Deutscher Herbst by Christopher Rüping

In Christopher Rüping's new play at the Deutsches Theater, a daughter meets her father. She has many questions but gets no answers, because her father, who has dementia, has forgotten where he comes from and who he is. In an election autumn, the evening follows the daughter's questions and the father's silence and tells of the disorientation of the present.

The title goes back to the travel report "Deutscher Herbst" that the Swedish author Stig Dagerman wrote about Germany in 1946. The evening works with texts by Stig Dagerman, Caspar David Friedrich and Blümchen.

A co-production with the Ruhrtriennale; the world premiere took place in Bochum, the Berlin premiere on 26 September 2026. The evening lasts 3 hours 20 minutes with one interval. On 8 and 30 December there is an introduction at 18:30 in the Rangfoyer.