Sven Ratzke

The grandiose entertainer with an extra helping of sexiness takes you into the legendary nightlife of a city full of extremes: from drab alleys to decadent theaters, from wild clubs to grimy pubs. Ratzke shows you a Berlin as you have never seen it before: sweltering, swinging and dangerous, hilarious and extremely sexy.

On the premiere night of the “Threepenny Opera,” we meet Josephine Baker, Bertolt Brecht, Marlene Dietrich and the scandalous nude dancer Anita Berber and dive into a world of opposites: a world of glamour and poverty, of classical and jazz, of coke and queens of the night. Once again, with fascinating entertainment, dazzling scenery and great music, the brilliant storyteller Ratzke succeeds in presenting a “tightrope walk on the volcano” about a time exactly one hundred years ago. A time that has surprisingly many parallels with the world of today. 

Together with the virtuoso strings of the renowned Matangi Quartet, Sven Ratzke presents new arrangements of Kurt Weill's music and conjures a complete soundscape between swing, chanson, jazz and cinematic atmospheres. 'Dance on the Volcano' is a phenomenal mix between a one-man show and super exciting musical theater. Let yourself be transported into a hallucinatory time, as if on a roller coaster, free to the motto “Live today, because tomorrow it could be over!

Ratzke and Matangi are asking you to dance.

Dance, dance, dance!