In a completely sold-out Festsaal, Brazilian director and performer Jéssica Teixeira concluded the 2024/2025 season at Sophiensæle with her award-winning work MONGA. From September 2024 to July 2025, Sophiensæle presented more than 60 stage productions and numerous additional formats including guided tours, artist talks, and workshops, welcoming over 20,000 visitors in the second season under the artistic direction of Jens Hillje and Andrea Niederbuchner.
Tanz im August will return during the summer break. This year's festival runs from 13 to 30 August and presents two productions in the Sophiensæle: suân ซ่วน by Nguyễn + Transitory and from rock to rock... aka how magnolia was taken for granite by Jeremy Nedd.
The Sophiensæle will open the 2025/2026 season on 10/11 September with the premieres Subjoyride by Boglárka Börcsök & Andreas Bolm and CROWD CONTROL by Oliver Zahn. Ceylan Öztrük will be showing the German premiere of Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM in September and we are also looking forward to the revival of MASTEKTOMIE. A bittersweet farewell song by CHICKS* and LOUNGE by Marga Alfeirão with Mariana Benengue, Myriam Lucas & Shaka Lion.
Further premieres in October will be by Olivia Hyunsin Kim/ddanddarakim, Camille O (fka Hans Unstern) & Jule Flierl and Justin F Kennedy.
Advance booking start: 31.07.2025