What is this ANUVERSUM?
10 days of open-air theatre on Tempelhofer Feld. 10 days of Anu theatre art with the best storytelling, the most beautiful live cello music, performative experiments, workshops, rituals, sensual experience spaces, a myth dinner, philosophical talks on the theme of "LOKI, ODIN, THOR - Of trick stars, giants and gods". The centrepiece of this mythical kaleidoscope is the sensual and touching evening production YGGDRASIL - Stories from the Edda.
We take you with us "behind the scenes". We’ll show you how we’ve been working and thinking since 2005, and what really drives Theatre ANU. With a wide variety of programme formats, we want to bring you all together at Tempelhofer Feld. We can’t wait to see you! We want to know who you are: our audience!
In the ANUVERSUM In 2025, we asked you about the gods, tricksters and giants within you and within our society. Looking at the current state of global politics, one might think that the divine is completely absent; that the world now consists solely of tricksters whose sole aim is to throw the world into disarray and plunge it into chaos: everything has become an unpredictable game. And the giants of our time? Crashing glaciers, as in Switzerland (Blatten), severe storms, heatwaves and…
Norse mythology conjures up and celebrates the opposites from which not only the world was created (fire and ice), but which also always have something primordially human about them. Loki is the bridge from the immortal gods to us humans. His impulsive, passionate, unpredictable nature, which wants good and always creates evil, provides the basis for the gods to be divine in the first place: they are called upon to create a heroic cosmos out of all the Loki chaos...
