CABARET

CABARET

The Berlin-Musical

Where it really happened

At a glance

Dates
2 July 02–26 September 2026
Genre
Musical
Pricing

From €25.00 to €74.90
Reduced tickets €20.00

Welcome to the Kit Kat Club right next to the Chancellor’s office! The TIPI AM KANZLERAMT becomes a cabaret, hosting the world-famous musical about life, passion and despair in Berlin under the darkening skies of approaching fascism.

Based on true events and real lives, CABARET portrays the experiences of the English writer Christopher Isherwood, who lived in the Berlin district of Schöneberg from 1929 to 1933, making real life the source of this highly sensual theatrical experience.

The story of the carefree nightclub-singer Sally Bowles in the glittering yet shady milieu of the Golden Twenties immortalised the city of Berlin as the city of historical fractures, caught between glamour and the gutter, between dreams and despair.

Please note that the dialogues are in German language.

Berlin says willkommen as Cabaret comes home! 

This production of CABARET is the work of director and star choreographer Vincent Paterson, who has developed choreographies for Madonna and Michael Jackson as well as for Lars von Trier's Dancer in The Dark.


Director and choreographer: Vincent Paterson
Musical Director of the premiere: Adam Benzwi
Associate for Vincent Paterson: Mette Berggreen
Costume design (2004): Fiona Bennett und Nicole von Graevenitz
Stage design: Momme Röhrbein
Script: Joe Masteroff – after the play “I am a Camera” by John van Druten and the stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music: John Kander 
Song lyrics: Fred Ebb (German texts by Robert Gilbert)

Cast 2025

Sally Bowles: Lara Hofmann · Paulina Plucinski · Linda Rietdorff · Katharina Wollmann (Premiere) 

Clifford Bradshaw: Alexander Donesch  · Volkmar Leif Gilbert · Chris M. Nachtigall · Simon Rusch 

Conférencier: Florian Stanek · Oliver Urbanski

Fräulein Schneider: Regina Lemnitz · Barbara Schnitzler · Kerstin Schweers

Herr Schultz: Helmut Mooshammer ·  Dirk Schoedon

Fräulein Kost: Claudia Graue · Jacqueline Macaulay · Julie Wolff

Ernst Ludwig: Philip Butz · Daniel Sellier · Torsten Stoll · Tobias Wollschläger

Bobby / Matrose: Lukas Baeskow · Christoph Jonas · Julian Quijano · Samuel J. Schaarschmidt

Max / Matrose: Christian Arndt Sanchez · Daniel Sellier

Kit Kat Girls (Helga, Mausi, Lulu und Frenchie): Kiara Brunken · Benedetta D’Onofrio · Michael Fernandez · Sarah Fleige · Lauren Mayer · Julian Quijano · Carolin Schönemann · Tobias Stemmer · Deliah Stuker · Anastasia Troska · Zoe Wolf · Julie Wolff · Marion Wulf


Band

Piano / toy piano / accordion: Jörg Daniel Heinzmann · Johannes Roloff · Ferdinand von Seebach

Violin / singing saw / sailor: Christian Runge

Trombone / steel guitar: Daniel Busch · Christian Fischer · Ludwig Kociok

Double bass / tuba / triangle: Björn Sickert

Drums / glockenspiel / sailor: Caspar Hachfeld · Julian Kirchmer


Creativ team

Artistic direction: Lutz Deisinger
Scenic rehearsal, play & production management: Thimo Pommerening

Musical rehearsal & direction: Jörg Daniel Heinzmann & Johannes Roloff
Choreographic rehearsal & dance captain: Paulina Plucinski

Costume design (since 2005): Stefanie Krimmel
Make-up design: Antonia Hauser

Technical equipment: Dirk Schröder
Light: Sven Herzel
Sound: Danny Selinger

Storyline

In the year 1929 the young American writer Clifford Bradshaw arrives in Berlin, searching for material for his novel. He rents a cheap room in Fräulein Schneider’s boarding house and spends New Year’s Eve in the Kit Kat Club, upon Ernst-Ludwig’s invitation, an acquaintance he made during his journey.

The Kit Kat Club is one of the many temples to pleasure that Berlin had to offer in the 1920s. A place for longings of every kind, where you could live for a moment in the utopia of erotic and political freedom. In the darkness, the faded filament bulbs of the Cabaret turn into a glamorous lustre, which sucks in the restless night wanderers of the metropolis in its glaring red gullet.

Here, a louche MC introduces the attraction of the evening: Fräulein Sally Bowles, an English night club singer. Sally and Cliff quickly get to know one another in the permissive, relaxed atmosphere of the club. She is looking for a place to stay, he is looking for an aim in life and already on the following day she moves in with him – disregarding his views on the matter.

The friendly fruit merchant Herr Shultz also lives in Fräulein Schneider’s boarding house and spoils his landlady with exotic fruit. Just as their tender love story leads to an engagement, Herr Schultz, a Jew, is for the first time confronted with the hatred of the emerging Nazi movement: resigned and afraid, Fräulein Schneider makes a difficult decision regarding their forthcoming wedding ...

Cliff is appalled at the burgeoning Fascism and wants to leave Berlin as soon as possible, with the now pregnant Sally. But, just like the shrill, cynical MC, Sally is uninterested in politics – for her, life is only a Cabaret.

One is travelling through, in flight, in constant fear, and so in the end each packs his bags. Sally gives away her fur coat to pay for an abortion, and returns to the Kit Kat Club. And Cliff, shortly before the Nazis come to power, leaves Berlin. No one as yet knows where the journey will lead to ...

CABARET – Das Berlin-Musical

Life is a musical – the most impressive advert for Berlin there has ever been.

Risqué, funny, brilliant! The musical ‘Cabaret’, after Christopher Isherwood, is back with a bang! 

Vincent Paterson’s production of „Cabaret“ takes Kander & Ebb tuner back home to Berlin Cabaret, the famed Bar jeder Vernunft.

Berlin says willkommen as Cabaret comes home! 

This ‘Cabaret’ is worth the journey.

Free and breezy. 

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Your visit

Admission

Doors and restaurant open 90 minutes before the show.

Dining

Enjoy our large summer terrace with a view of the Chancellery from an hour and a half before the show starts and treat yourself to seasonal dishes from the kitchen and cool drinks: Gastronomy

In respect for the artists on stage, we do not serve during the show and kindly ask you to give your orders to our waiting team about 20 minutes before the performance begins.

Tickets

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