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Theater highlight in the vaulted cellar: Emotional program for 2026!
Three theater performances will take place in the Besigheim vaulted cellar in 2025, including Rüdiger Erk's “The Whole Terribly Beautiful Life”.
Theater highlight in the vaulted cellar: Emotional program for 2026!
Today, October 30, 2025, the play “The Whole Terribly Beautiful Life” by Rüdiger Erk will be performed again in the vaulted cellar in Besigheim. This performance marks the start of a new theater series that is planned until 2026. The premiere of the piece recently took place in Bönnigheim Castle and has already sparked a lot of anticipation among the audience. With the participation of the singer Monika Maria Schmitz and the musician Mike Janipka, love songs from past centuries as well as the texts of Roland Barthes are staged in the performance, such as the Bietigheimer Newspaper reported.
The following two pieces are to be performed in the vaulted cellar. “Seemannsgarn”, a commissioned work for the Fellbach Municipal Museum, celebrates its premiere on November 6th. It is the first performance outside of Fellbach and focuses on sea shanties and adventure novels. The focus is on the “Kap Song”, a work by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, which he wrote while in prison and served as a farewell song for 2,000 soldiers. The poet, born on March 24, 1739 in Obersontheim, criticized the aristocratic rule in the Duchy of Württemberg in his writings and was expelled from the country for this in 1773. Schubart's work continues to this day and inspires composers such as Franz Schubert, as n-ag highlights.
A new program series
The vaulted cellar will therefore not only appear as an event location, but also as a space for reflection and social change. The third performance in this series, “Blue Hour,” premieres on November 27th and deals with the lives of the artists Ian Curtis from the band Joy Division and the poet Novalis. The performance features a top-class cast with Anna Le Fur, Rüdiger Erk and DJ Moers and offers an exciting connection between music and literature.
The selection of plays and the variety of topics reflect the rich theater tradition. The history of theater has been strongly influenced by social change in the past, stretching from the Baroque era to Romanticism and industrialization. The new series in the vaulted cellar is intended to bring emotions and adventures to life, which has clear parallels to the central themes in Schubart's work.