Saturday, 25 July 2026 · 19:00–23:10 · Altstadt-Lehel
Meister und Margarita
Jette Steckel's four-hour staging of Bulgakov's devilish Moscow novel, with money raining from the flies and a witch on a broomstick.
Why go
A big, theatrical take on Mikhail Bulgakov's cult novel, directed by Jette Steckel on the main Schauspielhaus stage. Steckel runs the three storylines at once: the satire of Soviet Moscow, the love story of the Master and Margarita, and the Pontius Pilate strand, complete with hypnosis and a broomstick flight. Thomas Schmauser plays both the Master and Bulgakov himself, and Wiebke Puls gives the devil Woland a cool menace in pinstripes. It runs about four hours ten with an interval, so settle in for the evening, with a free introduction half an hour before curtain and German dialogue carried by English supertitles.