PHOTO: © Carsten Brockermann

Heroes

Name: Heroes
Start: 2026-01-29T20:00+0100
End: 2026-01-29T21:30+0100
Location: Orangerie Theater

Theater

In the organizer's words:

For the past two years, the play has been performed at the Orangerie Theater in January - every night to a sold-out house.

Amy Winehouse has been happily stuck in a kind of limbo for six years - together with alcohol and drugs. One day there is a knock at the door. First Lemmy Kilmister enters, followed by David Bowie and finally Prince. Panic seizes Amy - the battle for supplies begins.

What follows is a philosophical revue: sometimes funny, sometimes quiet, loud in the music and surprisingly deep in its insights. Hard lyrics are recited softly as poems, without musical accompaniment - breathed into the microphone, directly into the heart.

Partly sung and performed live, partly performed as playback or celebrated together with the audience in karaoke, it is about the big questions of life.

"When I was young, I was the nicest guy I knew.
I thought I was the chosen one.
But time passed and I found out a thing or two.
My luster wore off as time went on."
- I Ain't No Nice Guy, Lemmy Kilmister

"Don't be mad at me because you're approaching thirty
and your old tricks don't work anymore.
You should have known from the start that you'd only ever be abandoned.
So dust off your fuck me shoes."
- Fuck Me Pumps, Amy Winehouse

Funded by: Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, KLUBKOMM and RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur

Press reviews:

"Between surprisingly quiet tones and party-ready loud music, the four heroes vie for the limelight and vie for the audience's favor. The great songs are performed once again, with a good dose of self-irony mixed into the stars' well-known poses. Meanwhile, the audience can join in - and become the show's executioner. So it is not least up to the audience to decide whether the mood towards the end of the evening tends towards a requiem - or whether the four actors turn the room into a party hell.
(KStA, Norbert Raffelsiefen, Jan. 2018)

"Earplugs or schaps? Andrea Bleikamp's amusing homage...
"Heroes - ein theatrales Requiem" offers no room for weeping, but on the contrary, there is plenty of laughter."... One quirky idea follows the next... The loving revue - carried by a great ensemble - rightly earns extensive applause.(Kölnische Rundschau, Bernhard Krebs, 12.01.2018)

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Price information:

19,00 € normal | 12,00 € reduced | 8,00 € with Köln-Pass (excl. fees)

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