Rundfunkchor Berlin

Jochen Sandig's award-winning production of Johannes Brahms's "German Requiem" with the Rundfunkchor Berlin will be performed again in April 2026, where it premiered in 2012: at the Radialsystem.

Under the direction of Chief Conductor Gijs Leenaars and together with a team from Sasha Waltz & Guests, the Rundfunkchor Berlin choreographs the Brahms Requiem. The separation between stage and auditorium is eliminated; the audience is not seated directly in front of the sound, but moves within it – text, body, space, and sound are directly connected.

The "human requiem" has touched listeners worldwide for 14 years now – and is more relevant than ever. In the face of unimaginable suffering caused by war and a multitude of crises, the need for consolation is enormous at the moment. And Brahms' Requiem is not a mass for the dead. On the contrary: it is intended to provide precisely this comfort to the living. And that is why a spatial implementation of this work is so fitting in terms of content.

The message of the Requiem becomes a direct, collective experience in the community of singers and listeners.

Additional information

A production by the Rundfunkchor Berlin in cooperation with Sasha Waltz & Guests and Radialsystem.

Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.

Johannes Brahms„Ein deutsches Requiem“ op. 45 für Soli, gemischten Chor und Klavier zu vier Händen, eingerichtet von Phillip Moll nach der Originaltranskription von Johannes Brahms

Participating artists

Rundfunkchor Berlin (Mit)

Gijs Leenaars (Dirigat)

Victoria Randem (Sopran)

Ansgar Theis (Bariton)

Angela Gassenhuber , Philip Mayers (Klavier)

Jochen Sandig (Konzept und Regie)

Ilka Seifert (Dramaturgie)

Davide Camplani , Claudia Lourenco De Serpa Soares (Künstlerische Mitarbeit / Repetition)

Brad Hwang (Raum)

Jörg Bittner (Licht)

Kristin Hörnig (Technik)