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Thursday, 10/1/2026
at 7:30 PM



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CAFÉ ZUM ROTEN HERING

And yet it still stands! Our traditional café weathered two world wars and stands strong as ever. As the only building in this district, it miraculously survived the heavy bombardment almost unscathed. We invite you to linger in one of the few remaining oases of coziness and indulge in our cakes.

In war, the truth dies first. The storyteller Theo, Moritz, a former soldier, and Lily, an actress with a dark past, escape the confines of home and reality by dreaming of the "Café zum Roten Hering" – a place where the world is still in order and the dutiful waiter Josef serves day and night.

But fate has decided to strike and together with the truth, to experiment with humanity. This brings the whole world out of joint, and the boundaries between absurd reality and dreadful dreams increasingly blur.

Theo tries to create a hero through his story about the private detective Commissario, a person who always has everything under control – a person who gives him a purpose again after the war. But his story slips away from him, and he is confronted with events and fears from his past life.

With: Hannah Ankenbrand, Valentin Beran, Johannes Krickl, Patrik Meidlinger, and Sebastian Merkl
Direction and play: Sebastian Merkl

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