Chanel 5 – A portrait of Coco Chanel in 5 scenes by and with Jacqueline Fritschi-Cornaz
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
Premiere was on November 16, 2024 at Villa Schönfels near Zurich, all performances are sold out;
Additional performance due to high demand on December 31, 2024 at Belvoirpark in Zurich
#TooUglyForCinderella by and with Irmela Purvis
Director and dramaturgy: Bettina Lohmeyer
World premiere at Theater Baden-Baden on January 19, 2025
Bonobo Moussaka – Volkstheater Rostock
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
Reopening November 21, 2024
“Lise Meitner – Genius in the Shadow of the Nobel Prize Winners”
written and performed by Bettina Schinko
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
Bettina Schinko takes us on a time travel in her solo evening as Lise Meitner: From Vienna in 1901 via Berlin, Stockholm and Washington to post-war Europe. Her love of physics made Professor Meitner take this course. Politics and war did not stop her from asking why until the end of her life and from wanting to understand the world at its innermost core. Lise Meitner once rejected a film adaptation of her life out of modesty – now her life is coming to the stage in Berlin:
The premiere was on March 6, 2020 at the Theaterhaus Berlin.
More shows were performed at Theaterforum Kreuzberg in August 2022. Further shows are in planning for 2025
“Truman Capote: Just Splendid!”
written and performed by Thomas Engel
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
Truman Capote: Just splendid! illustrates the fast-paced rollercoaster ride of a unique career and breathless life, oscillating between great art and merciless crises, extreme loneliness and debauched parties with the who’s who of the international jet set, the comet-like rise of a literary superstar and the dramatic finale of his abysmal fall.
After 2 series of performances in Berlin in 2018 and several guest performances in 2019, further performances are planned for 2025.
“Just Marilyn”
written and performed by Ruth Hornemann
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
Inspired by her diary entries, poems and letters, this theatrical evening delves into Marilyn Monroe’s private world of thoughts and feelings beyond her role as a Hollywood star and sex bomb.
After 2 series of performances in 2018, a resumption is planned for 2025.
“Sean Penn – Unsung Truths”
written and performed by Thilo Herrmann
Director: Bettina Lohmeyer
SEAN PENN – “Unsung Truths” unfolds the unsung sides of a person who struggles with himself all his life and fights for his artistic vision again and again. Thilo Herrmann shows a contradictory character, behind whose rough skin hides an amazingly sensitive man.
After 2 series of performances in 2018, a resumption is planned for 2025.
Directing: 19 monologues for showreels, shooted in August, 2021
Showreel scene Lara Grünfeld / Caroline Pischel