Das Portal

In the organizer's words:

by Nis-Momme Stockmann

What does a general director need whose contract extension is in jeopardy and whose company is crumbling and bubbling at every corner? A big success, of course! A new play! Preferably from the pen of an up-and-coming young playwright and directed by a successful young director - this is sure to win back the hearts of local cultural politicians. At the same time, an artistic director can lose sight of the fact that his chief dramaturge is planning a coup against him. And that is just one of the many scenes and trouble spots in this theater farce, in which everyone thinks only of themselves and the employees lose themselves in petty wars.

"It's a bombastic firework display, a gigantic parody of the theater business and how people talk about theater - about everything we are currently reflecting on in the theater," Deutschlandfunk wrote jubilantly on the occasion of the premiere in January 2024. Now "Das Portal" is coming to the Aachen stage - just in time for the theater's anniversary! After all, what better occasion could there be to make fun of the theater?

Nis-Momme Stockmann has been one of the most successful and versatile contemporary playwrights since 2009; he writes plays, radio plays, poetry and prose and has won several awards. His first play "The Man Who Ate the World", which was his breakthrough play in 2009, was performed at many theaters - in Aachen in 2014 - and was also made into a film in 2021. His novel "The Fox" was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2016. His penultimate play is a comedie humaine and a sparkling theatrical firework.