Winterwerft is the festival for wild, organic, uncivilized theater. Theater that changes perspective and pace, that looks fearlessly into the abysses of our time and goes in search of visions with the means of critical creative debate.

What remains when we stop pretending that everything is fine?
We invite them, the bee dancers and storytellers, shamans, Brahmins and visionaries, street children, city pirates, forest gnomes and spirit seers. We go in search of stories and perspectives that supposedly or actually help us to better understand these wild times. We stoke the fire and invite you to look into the flames, dare to look into the abysses, lay the crown of creation in the grass for once and sneak through the undergrowth of this world together.

Winterwerft seeks and creates spaces for critical and creative engagement with the crises and challenges of our time. In particular, the prevailing narratives, such as the idea of limitless growth or the superiority and detachment of humans – with all their consequences and traces for and in culture, nature, philosophy and the economy – should and may be questioned and examined. The focus is on changing perspectives and researching alternative, regenerative points of view.
Unconventional and transdisciplinary approaches in theater and performance will be presented and space will be given to the creative examination of acute ecological, political and social challenges. The focus is on the quality of our cultural narratives and the influence they have on the way we see ourselves as human beings in the context of the natural world around us. The question of narratives that see us as embedded in and dependent on the natural world around us is posed and examined, researched and creatively processed using models of regenerative, sustainable culture and nature connection.
Every Friday and Saturday from 18:30 and Sunday from 15:00, the Winterwerft invites visitors to take part in readings, discussions, lectures and workshops on forest and change, catastrophe and culture, the great course of things and a small species in the midst of all this – the human being. Each evening, visitors can look forward to a top-class evening program, during the week workshops invite participation, on Sundays and in the mornings there is a children’s program, the yurt invites visitors to conversations, concerts and readings and food and drink can be enjoyed at the bar and in the Babushka Café.