Play “Murder on the Regional Express” in Berlin: If your heart doesn’t melt here, you don’t have one

Why it is pure joy when people with disabilities act in theater – currently in “Murder on the Regional Express.” And why the Rambazamba Theater in Berlin has to defy the cultural cuts.

What the Berlin austerity measures mean for smaller cultural institutions can be seen at the Rambazamba Theater in Prenzlauer Berg. The artistic director Jacob Höhne does not currently know how much money his theater will have available for the current year: "We have not yet received a grant notification. I only know that we will be cut." The cuts of around 10 percent that are being discussed would be "absolutely devastating" for his theater. Then we would no longer have our own production budget and would have to apply for project funding for every new piece," Höhne calculates.