An excellent musical

"You have to have a hard spirit and a soft heart," wrote Sophie Scholl in a letter shortly before her arrest. Together with her brother, she was part of the White Rose during National Socialism. Vera Bolten (book, director) and Alex Melcher (book, music) have created a gripping musical from the story of this resistance movement, which had its Munich premiere on our stage in 2025. It was subsequently awarded the German Musical Theater Prize a total of seven times. Now it is returning to the place where the story began.

For freedom

The clarity and determination with which the Scholl siblings and their comrades-in-arms Alexander Schmorell, Willi Graf, Christoph Probst and Prof. Kurt Huber fought against the Nazi regime developed over a long period of time. In the play, we first get to know Hans and Sophie as convinced members of the Hitler Youth and experience harassment, injustice, cruelty and arbitrariness together with them. We understand their initial enthusiasm as well as their doubts and their turning away from the regime. We share in the excitement of the production and distribution of the leaflets, their arrest and even their sentencing.

More topical than ever

The White Rose is not only a play about responsibility and the courage to rethink, but also about growing up. About first love, discovering one's own personality and searching for and finding one's own path in life in a dark time in our history. Today, when more and more people are deciding to confront the problems of our world with simple slogans instead of really wanting to solve them, The White Rose reminds us of the responsibility of each individual for justice and humanity in our society.