On Wednesday 26th June 2024, we brought Letters Live to the Berlin Philharmonie for our German debut!
Letters Live has consistently aligned itself with charitable causes. This event proudly continued this tradition, supporting the vital work of Children for Tomorrow.
Read on for the evening’s incredible cast list.
This Letters Live show was in association with Montblanc.
ACT ONE
Sabin Tambrea
I must have written you 14 to 15 letters
Ich habe Dir 14 oder 15 Briefe geschrieben
Frank Kafka to Felice Bauer
Poor mother, forgive your fallen son
Arme Mutter, vergib Deinem
Hermann Hesse to his mother
Anke Engelke
Liebes Internet
Dear Internet
Tina Fey to internet commenters
I can’t fight any longer
Ich bin am Ende meiner Kraft
Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf
Claudia Michelsen
How strange it is
Jacqueline Kennedy to Willy Brandt
Iris Berben
Dear, dear Helmut, adieu
Adieu, mein lieber Helmut
Charlotte Rampling to June Newton
Sebastian Koch
Little one from the ice-rink!
Kleiner von der Eisbahn!
Erich Maria Remarque to Marlene Dietrich\
Alli Neumann
Dear Sir
Sarah-Louise Jordan to an admirer
Ece Temelkuran
This is not a missive, but a mission
Fiona Glen to Earth
Dietmar Wunder
Liverpool are winning too many games
Liverpool gewinnt einfach zu viele Spiele
A Man Utd fan to Jurgen Klopp
Christine Becker
Your globetrotting idiot
Dein Globelltrottei
Jurek Becker to Christine Becker
Mark Waschke
With many good wishes for our house
Wie gefält ihnen mein Haus
Lion Feuchtwanger to the occupant of his house
ACT TWO
Sebastian Koch
Damn, the emotion
Verdammt, die Ruehrung
Harry Rowohlt to friends
DO
Mach
Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse
Alli Neumann
Thank you and I hope you choke
Ich hoffe, Sie ersticken
Beatles fan to Nike
Jesper Munk
We are fighting for the very soul of the world
Nick Cave to a reader
Iris Berben
Fortunately, I had my new radio
Zum Glück hatte ich mein Radio
Marianne Müeller to A. Walker
What did you say? I can’t hear you….
Ich kann Dich nicht hören
Katherine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy
Laila Fakori
Mother, my heart longs for you
Fakori to her mother
Mark Waschke
Seat 29E
Sitzplatz 29E
A customer to Continental Airlines
Claudia Michelsen
Give women the vote
Man gibt den Frauen das Wahlrecht
Bertha Brewster to. Daily Telegraph
Iris Berben and Anke Engelke
Dear Friend
A.Freund
Hermione Gingold to A. Friend
Dietmar Wunder
I have the cookie
Null Kekse
Cookie Monster to Bahlsen HQ
Sabin Tambrea
I have had my eye on you
Ich habe sie ins Auge gefasstt
Simon Fallowfield to Mary Foster
MUSIC
Jesper Munk
Christmas Card From a Hooker in Minneapolis (Tom Waits)
Slow Down
Nikko Weidemann (piano)
Ibadet Ramadani (vocals)
Forest
Sleep my Child
A customer to Continental Airlines, translated by Eva Bonné; Jurek Becker to Christine Becker, © Christine Becker; Beatles fan to Nike, translation by Ruth Keen, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; Bertha Brewster to Daily Telegraph, translation by Kristian Lutze, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; Nick Cave to Leon and Charlie, © Nick Cave; Cookie Monster to Bahlsen, ; Daragh Curley to Jurgen Klopp, © Daragh Curley; Laila Fakori to her Mother, © Laila Fakori; Simon Fallowfield to Mary Foster, translation by Frank Dabrock, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; Tina Fey to Internet commenters, © Tina Fey, translated by Karolina Fell und Silke Jellinghaus © Rowohlt Verlag; Lion Feuchtwanger to The occupant of his house, © Lion Feuchtwanger. By permission of Felix Bloch Erben Verlag GmbH, Berlin in connection with Aufbau Verlage GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin; Hermione Gingold to A. Friend, © the Estate of Hermione Gingold, translated by Eva Bonné; Fiona Glen to Earth, © Fiona Glen. This letter is a part of the Letters to the Earth campaign, which began in 2019, when people around the world were invited to put pen to paper and write letters in response to the climate and ecological emergency. An excerpt is published in their book ‘Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis’; Mary Grant to A. Walker, translated by Eva Bonné; Hermann Hesse to His mother, from: Hermann Hesse, ‘Gesammelte Briefe: Erster Band 1895-1921’, 1973 Ⓒ Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin; Katherine Hepburn to Spencer Tracy, © KHH Enterprises LLC, translation by Kirsten Borchardt, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; Sarah-Louise Jordan to An admirer, © Sarah-Louise Jordan, translated by Eva Bonne; Jacqueline Kennedy to Willy Brandt, © the estate of Jacqueline Kennedy; Jurgen Klopp to Daragh Curley, © Jurgen Klopp; Sol LeWitt to Eva Hesse, © 2023 The LeWitt Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), translation by Lisa Kögeböhn, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH; Charlotte Rampling to June Newton, © Charlotte Rampling, translated by Eva Bonne; Erich Maria Remarque to Marlene Dietrich, © 2001 by the Estate of the late Paulette Remarque, © 2001 Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne; Harry Rowohlt to Friends, © by Kein & Aber AG Zurich – Berlin; Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, translation by Ulrike Draesner, by permission of Heyne Verlag, © Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH;
