Die Fledermaus - Pride Edition

A Queer Take on “Die Fledermaus” for Pride Month

Text by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée
Pride Edition text version by Jürgen Bauer and Moritz Franz Beichl

In German language with German and English surtitles

Every year in June, Pride Month celebrates the visibility of queer culture, but also commemorates the fight against marginalisation and discrimination. Pride is resistance and joie de vivre! And what work would be better suited to take a fresh look at eroticism, love and social expectations on the occasion of this festival than Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus?

Operetta of all things? Yes - no genre is more queer! Subversive and revealing from the very beginning, it has always been a play with gender roles and desires. With masquerade and transformation, it tells of people who take on - or have to take on - other identities. What changes when relationships are not automatically heterosexual? When social norms produce not just pleasurable deceptions, but existential lies?

Jürgen Bauer and Moritz Franz Beichl have written a new version of the text for this pillar of the repertoire. No matter how you love or define yourself - celebrate Pride Month with us, the operetta and the liberating laughter about the masks that society wants to impose on us.