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Philipp Hochmair, Werther
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 August 2025 | ||||||
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Philipp Hochmair
WERTHER!
after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An invitation to the most famous ego-trip in German literature: Philipp Hochmair in the role of Goethe's boundary-pushing Werther.
What relevance does Goethe's emotionally charged epistolary novel about the lovesick Werther still have in the age of Facebook, Twitter, and the "iPhone" culture? Philipp Hochmair tells Werther's story using the original text from his personal, modern perspective. A brilliantly urgent performance that moves between reading, monodrama, and performance.
"A star moment with a star, Philipp Hochmair, a talent out of the ordinary."
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
"A wonderful journey through the soul of an unhappy man, which seems to end far too quickly."
Die Welt
"Philipp Hochmair is the epitome of all things Werther."
Frankfurter Rundschau
"Goethe's Werther was created in just a few weeks and became the book of the hour overnight. The urgency, necessity, and intensity found in this text have lost none of their power, even 250 years later. In accordance with this timeless relevance, we have also placed it musically in a new context, which simultaneously emphasizes its timelessness."
Program and cast
Prinzregententheater
The Prinzregententheater, or Prince Regent Theatre, is a theatre and opera house located at 12 Prinzregentenplatz in theBavarian city of Munich, Germany.
Initiated by Ernst von Possart, the theatre was built in the Prinzregentenstrasse as a festival hall for the operas of Richard Wagner near an area where a similar project of King Ludwig II had failed some decades before. Named after Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria the building was designed by Max Littmann and opened 21 August 1901 with a production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" by Richard Wagner. Like the Bayreuth theatre, the auditorium was designed to Wagner’s specifications, however an amphitheater has replaced the loges.
After the destruction of the Nationaltheater during World War II, the Prinzregententheater housed the Bavarian State Operafrom 1944 to 1963 even though it also suffered damage during the war which was not repaired until 1958. Since its renovation in 1988, the Prinzregententheater, with 1122 seats, has served also for the Bavarian Staatsschauspiel and now houses the Bavarian Theatre Academy founded by August Everding. Another theatre in the building, the Akademietheateror Academy Theatre, seats 300.
The Prince Regent theater is reached very well both by car and by public transportation MVV.
With the MVV (Munich Transport)
Subway: U4 Prinzregentenplatz
Bus: Lines 54, 100 Prince Regent Place
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