Gesine Danckwart & Katrin Hentschel:
OST-WEST-KANTINE (East-West Canteen)

Collective dialogue

Over four days surrounding the date of 3 October, theatre-makers Gesine Danckwart and Katrin Hentschel open an “East-West Canteen” at the Akademie der Künste to mark the 35-years anniversary of German reunification. Around a shared table, stories, attitudes, designs, music and menus invite guests to discuss and celebrate German reunification and European borders.

An invitation to a collective dialogue and shared discussions, to citizens and tourists, choirs and soloists, professors and theatremakers, artists and canteen staff alike ... Get mixed! To create shared visions of the future!

1 — 4 Oct 2025

Pariser Platz

Black Box

1 & 2 Oct
6 – 10 pm

3 Oct
4 – 8 pm

4 Oct
6 – 11 pm

Artistic team: Masha Qrella, Fabian Kühlein, Johanna Meyer, Luise Wilhelm, Alexander Wolf 

Contributions by Anja Reich, Anke Stelling, Grit Seymour, Barbara Vinken, Viola Stephan, Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann, Iwona Nowacka, Janek Turkowski, Schorsch Kamerun, and many more

A production by Chez Company

Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds

Free admission

Further information

ostwestkantine.de