Der Geisterseher
By Robin Ormond
A city thriller after Schiller's unfinished novel, walked through Weimar with headphones.
In 6 days
8 September 2026 · 18:00 Uhr
About Der Geisterseher
Schiller left Der Geisterseher a fragment — a prince, a conspiracy and a Sicilian conjuror in Venice — and the DNT turns it into a Stadtkrimi in a version by Robin Ormond and the ensemble: an outdoor tour with headphones that starts at the theatre's box-office hall and takes the story into the streets. It is the rare case of a Schiller you walk through rather than sit in front of.
Performances
- 8 September 2026, 18:00 UhrKassenhalle im DNTTickets →
- 17 September 2026, 18:00 UhrKassenhalle im DNTTickets →
- 7 October 2026, 18:00 UhrKassenhalle im DNTTickets →
- 21 October 2026, 18:00 UhrKassenhalle im DNTTickets →
- 29 October 2026, 18:00 UhrKassenhalle im DNTTickets →
- Tickets
- 20,70 €
- Stage
- Kassenhalle im DNT
Also on stage here
Where
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Organiser
Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar
Tickets
20,70 €
Facts checked against the organiser on 29 August 2026
Places and people
Historical figures
1759–1805 • writer • poet • historian
After Schiller's unfinished novel — the ghost-seer rather than the dramatist, and still unmistakably him.
Historic sites
Theaterplatz 2, 99423 Weimar
Starts at the house's Kassenhalle and goes outdoors from there.
Historical periods
Schiller's prose, walked through the city he settled in.
For roughly sixty years a duchy of a few thousand people held the centre of German literature, because its ruler kept inviting writers to live there and then gave them jobs. That is the whole mechanism, and it ran from Goethe's arrival in 1775 to his death in 1832.