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Within the 25-year history of LOFFT, more than 1000 projects have been realized at our house. You can browse through a large part of the productions and projects shown here on the following pages.

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EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: SEX EDUCATION II: FIGHT

TJAŠA ČRNIGOJ (LJUBLJANA)

SEX EDUCATION II: FIGHT recalls the historic struggle for reproductive self-determination in Yugoslavia and establishes an inseparable link between the private and the political. In doing so, it raises current questions about physical autonomy and sexual rights.

  • Theatre

EURO-SCENE LEIPZIG: DANCE AND THEATRE IMPROVISATION – FRENCH-GERMAN WORKSHOP

JULIE DOYELLE (LYON) + TINA WEILER (BERLIN)

Attention aspiring artists: in this workshop, you will focus on working with theatre and physical improvisation.

  • Workshop
[Translate to English:] Vier Kinder mit langen Haaren, die zu Zöpfen gebunden sind, sitzen auf dem Bühnenboden, der Kamera mit dem Rücken zugewandt. Dahinter eine Tribüne mit Publikum, das Bühnensetting ist in violettes Licht getaucht.

HEIZHAUS ON STAGE X STORIES OF GRÜNAU X SCHÖN GENUG

HEIZHAUS LEIPZIG X HEIZI COMPANY

HEIZHAUS ON STAGE is an evening where all dancers, big and small, from the Heizhaus can be seen together on stage. In addition, the dance theatre pieces STORIES OF GRÜNAU and SCHÖN GENUG will celebrate their premieres!

  • Dance
  • Theatre
  • Kids & Youth
[Translate to English:] Eine Hand hält einen Stift der auf ein weißes Blatt Papier, das auf einem schwarzen Bühnenboden liegt, zeigt.

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

Vasiliki Bara, Drawing circle HALLE 14

Everyone who enjoys drawing together or would like to learn how to draw is invited to join the HALLE 14 drawing circle.

  • Workshop

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: DIE LANGE NACHT DER NFT-RESIDENZEN

DINNER | PERFORMANCE | CULTURAL POLICY PANEL DISCUSSION

The Netzwerk Freier Theater (NFT) invites you to cook, experience art, and engage in discussion.

  • Discourse
  • Performance
  • Dance
  • Theatre

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: PODIUMSDISKUSSION: MORE RISK MORE FUN.

THE NEW BOUNDARIES OF CROSSING BORDERS

A meeting format of the Freischwimmen production platform with positions from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

  • Discourse
Five people are standing on a stage set. They have colourful, decorated bags on their heads and are posing for the camera with oversized staplers, pens and stamps as stage props.

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: DIE TÜTEN AUS DER VERWALTUNG. Das Bürokratie-Musical

glanz&krawall und Theater Thikwa

A furious musical ride through the world of bureaucracy with a magnificent inclusive ensemble, rousing songs, and choreography that makes the administration dance.

  • Theatre
  • Music
  • Performance

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: VERANTWORTUNG ÜBERNEHMEN #3

GRENZEN ÜBERWINDEN DURCH INTERDISZIPLINÄRE ZUSAMMENARBEIT

Solutions for an interdisciplinary funding landscape will be discussed in keynote speeches, panels, and workshops.

  • Discourse
  • Workshop
A dancer leaps into the air, pulling her legs up to her body and stretching out her arms, looking energetically and defiantly towards the audience.

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: DU BIST DRAN! | IT'S YOUR TURN!

REGINA ROSSI

Be a hero for once! Is the competition for recognition fair? Dancers and audience explore in a cheerful, sweat-inducing way what it feels like to act in opposition or as a collective.

  • Dance
  • Kids & Youth
[Translate to English:] Ein erwachsene performende Person läuft im Kreis mit einer Gruppe jüngerer Menschen. Sie klatschen dabei in die Hände.

POLITIK IM FREIEN THEATER: ICH KANN’S NICHT LASSEN. | I CAN'T HELP IT.

JANNE GREGOR / TANZKOMPLIZEN

A PARTICIPATORY PIECE FEATURING KRUMP DANCERS.

Four Krump dancers invite the audience to take up space and dance without words, but with lots of movement. The boundaries between stage and auditorium become blurred.

  • Dance
  • Kids & Youth

WORKSHOP: LET'S DE_RE_CONSTRUCT_COLLAGE

FRANZ&FRIDA - ATELIER (LEIPZIG)

A creative collage workshop on deconstruction, composition, and reinterpretation as part of UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT with Franz&Frida - Atelier.

  • Workshop

UNKNOWN COEFFICIENT

MATIÈRE MOBILE / MARIE GOURDAIN (LYON)

Everything happens at once: this dance piece pauses a single moment and breaks it down into its individual choreographic parts — just before everything collides.

  • Dance

WORKSHOP: KÖRPER – BAU – MATERIAL | BODY – STRUCTURE – MATERIAL

FELIX BAUMANN | VON B BIS Z (BERLIN)

In his workshop, Felix Baumann invites participants to an experimental laboratory at the intersection of body, construction, material, and humor, inspired by the themes of his new project BAU HOW, which is scheduled to go into production in 2026.

  • Workshop
  • Contemporary Circus
  • Theatre

WERKSTATT: WURZELN / ROOTS

VERONIKA HEISIG (BERLIN)

In search of radical movement, the piece dives beneath the earth's surface into the world of roots. There, the mysterious life of a root spirit unfolds...

  • Dance
  • Performance

BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE

LOTTE MUELLER (INTERNATIONAL)

Everything is connected. What happens when someone lets go? With BEYOND THE END OF YOUR NOSE, the Lotte Mueller Company explores the dynamic relationship between responsibility, order, and chaos.

  • Contemporary Circus
  • Dance
  • Music
[Translate to English:] Portraitfoto von André Kubischek.

READING: NOSTALGIA

André Kubiczek (Berlin)

In NOSTALGIA, André Kubiczek paints a somewhat different picture of life in the GDR – from the perspective of a binational family trying to settle into everyday life.

  • Discourse

SCENIC LESUNG: KRYOSTASE (WORKING TITLE)

MISSINGDOTS (DRESDEN)

Between the longing for immortality and the fear of death: in a staged reading, missingdots delves into the world of cryonics.

  • Theatre

OSTOPIA – EIN TÄNZERISCHES KAMMERSPIEL | OSTOPIA – A DANCING CHAMBER PLAY

M.OVER COMPANY (LEIPZIG)

OSTOPIA is not a real place, but rather a scenario in the present: this intimate dance creates a private space in the public sphere, questioning identity and utopia.

  • Dance

#SCHATZSUCHE | #TREASUREHUNT

KAHMANN & MOSQUERA (BERLIN/LEIPZIG)

In a poetic dance journey, a dancer, together with the young audience, discovers constantly changing natural phenomena such as sand, water, and sound.

  • Kids & Youth
  • Dance
  • Theatre
  • Performance

DIGITALE TRÄUME – ZWISCHEN DDR-VERGANGENHEIT UND HIGHTECH-ZUKUNFT

ECHOLOT: THE SERIES OF TALKS AT LOFFT

Experts take a comprehensive look at the historical past of the GDR and the digital future of Saxony as a location for high-tech industry.

  • Discourse
[Translate to English:] Verschwommene orangene Fähnchen im Vordergrund, sie scheinen sich zu bewegen und rechts oben eine Blase, in die etwas nicht klar Lesbares projiziert wird. Es könnte sich um einen Computercode handeln.

SILICON DREAMS

OUTOFTHEBOX (BERLIN/HANNOVER)

Between historical finds and speculative scenarios, SILICON DREAMS sheds light on the microchip as a global instrument of power—and as a surprising chapter in East German technological history.

  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Installation

WERKSTATT: FREUNDINNEN | GIRLFRIENDS

KLARA ANNEMARIE REWICKI (LEIPZIG)

A story about sixty years of friendship, about evenings spent in bars in East and West Berlin, about annual entry permit applications, and the certainty of hearing each other on the phone at 10 p.m. every night.

  • Theatre

TALK: BODY, DANCE AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE

Dr Gustavo Fijalkow, Steven Solbrig and Helena Wölfl

Following OPENING, the political dimension of bodies in their diversity, dance and performance as well as the political significance of space will be examined.

  • Discourse

OPENING

MIRJAM GURTNER + FORWARD DANCE COMPANY BY LOFFT – DAS THEATER

OPENING, the opening piece of Kunstfest Weimar 2024 is coming to LOFFT as an adapted stage version: in the black box, it addresses the fragility of human existence between isolation and solidarity.

  • Dance
Nahaufnahme: Zwei Spielzeugbagger stehen vor einem See (evtl. der Cospudener See). Im See spiegelt sich die Sonne und am Horizont sind Bäume des anderen Ufers erkennbar.

WERKSTATT: SEENSUCHT – AUF DEN SPUREN VON COSPUDEN

KOHL.LEKTIV (LEIPZIG)

Where the fuck is Cospuden? From excavated hole to swimming lake: Dive into the (hi)story of Cospuden.

  • Performance
One hand holds a pen and points it at a blank sheet of paper.

VISITING: DRAWING CIRCLE AT LOFFT

FORWARD DANCE COMPANY, Katharina Zimmerhackl

The HALLE 14 drawing circle will be led by the artist Katharina Zimmerhackl and will take place as part of the rehearsals for OPENING by the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY at LOFFT.

  • Workshop

KATAPULT: OH

NEUE SORGFALT POM POM POM (LEIPZIG)

We are entering an archive. [Not now, but soon.] This archive is a hole. [A pile of holes!] We're going in there now.

  • Performance
A collage of typical Leipzig houses in the background, a stone in the centre of the picture and fluffy fabric cacti on the left-hand side front of the picture.

KATAPULT: HOME/NOT ALONE

NAIN THEATERCOLABORATIV (LEIPZIG)

What if we could not only look at our current reality from the past and present, but also from the future? An installative archive for the ideas of tomorrow.

  • Performance
  • Theatre

KATAPULT: TORNADO'S EYE

DAVID EISELE (ALTENBURG)

A musician starts dancing with his cello. Chairs spin all by themselves and glasses turn into acrobatic marvels. Join us for a hypnotic journey between madness and meditation.

  • Contemporary Circus
Four women running towards the camera.

KATAPULT: BINGOWINGS

KOLLEKTIV BINGO (LEIPZIG)

There is something to win. Not a one-off. It is played all in. Full risk. Four Bingowinger women of age+ invite you. BINGO.

  • Performance
  • Theatre