“Rahn Should Shoot…!”
About Soccer Gods and Romantic Idealists
Lecture in co-operation with the Catholic Academy, Freiburg
With: Dr. Harald Schützeichel, theologian and management consultant, Merzhausen
Where: Catholic Academy
When: Monday, May 22nd, 8 p.m.

What Keeps us Together
A lecture about the question: “Why do we believe?”
- Violence and Forms of Religious Belief (Faith and the sociological perspective)
With: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Pohlmann, Institute of Sociology, University Freiburg
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Tuesday, May 23rd, 8 p.m.

Rituals in the Protestant and Catholic Religious Service
A discussion in co-operation with the Protestant Adult Education, Freiburg
With Prof. Gerhard Rummel, Catholic University of Applied Sciences, Freiburg; Manfred Jeub, Protestant School Dean, Freiburg; Lupus M. Richter, Pastor, Chairman Association Wilde Rose: Centre for free Spirituality, Freiburg
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Tuesday, June 12th, 8 p.m.


Events during the festival:

One God – Three Religions?
The Principles of Judaism, Christianity, Islam
With: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard  Uhde, Prof. of History of Religion, University Freiburg
Where: Theater Freiburg, Small House
When: Friday, June 16th, 5 p.m.

Lectures during the Opening Ceremony
Working Title: About Faith in Theatre, Theatre in Faith and why Faith at all
With: Prof. Michael Huthmann, Prof. for Theory of Theatre, Federal College of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart, Dr. Carl Hegemann, Dramaturge, Volksbühne Berlin
Where: Theater Freiburg, Small House
When: Friday, June 16th, 7 p.m.

A day of lectures on the relationship between theater, ritual and religion
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Saturday, June 17th, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Theatricality in the Rituals of the World Religions
With: Prof. Dr. Dr. Bernhard Uhde, Prof. of History of Religion, University Freiburg

Violence, Action, Performance – The Return of Rituals in Contemporary Theatre
With: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hentschel, Prof. of Aesthetics and Communication, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld

Liturgy and Theatre
With: Dr. Gothbeddin Sadeghi, Teheran

“Israeli Theatre is not always very good, but it is never ever boring …”
Notes on contemporary Israeli theatre
With: Dr. Shimon Levy, Israel

The Issak-Complex
With: Dr. Matthias Morgenstern, Institute of Comparative Religion and Judaism, University Tübingen

The Search for Meaning in Theatre
With: Luk Perceval, Schaubühne Berlin

Religion in the Occidental Theatre Literature
Lecture in co-operation with the Verlag der Autoren
With: Marion Victor, Verlag der Autoren, Frankfurt/Main
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Sunday, June 18th

Building the Tower of Babel – Faith and Religion in the Theatre for Children
An authors’ talk in co-operation with the Verlag der Autoren
With: Marion Victor and Ulrich Hub, Ulrich Zaum, Rudolf Herfurtner
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schneider, President of International ASSITEJ
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Sunday, June 18th

“O ecstasy from glass of love! Saki, bring dew of grapes!
Fill the flagon! Where wine lacks, no company has life!”
Reading Hafis
With: Fazlollah Mostafawy, Isfahan, Iran
Where: Alter Wiehrebahnhof
When: Monday, June 19th, 5.30 p.m.

Music of Faith
With: Dr. Meinrad Walter, Theologian and Musicologist, Department of Church Music, Freiburg
Where: Südwestrundfunk Freiburg
When: Monday, June 19th, 7 p.m.

Knowledge and Faith – about the scientific and wise dealing with reality
Lecture
With: Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, Keeper of the Alternative Nobel Prize, Prof. emerit. for Physics, Max-Planck-Institute München
Where: Planetarium Freiburg
When: Monday, June 19th, 9 p.m.

An evening on behalf of the city partnership Freiburg-Isfahan
Presentation
Zourkhaneh  - Powerhouse
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Thursday, June 22nd

Zourkhaneh
Photo Exhibition
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: ND

“Thou shall not covet …”
Lecture in co-operation with the Protestant Adult Education, Freiburg
With: Prof. Dr. Regina Ammicht-Quinn, Prof. of Theological Ethics, Interfaculty Centre for Ethics in Sciences, University Tübingen
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Friday, June 23rd, 5.30 p.m.

“You Shall” – by Navid Kermani
Reading
With: Actors of Bühnen der Stadt Köln
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Friday, June 23rd, 10 p.m.

“Let your soul fly – a quiet evening under the stars”
No words – only the stars of the planetarium and music
Where: Planetarium Freiburg
When: Friday, June 3rd, 11 p.m.

Thora – Bible – Koran – the Holy Scriptures seen as Literature
With: Dr. Navid Kermani, Islam expert, author, theatre director, Köln; Prof. Dr. Klaus Berger, Prof. of New Testament Studies, University Heidelberg; Prof. Dr. Almut Bruckstein, Prof. of Jewish Religious Philosophy, University Frankfurt/Main; Presentation: Dr. Ludwig Ammann, Islam expert, author, Freiburg
Where: Theatre Freiburg, Winterer-Foyer
When: Saturday, June 24th

The Derwish-Ritual as Example of Performing Arts in the Arab World
Lecture and Film
With: Prof. Dr. Lamice el-Amari, Prof. of Theatre Arts, Berlin
Where: E-Werk
When: Saturday, June 24th, 7 p.m.

Closing Lecture
With: NN
Where: Theater im Marienbad
When: Sunday, June 25th, 11 p.m.


Also:
Working Title: A Reading of Angel Stories
With: Actors of Theater im Marienbad, Theater Freiburg
Where: Various places in Freiburg
When: During the festival

“Rap and Ramadan” – a film about the lives of young Muslims in Freiburg
“Die Judenschublade” – a film about the lives of young Jews in Freiburg
Where: Various places in Freiburg
When: During the festival