Set in Hamburg's “Hell's Kitchen,” a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pimp, sending his naive girlfriend out...
A small carnival is in dire financial straits. Their show is attracting fewer and fewer paying customers, as their "attractions" are ageing, out of shape and beset by internal feuds and bickering. One day a beautiful young woman shows up and suggests a way of attracting customers: put on a strip...
Cleopatra flees to the wastelands of Africa, where she almost falls victim to cannibals. Afterwards, Leni Riefenstahl kidnaps the Egyptian and brings her to Berlin on Hitler's orders to make a film with her.
With a heavily pregnant empress at the altar, a completely new history begins: the Bishop of Vienna declares the pregnant Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph to be husband or wife. This is followed by the painless birth of the heir to the throne, his abduction to Hungary and the revelation of an...
The hero of this play, Liane Jokkemöller, runs a Cologne travel agency that specialises in adventure travels: her desk is sitting on elephant legs, the walls are papered with zebra stripes. The dernier cri are weekend safaris to Africa, including a photo-op with Tarzan and Jane. Gerhard and...
