PREMIERE - Today between yesterday and tomorrow
A musical performance about memory, escape and hope - with music from the Golden Twenties
ABOUT THE PIECE
Two people, two generations, two suitcases.
A woman from the 1990s and a young refugee meet in today's Berlin. A dialog full of music, memories and hope develops between the past and the future.
STAGED, PLAYED AND SUNG BY ANASTASIA WEINMAR AND ILYA KHODYREV
September 25, 2026, 8:00 p.m.
theaterforum kreuzberg
Eisenbahnstr. 21, 10997 Berlin
A contemporary intimate play about memory, identity and new beginnings
PARTICIPANTS
Anastasia Weinmar
Actress (diploma, St. Petersburg) with many years of stage experience in Germany and Russia. She has played the title roles in Maria Stuart (Russische Bühne Berlin) and Ich bin Edith Piaf (IBDT Berliner Drama Theater), where she was also co-director.
Her artistic training has taken her to the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (USA) and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg.
She worked as an assistant director and dramaturge at the Deutsches Theater Berlin in Fräulein Julie and Platonov (director: Timofej Kuljabin).
Her most recent film roles were in De Dans Van Natasja (director: Jos Stelling) and Keine Stadt. No village. (directed by Ekaterina Reinbold).
She lives in Berlin, speaks fluent German, English and Russian, and is also active as a singer (mezzo-soprano).
Ilya Khodyrev
Actor, director and co-founder of the "Urban Theatre" in Berlin and a city theater in Saint Petersburg. He has played over 20 leading roles on stage and appeared in more than 15 film productions, which have been shown at international festivals such as the FilmFestival Cottbus, Achtung Berlin and "Dukh Ognya". In Berlin, he has appeared in productions at Ballhaus Prinzenallee, Theaterforum Kreuzberg and Kühlhaus, among others. He has worked with the Maxim Gorki Theater and developed the project Miscarriage of Freedom, funded by the DAKU Fund. His artistic focus is on interdisciplinary performances, political theater and the reflection of flight, identity and memory.
Andrei Diakov
He successfully completed his studies as a concert pianist at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg and continued his studies at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen with Professor Boris Bloch.
Andrei Dyakov has worked at various theaters in Germany. In 2012, he made his debut as a conductor at the Berlin State Opera.
