Masterpieces in the Berlin Cathedral
The case of Judah must be reopened. A story has been handed down, a judgment has been passed, and a scapegoat has been branded for eternity. Ben Becker raises his voice for someone who was chosen to play the Antichrist in order to make Jesus the Messiah.
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‘Judas is nothing without Jesus ... But Jesus is also nothing without Judas,’ according to the radical insight of Walter Jens, who shatters the moral certainties of millennia of piety in his Judas monologue.
A gigantic task for an actor: here stands one against all in a desperate struggle for belated justice. ‘I, Judas’ is an existential plea for a damned man, the correction of the greatest misjudgement in the history of faith and the revocation of an error that has divided the world.
With his interpretation of Judas, Ben Becker seeks not only to resist enemy images, prejudices and false certainties. He plays Judas precisely where the questions of faith and doubt, salvation and damnation have their place: in God's house, Berlin Cathedral, the largest church in the heart of the capital.
Not only is the setting spectacular, but so too is the music and sacred power of the historic Sauer organ, played by cathedral organist Andreas Sieling, who makes Ben Becker's defence of Judas a truly memorable event.
(IN GERMAN)
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Dates
March 2026
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