ETA Show: Great Spirits Brings Literary Haunting to the Bamberg Stage
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When the Spirits of the Theater Begin to Sing
On October 17, 2026, an equally comedic and mysterious guest box opens at the ETA Hoffmann Theater in Bamberg: In the ETA Show: Great Spirits, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Donna Anna from Mozart's Don Giovanni meet. Amidst hauntings, literature, and music, an extraordinary stage experience unfolds about the longing to finally be understood.
A Zombie Flatshare on Stage
Daniel Seniuk's production transforms the theater into a haunted house where the great spirits of cultural history have been living together for centuries. E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich von Kleist clash over their literary quirks, while Mozart seeks musical inspiration and Donna Anna haunts through the legendary guest box No. 23.
When a washed-up show host named ETA settles into this involuntary shared apartment after a burnout, the past and present, high culture and show business, melancholy and black humor collide. Out of initial hostility, a cautious community develops. Music becomes the dramatic key: it connects the living with the dead and makes hidden emotions audible.
Humorous Dramaturgy between Literature and Music
The ETA Show combines acting, musical revue, and local theater history. The concept plays with the literary traces of E.T.A. Hoffmann as well as with the stage world of the ETA Hoffmann Theater. Directed by Daniel Seniuk, dramaturgy is handled by Lea Mantel. Anna Siegrot designs the set, while Alexander Drabusch and Lennart Peters are responsible for the video elements.
The production creates an experience with shifting tones: sometimes eerie and atmospheric, sometimes grotesque and surprising, then again touching. Set design, lighting mood, costumes, acoustics, and video projections guide the audience through an evening where the boundaries between memory, legend, and present blur.
An Ensemble Full of Stage Energy
Hennie Gerdes, Avi Meyer, Laura Röseler, Daniel Seniuk, Stephan Ullrich, Luke Venatier, and Daniel Warland give the characters different voices and temperaments. In the audience reaction, literary depth meets musical exuberance. The actors portray the great spirits not as museum monuments but as stubborn, vulnerable, and very alive stage figures.
An Evening for Theater Lovers and Music Fans
The ETA Show: Great Spirits focuses on the cultural history of the place and brings it into immediate proximity with a modern, humorous production. Those who appreciate theater atmosphere, literary allusions, musical moments, and imaginative directorial work will experience an evening between ghost comedy, concert, and poetic dance of death.
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On October 17, 2026, the audience at the ETA Hoffmann Theater Bamberg can expect an unusual stage experience full of music, black humor, and literary ghosts. The ETA Show: Great Spirits invites you to experience the famous undead of the house live and to search together with them for what connects people across all times: to be understood.
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