In the organizer's words:

loosely based on Dante Alighieri, Meat Loaf and Britney Spears

What if you love with all your heart, but this love remains unfulfilled? In the collection of poems and songs "Vita Nova" (The New Life), the poet Dante gives an insight into his feelings for Beatrice. He fell madly in love at the age of nine, only saw Beatrice again at 18 and never met her again - before she died at the age of 24. Dante dedicates his life and all his writing to Beatrice: In his millennium book "The Divine Comedy", he follows her from hell through purgatory to paradise, where he meets her again, at least in fiction.

During his lifetime, Dante never confessed his love to Beatrice, and her early death leaves a painful gap. How do you deal with not having done something? We all know the hope of a second chance, of a new beginning. But how do you actually do that? Christopher Rüping and his ensemble approach the more than 700-year-old texts with this central question, retelling them, reliving them together. Love poems from the late Middle Ages meet pop songs from today. The result is a meeting place of delicate beauty and great power. A unique theatrical trip from earth to heaven and back - on the trail of true love and the big and small questions of life.

What can a new life be when the old one is no longer possible? How do we start anew? Where do we go from here? Beatrice may have an answer.

Director Christopher Rüping, born in Hanover in 1985, has left his mark on German-language theater with his extraordinary productions. His productions often arise from a relaxed openness towards the audience, in a free space in which actors and spectators can meet. Christopher Rüping has become one of the most important directors of his generation thanks to his ability to create theater evenings that are as tender as they are exuberant, cleverly conceived and without fear of great emotion, with intelligent wit. To date, he has received five invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen, has twice been voted Director of the Year in the magazine "Theater heute" and has been awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize and, most recently, the Berlin Theater Prize.

Invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2022
Invited to the Heidelberg Stückemarkt 2022
Awarded the German Theater Prize Der Faust for Paul Hankinson and Jonas Holle

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