March storms on the burning Ruhr 1920-2020

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PD Dr. Irmtrud Wojak
Managing Director

Invitation to a hitherto little-noticed German revolution, which is taking place in the theatre this year for people aged 14 and over

In 1920, the people of the Ruhr region saved our then still young republic from the military coup under Kapp-Lüttwitz. Risking their lives, they saved democracy with great civil courage.

These events have been forgotten or suppressed today. We bring the fates and stories of this time to life on stage, because today our democracy is once again under acute threat. Although 100 years have passed since then, our society is once again caught in the same field of tension: back then between the democratic equality of all people against nationalist militarism, today between peaceful commitment to human rights and ecology, Refugees Welcome and Fridays for Future, against the new extreme and violent nationalists.

First performance: Sunday, 15 March 2020, 3 p.m.
Theatre Traumbaum in the KULTURMagazin, Lothringer Str. 36c, 44805 Bochum

Admission : Pay what you can or want


Further performancesMo. 16.03.20 10.oo a.m. / Tue. 17.03.20 10.oo a.m. / Wed. 18.03.20 10.oo a.m. / Thu. 19.03.20 10.oo a.m.

(The programme has been postponed to autumn 2020 due to the corona pandemic)

Admission: 2,50 Euro

Duration: 55 minutes plus follow-up discussion

Supported by BUXUS STIFTUNG and the Ministry of Regional Identity, Communities and Local Government, Building and Gender Equality of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia


Ensemble and staff

The Thetaer Traumbaum is an independent theatre for children and young people. The complete ensemble and our staff consists of the director and artistic director:

Birgit Iserloh & Ralf Lambrecht,
complemented by Klaus Jochmann, who composes and produces the music for the plays.

Thanks to the large mixture of fields of activity, target groups, venues and theatre forms, the Theater Traumbaum is lucky enough to still look forward to every single performance after all these years in the business. It’s the mixture that makes it…