EMPFÄNGER UNBEKANNT at Theater im Palais, Berlin

EMPFÄNGER UNBEKANNT is a play staged at Theater im Palais in Berlin on Sunday, 22 November 2026, at 16:00. It is a guest production (Gastspiel) of a play by Katherine Kressmann Taylor, with Axel Pape as "Max Eisenstein" and Rainer Appel as "Martin Schulze". Axel Pape also directs and wrote the music.

The costumes are by Gioia Raspé and the video by Henning Groß. The production runs 1h 10 Min. and is followed by a talk with the audience.

The play follows two friends, Max and Martin, who run a business together until Martin returns to his German homeland in 1932. Max worries about his sister, a young actress working in Berlin, while Martin increasingly becomes a supporter of, and profiteer from, the rising regime.

Tickets start at EUR 30.80, and a discount is available. The theatre is at Am Festungsgraben 1, 10117 Berlin.