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LOFFT - DAS THEATER is a free production house and venue in Leipzig. It is located on the grounds of the Spinnerei Leipzig in Hall 7 and is one of the most important venues for the independent performing arts in Saxony, with international productions in the fields of dance, performance and theater.

Calendar

PROFITRAINING | PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Professional training for interested dancers in the LOFFT rehearsal room.

KOMM REIN! | COME ON IN!

The M.over Company’s open rehearsal offers an insight into the work of KLASSE | CLASS.

ELLA

Between dance, text, percussion and audio recordings, a finely pulsating performance emerges about the power of grandmothers.

WERKSTATT: BARTNELKEN [HOW DID I GET HERE IF ALL MY ANCESTORS WERE GAY?]

An autofictional quest for traces of queer family history – buried, slumbering, retold, invented. Who is hiding in the gaps of the family tree?

KLASSE | CLASS

The ‘wrong’ T-shirt, the cheap trainers – how quickly does class determine who belongs? In the dance piece KLASSE | CLASS, choreographer Mandy Unger, together with four dancers, explores how social origin is inscribed in the body and movement, and how dance, club and hip-hop culture can act as means of coping and self-empowerment within this context.

TALK: DIE UNSICHTBARE GRENZE | THE INVISIBLE BORDER

A conversation about class, accessibility and barriers in the cultural sector.

[Translate to English:] Blaues Visual mit der Beschriftung: Inklusiv produzieren. Barrierefrei veranstalten.

Inclusive producing. Accessible event organisation.

What do inclusive ensembles, companies and bands, as well as artists with disabilities, need to be able to do their work? And how can venues and events be made accessible to a diverse audience?

SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR

A walk-through audio installation exploring the (im)possibility of recounting war as an experience and its place in this society. Now adapted for the stage.

[Translate to English:] Collage aus zwei Bildern: Im Vordergrund sitzt eine Familie aus den 1950er/60er Jahren auf einer Picknick-Decke, während im Hintergrund ein schwarz-weißer Atompilz in die Höhe steigt.

SPLIT / FUSE / REPEAT – A POSTNUCLEAR PERFORMANCE-ESSAY

The musical theatre collective Schatz & Schande follows the traces of nuclear power through landscape, language, and the soul. Between hope and destruction, nostalgia and downfall, sound, music, performance, and video unfolds a stream of thought about the invisible.

[Translate to English:] Eine Luftartistin hängt kopfüber an einem Fahrrad in der Luft.

SAUDADES

Two homelands, one longing: A woman travels by bicycle from Germany to Brazil to celebrate her grandmother’s 100th birthday. Bicycle, aerial acrobatics, theatre and memories accompany her.

TYPE & ACT – WRITTEN AND PERFORMED LIVE

It is not a reading, not a rehearsal and certainly not a finished play, but a one-off, irreproducible live performance. A leap into the unknown or a play with the here and now.

[Translate to English:] Im Zentrum des Bildes ist eine gezeichnetes Insekt - ähnlich einer Libelle - zu sehen.

The Entomological Variety Show

A turbulent theatre evening exploring the poetry and philosophy of insects and new ways of living together – with us and with you. Magic, discourse and transformation!

Programme Highlights

ELLA

Between dance, text, percussion and audio recordings, a finely pulsating performance emerges about the power of grandmothers.

WERKSTATT: BARTNELKEN [HOW DID I GET HERE IF ALL MY ANCESTORS WERE GAY?]

An autofictional quest for traces of queer family history – buried, slumbering, retold, invented. Who is hiding in the gaps of the family tree?

KLASSE | CLASS

The ‘wrong’ T-shirt, the cheap trainers – how quickly does class determine who belongs? In the dance piece KLASSE | CLASS, choreographer Mandy Unger, together with four dancers, explores how social origin is inscribed in the body and movement, and how dance, club and hip-hop culture can act as means of coping and self-empowerment within this context.

[Translate to English:] Blaues Visual mit der Beschriftung: Inklusiv produzieren. Barrierefrei veranstalten.

Inclusive producing. Accessible event organisation.

What do inclusive ensembles, companies and bands, as well as artists with disabilities, need to be able to do their work? And how can venues and events be made accessible to a diverse audience?

SOMEWHERE THERE'S WAR

A walk-through audio installation exploring the (im)possibility of recounting war as an experience and its place in this society. Now adapted for the stage.

[Translate to English:] Collage aus zwei Bildern: Im Vordergrund sitzt eine Familie aus den 1950er/60er Jahren auf einer Picknick-Decke, während im Hintergrund ein schwarz-weißer Atompilz in die Höhe steigt.

SPLIT / FUSE / REPEAT – A POSTNUCLEAR PERFORMANCE-ESSAY

The musical theatre collective Schatz & Schande follows the traces of nuclear power through landscape, language, and the soul. Between hope and destruction, nostalgia and downfall, sound, music, performance, and video unfolds a stream of thought about the invisible.

[Translate to English:] Eine Luftartistin hängt kopfüber an einem Fahrrad in der Luft.

SAUDADES

Two homelands, one longing: A woman travels by bicycle from Germany to Brazil to celebrate her grandmother’s 100th birthday. Bicycle, aerial acrobatics, theatre and memories accompany her.

TYPE & ACT – WRITTEN AND PERFORMED LIVE

It is not a reading, not a rehearsal and certainly not a finished play, but a one-off, irreproducible live performance. A leap into the unknown or a play with the here and now.

[Translate to English:] Im Zentrum des Bildes ist eine gezeichnetes Insekt - ähnlich einer Libelle - zu sehen.

The Entomological Variety Show

A turbulent theatre evening exploring the poetry and philosophy of insects and new ways of living together – with us and with you. Magic, discourse and transformation!

NEWS

OPEN CALL: KATAPULT – Performance Platform Leipzig

For the fourth time, LOFFT – DAS THEATER, Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig, and Schaubühne Lindenfels are jointly organizing KATAPULT – Performance Platform Leipzig for the fourth time in the 2026/27 season. KATAPULT supports experimental artistic projects that explore innovative forms of performance.

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