Dracula - Evil Has a Name

What if Dracula weren’t just a story, but an experience? What if the horror didn’t remain at a distance, but gnawed at your skin, your breath, and your thoughts? This production shatters the boundaries of conventional German theater, which often interprets the myth within a political context rather than allowing audiences to feel it in its original form. Here, there is no distance—only fear, desire, and the loss of all control. “Everyone knows Dracula,” says director and playwright Sascha Hödl, “but I was looking for a way to retell the story without losing its original vision. Many productions romanticize the material—and that’s why I took it apart and put it back together.” “Dracula” becomes a relentless horror trip: intense, physical, and psychologically unsettling. A world emerges in which fiction shatters and reality takes shape. New perspectives encounter the familiar—and unleash their power within it: they move and shock anew, without losing the sense of the familiar. This production dares to do what has become rare on German stages: genuine, unfiltered horror. No winking, no irony—just darkness that creeps closer than one would care to endure. An evening that doesn’t end when the curtain falls, but lives on deep within.