Overview
- Theater der Welt will run in Chemnitz from 18 June to 5 July and brings more than 30 international productions to the city.
- The festival will open at the Chemnitz Opera with Tanya Tagaq’s music‑theatre Split Tooth: Saputjiji, which includes Inuit throat singing and centers Indigenous perspectives.
- Programming spans music theatre, drama, performance and puppet theatre and includes works such as the pop‑opera Nkoli, the immersive Blur, the Czech Amadoka, and a German‑Chinese staging of Alfred Döblin’s novel titled Luftmasse with a visual concept by Ai Weiwei.
- The concurrent Begehungen art festival will temporarily transform the long‑vacant Schauspielhaus into a contemporary gallery showing artists including Hito Steyerl, Jana Gunstheimer, Cindy Sherman, Danica Dakić and Martina Pinosa.
- Theater der Welt is a major triennial international theatre festival supported by the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute and Chemnitz is using the event to sustain cultural visibility after its year as European Capital of Culture.