1001 Nacht – Live!

"1,001 Nights" has a history of success spanning over a thousand years. It is part of global pop culture, constantly being reinterpreted. The courageous Scheherazade is considered the inventor of the cliffhanger: she always interrupts her story at the most suspenseful moment, thereby halting the violence of the tyrannical ruler. The popular podcast based on Claudia Ott’s new translation is coming to the stage for the first time. Director Judith Lorentz closely weaves together the narration (Roxana Samadi) and the music (Philipp Johann Thimm with Roshanak Rafani), featuring stories of the mermaid Dschullanar, three self-assured sisters in Baghdad, and a fisherman’s struggle with a giant djinn. Scheherazade tells her story to save her life—and we listen.