Georg Kreisler's Tonight: Lola Blau is a bitter and touching revue - a moving musical about flight, homelessness and the dream of a better world.
"There's nothing going on in the theater!" - claims one of the chansons, but the opposite is true: a whole world full of theater, emotions and ruptures unfolds in the smallest of spaces. In his musical, which premiered in Vienna in 1971, Georg Kreisler tells the story of the fictional Jewish artist Lola Blau, who is forced to flee Vienna in the 1930s, emigrates to the USA via Switzerland and returns disillusioned after the war to a society that has hardly changed.
Tonight: Lola Blau is an extraordinary piece for a singer-actress and a musician - sometimes satirical and bitter, sometimes tender and melancholy, but always moving and topical. Kreisler's cabaret songs, which oscillate between wit and abyss, have lost none of their power to this day. They remind us that it is not enough just to catch a "little place in the sun" - you have to clear away the obstacles that obscure this sun for yourself and others.
With Clara-Sophie Bertram and Christoph Mehler, Lola Blau now has a new voice and presence - an invitation to be touched by humor, melancholy and sharp contemporary commentary in equal measure.
Premiere November 6
Further performances: November 23 and 30, 2025
