What to do on the weekend? | Luxembourg word

If you don’t necessarily like the 1st May celebrations and prefer to celebrate the culture on this weekend in the bridge, we recommend the following:

« Steel animal. An exorcism » – theater over Nazi propaganda films in the TNL

After the great success at the Théâtre National Du Luxembourg and at the Renaissance Theater in Berlin « Steel animal. An exorcism » In this season back onto the stage of the TNL. The play by Albert Ostermaier, written on the initiative of director Frank Hoffmann, is an intensive chamber game about power, manipulation and moral crossing.

The plot leads to 1935, into an abandoned demonstration room of the Reich Propaganda Ministry. Two people are present: Leni Riefenstahl, the celebrated director, and Joseph Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda and Lord about the German film industry. Together they look at « the steel animal » – an expressionist industrial film by Willy Otto Zielke, which was banned by Goebbels, and now, at that moment, has its effect. But while the film is running, the real drama begins: a psychological exchange of blows, an ominous dance of two characters, driven by ambition, ideology and dependency. Riefenstahl is faced with a decision – and Goebbels knows the price.

Supported by historical film clips and live video projections, a dense, tense atmosphere develops. Frank Hoffmann succeeds in a reduced and impressive production that the audience immediately draws into the whirlpool of events.

On Sunday, May 4th at 5 p.m. and on May 6th, 7th and 8th at 7.30 p.m. in the TNL.

Luxvocalis and Luxembourg Chamber Players present Handels « Messiah »

Together with the ensemble Luxembourg Chamber Players under the direction of Thomas Raoult, the Chor Luxvocalis lets one of the most famous works in music history Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel, sound in the parish church in Strassen.

With his stirring choral singing, moving arias and the triumphant « Halleluja » choir, Handel’s Messiah is one of the most popular oratorios in the world. The solo arts take over: Christine Leick (soprano), Anne Matic (Alt), Alexander Gebhard (tenor), Laurent Kubla (bass). The concert offers music lovers the opportunity to experience the baroque masterpiece in a lively and at the same time contemplative interpretation.

On Sunday, May 4, 2025, at 5 p.m. in the parish church in Strasse. Admission free.

« Spring Awakenings » about youthful sexuality and self -discovery

With “Spring Awakenings”, the Capuchinerein’s multilingual theater evening brings to the stage, which deals with young sexuality and self -discovery in the digital age at great depth. Director Anne Simon and author Antoine Pohu use the scandal piece « Spring awakening » by Frank Wedekind Back from 1891 – and update it radically.

The focus is on a group of young people and the existential questions with which they are confronted: sexual identity, orientation, guilt, fear, curiosity and the need for belonging. Simon and Pohu interweave Wedekind’s text with newly created passages based on interviews and workshops with today’s young people.

On the stage there are, among others, Jules Werner, Brigitte Urhausen and Jil Devresse – an ensemble that urges the emotional extreme between tenderness, rebellion and disorientation.

On Sunday, May 4th at 5 p.m., on 7, 8. And May 10th at 8 p.m. and on May 11th at 5 p.m. Capuchiner Theater.

EP release and anniversary party: Tuys celebrate in the Rotondes

The band celebrates not only the publication of their new EP, but also its 18th anniversary-with a headline show and subsequent party. Founded as a school band in 2007, Tuys has long since played from the school stage on international festival boards.

Tuys invited top-class guests to celebrate the evening: C’est Karma, Maz, Edsun, Poko (Eternal Tango) and the promising Fulvous-a line-up that promises a long night between indie gloss, electro groove and pop experiment.

On Friday, May 2nd, at 8 p.m. in the Rotondes. Entry 18 euros.