NEWS
AUGUST 2025
We’re thrilled to unveil our brand-new music video for Stoppin’ Time — a soul-stirring love duet brought to life by the sensational Sophia Riedl (the German voice of Ariana Grande in Wicked) and the magnetic Philipp Nowicki. Filmed over four unforgettable days across some of Berlin’s most breathtaking locations, this video is a visual and emotional journey you won’t want to miss!
JULY 2025
We won again! The Los Angeles Film and Script Festival has chosen Let’s Talk Tacheles for Best Dramatic Screenplay. We are also finalists at the New York International Screenplay Awards and Official Selection at the Chicago Script Awards. We couldn’t be prouder!
April 2025
We won! The London Global Film Awards has picked Let’s Talk Tacheles as this year’s winner for Best Feature Screenplay. We couldn’t be more excited to see that our story and songs are resonating. Stay tuned for some very exciting news coming later this Spring…
February 2025
We are thrilled to announce that our screenplay was awarded ‘Official Selection’ from the Chicago Script Awards. We are also currently quarterfinalists in the Blue Cat Screenplay Competition and still in the running. Fingers crossed for more good news soon!
January 2025
Pleased to share the glowing coverage our screenplay received from the Austin Film Festival. This prestigious festival is recognized as one of the seminal events for discovering new talent and excellent scripts. Most submissions receive a “Pass” rating from their stringent evaluation process, while a few are given a rating of “Consider.” Our screenplay received a very exclusive rating of “Recommend” which indicates the reader was willing to “put their neck on the line” to stand behind a work of extreme quality!
Quoting the festival:
“Setting a musical in this famous hub of artistic endeavor is a great concept! Among painters, sculptors, performance artists, etc., musicians very famously haunted the halls of the Tacheles, making the musical element found in this story far from a stretch.”
“Musically the piece feels like it is inspired by elements of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s work in Hamilton and In the Heights, and the tone and texture of the story feels inspired by dramatic conventions found in Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, West Side Story, and Across the Universe.”
“The dialogue throughout is very strong, and often very humorous. And the lyrics are beautifully written, easy to catch the rhythm even without hearing the music.”
THANK YOU, Austin Film Festival!
March 2023
Excited to announce that the video from our staged workshop is now ready and can be seen in the WORKSHOP 2022 section. To watch our sneak-peak trailer, please click here:
DECEMBER 2022
Our musical and Nadja Danciger (story & music), were featured in a half-page spread in Berlin’s premier daily paper, the Berliner Morgenpost. After attending our July 4, 2022 workshop, cultural journalist Petra Koruhn conveyed to us her desire to support such an important and timely production. She writes: “A perfect show … as musical as it is political … which virtually struck a chord in the minds and souls of the audience … Everyone sitting here on this late summer evening hearing that piano intro, the rising melancholy when Rachel, the young freedom seeker, seems to touch heaven and hell at the same time, feels only one thing: goosebumps.” (Translated from German)
SEPTEMBER 2022
We were honored to receive an 8,000 Euro grant from the Ursula-Lachnit Fixon Foundation. It meant a great deal to us to learn the head of the foundation was so moved by our story and July 2022 workshop. The foundation supports improving German-Jewish relations, honors the memory of the Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis, and supports historical works, particularly those on the history of Berlin Jews and their integration into German society.
July 2022
To a packed house, Let’s Talk Tacheles came to the stage for the first time at the Musikbrauerei, an underground event location in the ruins of an historical brewery. Together with our talented and dedicated cast, live band, and crew, and after a mere two-week rehearsal, we brought our musical to life. Complete with choreography, staging, and video projected against the raw backdrop of an exposed brick wall, Let’s Talk Tacheles transported an international audience to the arthouse Tacheles, East Berlin, 1990. Witnessing the tears and hearing the laughter of young and old alike was an incredible affirmation that our story resonates and needs to be shared. For that, we are now pursuing further financing and production partners.
“It was an emotional evening with great singers and dancers and a highly moving theme that must not be forgotten. A kind of history revue that could also be perfectly suited as infotainment for school groups. Highly professional in its implementation and extremely socially relevant – and yet a show that is courageous and fun.” Petra Koruhn, Cultural Journalist, Funke Media
March 2022
It was a great honor to be chosen by the German Musical Academy for its premiere industry event, schreib:maschine.
Our musical was one of four featured on that special evening at the Schmidtchen Theatre (of Hamburg’s legendary Schmidt Theatres), and we joined fellow musical authors, composers and creatives in showcasing our work. Please view some of the highlights here:
August 2021
We are very excited to announce the completion of our first live table read workshop at the Theater des Westens in Berlin. With the help of Elisabeth Engstler and Shay Cohen, we garnered an incredible team of artists including Devi Ananda-Dahm, Daniel Dodd Ellis and Caroline Fortenbacher. After just two days of rehearsal, we performed the entire musical in front of a live audience for the first time. The response was overwhelmingly positive! We are already working on our next step: a staged workshop planned for July 2022.
