?

The performance takes place on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 19:00.

Where will Faust be performed?

The performance will take place at the Old Cinema Franklin of the National Theater Mannheim, Abraham-Lincoln-Allee 1, 68309 Mannheim.

How long does the performance last?

The performance lasts 2 hours and 15 minutes, including an intermission.

In which language will it be performed?

The performance will be presented in German and with a translation into Easy Language.

What special contents and effects are there?

The production includes loud music, shouts, sounds, moving video projections, fog, and the appearance of an actress in the audience space.

Who created the production?

The adaptation was created by Daniel Cremer and Mascha Luttmann. Daniel Cremer directs; the translation into Easy Language was made with Tina Lackner.

Faust in Easy Language: Goethe's tragedy becomes an immediate stage experience

Name: Faust
Start: 2026-10-15T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-15T21:15:00+02:00
Location: Altes Kino Franklin

Goethe's Faust read anew: understandable, immediate, and full of stage power

On October 15, 2026, the National Theater Mannheim will bring Goethe's classic Faust to the stage at the Old Cinema Franklin in Easy Language. The production makes the tragedy about the quest for knowledge, seduction, and responsibility accessible to a wide audience, without losing its philosophical tension.

A classic between knowledge and temptation

Faust has spent his life with books and yet feels a deep emptiness. Only the encounter with Mephistopheles sets the action in motion: The old scholar longs for experience, pleasure, and a broader understanding of the world. The bet between good and evil leads him to Gretchen and into a story that to this day raises questions about freedom, guilt, and human excess.

Easy Language as a dramatic opening

The adaptation by Daniel Cremer and Mascha Luttmann, translated by Daniel Cremer and Tina Lackner, employs a barrier-free language form. This does not create a simplified image of the original, but an independent access to Goethe's material. Pointed dialogues, clear situations, and frequently audible verses combine comprehensibility with literary sound.

Body, light, and moving images

The production focuses on intensive physical work, precise acting skills, and an atmospherically dense stage language. Loud music, shouts, sounds, moving video projections, and fog intensify the theater atmosphere. An actress steps into the audience space, consciously breaking the boundary between stage and spectator area.

A celebrated production at the Old Cinema Franklin

The direction by Daniel Cremer, the set design and costume by Carolin Gieszner, the lighting by Wolfgang Schüle, and the music by Oscar Marie Le Merle shape a sensory stage experience. Critical voices praised the craft of precise, scenically functional, and atmospherically dense work. Theater today described the adaptation as an independent simplification artwork with pointed dialogues and its own aesthetics.

Conclusion: Experience Faust live

This performance connects great theater history with contemporary mediation. The audience can expect an accessible, physical, and thought-provoking stage experience about longing, knowledge, and the consequences of human decisions. Those who want to rediscover Goethe's Faust will experience a production at the Old Cinema Franklin that does not pit clarity against depth.