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Graduating class of directing acting 2026 © Ali Khademi

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2026 Thesis in Theater Directing by Margit Pötzsch
Saturday, 06/27/2026 18:00 Thalia Gaußstraße, Studiobühne

What weather!
The sun is blazing, foreheads are sweating, not a cloud in the sky,
as a huge steamship sets sail from the California harbor. The destination:
the icy coast of Greenland.
This ship, as big as a village, battles its way through the waves—heading toward
the company’s new location, with four powerful! leadership-ready!
truly! amazing! bigwigs! from executive management on board, as well as several sensitive,
temperature-sensitive computing systems (as well as 200 low-wage workers below
deck). They look hopefully toward their future, this stretch of land
on the horizon, THEIR ELDORADO—when suddenly something
tips
The sun? No, not the sun—
the horizon—
the horizon that must never tilt suddenly stands—
vertical—
And gasping for air, our four pike swim toward the sun—and—
don’t notice him, the fifth friend, who is suddenly swimming at their side.
Welcome to Sealand.

Very loosely based on motifs from William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”

WITH Alicja Rosinski, Rieke Seja, Paula Julie Pitsch, Amelie Josephine Vogt,
Sofie Junker, Johanna Elena Basilico, Lara Stelling, Alex Petratos, Julian
Grüneberg, n.n.

DIRECTOR & TEXT Margit Pötzsch SET DESIGN Jacopo Asam, Zoé
Brandenberg COSTUME DESIGN Sarah Theresa Hofer, Jule Hassold
MAKEUP Viktoria Klauser LIVE MUSIC Alex Petratos (musical
direction), Julian Grüneberg, Henning Katz, Andris Meinig SOUND DESIGN Merlin Gebhard
LIGHTING DESIGN Lukas Mattern MOVEMENT DIRECTING Slava Kushov
DRAMATURGY Mona Schäfer
PROPS Luise Köhler
HELPING HAND Luca Abels

Eintritt: 18,00 EUR
Ermäßigt: 11,00 EUR

Tickets are available on the Thalia Theater website.

JUSTICE should be the foundation of every system, every relationship;
anything else makes no sense, is inhumane, and destroys
the very basis of our existence. But what are we talking about when we talk about justice,
and who gets to speak? Is justice a visionary
utopia, an empty buzzword, or rather a matter of interpretation that can be exploited?
Based on these questions, the five graduates of the
directing program discuss what they believe should be told on this topic.

With thanks to the instructors Evi Bauer, David Heiligers, Dorothea Ratzel, Lilja
Rupprecht, Cora Sachs, Anika Steinhoff

Bachelor’s 2026 in Theater Direction at the Theaterakademie Hamburg, University of
Music and Drama in cooperation with the Stage Design class at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HfBK), the Design/Costume Design departments at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), and the Thalia Theater Hamburg.