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Baumeister Solness

By Henrik Ibsen with additional texts by Gerhild Steinbuch and ensemble

 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 22.11.2024
 1 hour 30 minutes
 English Surtitles
 Strobe effect
 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 22.11.2024
 1 hour 30 minutes
 English Surtitles
 Strobe effect

Battle of the generations — “…furious and oppressive, a nightmare of guilt and forced atonement, excellently acted and interestingly constructed right to the end.” (Münchner Abendzeitung)

Halvard Solness is an unscrupulous building contractor. In business as in life, this powerful man knows no boundaries. His maxim: higher, faster, further. The architect is now at his the height of his powers, and the next generation seems more and more of a threat.

One day, Hilde Wangel suddenly turns up at Solness’s door – and with her, the ghosts of his yesteryears. A dizzying battle over the interpretation of the past begins. What happened a decade ago when Solness kissed the ten-year-old Hilde and promised her “a kingdom”? Why are there two empty children’s bedrooms in the childless Solness couple’s house? Upon what bloodstained foundations has Solness built his success? “Baumeister Solness” is the dramatic portrait of a man who is driven to his death by his fear of the changes being wrought to his present.

Director Felicitas Brucker was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen for the first time in 2023 with her triumphant theatrical thriller “Nora” (“A Doll’s House”). Now she is again dedicating herself to the work of Henrik Ibsen, that profound analyst of the nightmare of the bourgeois family. With Hilde Wangel, the focus is on a luminous female character who radically takes up the fight against her environment.

“Hilde Wangel confronts an inner demon that nonetheless attracts her. I see her urge to re-encounter Solness as an act of inner purgation – as liberation from a demon that has been with her for so long it has taken on an ineffable dimension. She wants to see it shrunk to its true size.”

– Annika Neugart, actor

  • Assistant to the Director Hannah Waldow
  • Stage Design Assistant Katharina Quandt
  • Assistant Costume Designer Jacqueline Elaine Koch
  • Intern Stage Design Franziska Hultsch
  • Intern Costume Design Lena Olivier
  • Stage Manager Barbara Stettner, Weronika Patan
  • Prompter Sandra Petermann
  • Artistic Production Management Zora Luhnau
  • Technical Production Management Adrian Bette
  • Stage Machinery Michael Preusser, Manuel Weber
  • Sounddesign Katharina Widmaier-Zorn, Paolo Mariangeli
  • Lighting Michael Barth, Wolfgang Wiefarn, Johnny Schoch, Louis Nickel
  • Video Ikenna David Okegwo
  • Make Up Sofie Reindl-Grüger, Marisa Schleimer
  • Costume Marija Ruzic, Fabiola Maria Schiavulli
  • Props Anette Schultheiss
  • Carpentry Josef Friesl, Stefan Klodt-Bussmann, Tobias Holland, Sebastian Nebe, Michael Buhl, Josef Piechatzek, Clemens Künneth, Wolfgang Mechmann
  • Metalworker Fritz Würzhuber, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Andreas Bacher
  • Decoration Maria Hörger, Tim Hagemeyer, Anja Gebauer, Tobias Herzog
  • Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach, Salvatore van den Busken
  • Performance Rights Henrik Ibsen, "Baumeister Solness" © Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Hamburg
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Find out more about the background to production here!

Junge Nacht on Di 10.12.

Visit to the performance of “Baumeister Solness” for young audiences (16 – 30 years) with artist talk and drinks directly after the performance in the Habibi Kiosk. Register now and secure 2 tickets for €10 at mitmachen@kammerspiele.de!

Press reviews

Süddeutsche Zeitung • 24.11.24

“These are poetic, fragmentary texts full of gaping holes, from which a despair creeps out that is almost unbearable to listen to. (…) Despite all the oppressive heaviness, Felicitas Brucker allows for a playful airiness that makes the evening exciting and unpredictable at all times.”

Abendzeitung München • 24.11.24

“… an eerie, morbid 90-minute nightmare play that breaks down Ibsen’s thought constructs into the baseless fragments of unequal forces.”

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung • 25.11.24

“She (Felicitas Brucker) turns the crown witness of realism into a forerunner of expressionism, an exemplary Ibsen into an Ernst Toller.”

Nachtkritik.de • 23.11.24
Dates & Tickets
Tue 10.12. 8 pm
Take part Abo: Dienstag orange Junge Nacht: 2 Tickets for 10 €
Thu 12.12. 8 pm
Abo: Donnerstag weiß
Tue 17.12. 8 pm

Introduction from 7:30 pm

Thu 26.12. 6 pm
Sun 12.1.25 7 pm
Abo: Sonntag blau
Fri 17.1.25 8 pm

Introduction from 7:30 pm

Abo: Freitag orange
Fri 14.3.25
Abo: Freitag blau
Sun 23.3.25
Abo: Sonntagnachmittag
Wed 2.4.25
Abo: Mittwoch blau
Thu 26.6.25
Abo: Donnerstag blau
Wed 9.7.25
Abo: Mittwoch orange
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Baumeister Solness
  • Schauspielhaus
  • Premiere: 22.11.2024
  • 1 hour 30 minutes
  • English Surtitles
  • Strobe effect