BKA-Theater

Since 1988, the jewel among the cabaret theaters has resided at the Mehringdamm in Kreuzberg: The Berlin Kabarett Anstalt, or BKA Theater for short - or the BKA by the people of Berlin.

A handful of cabaret artists, who as a CaDeWe - Cabaret of the West 1978-1985 on tour nationwide with cheeky political music cabaret, then reformed and acted as »The Disinherited«, wanted to settle down, moved into the traditional multi - storey business building Mehringdamm 34 and built the decades-old discotheque roof hatch to the theater.

Today, the BKA Theater offers cabaret, comedy, shows, improvisational theater, concerts, singer / songwriters and weird musicals. In the morning there will be English-language children's theater and every Tuesday evening the Unhörhörte Musik, Germany's only weekly concert series for contemporary music.

The game is played almost 365 days a year.

Equipped with self-deprecating shrewdness, the founders called their own theater Berlin Cabaret Anstalt - was and is in any case the discoverer potential of this stage. To this day, the established artists of the scene, Ades Zabel & Company, as well as the young generation of artists, who find a podium here, are among the regular artists.

With its anarchist ideas, the BKA sometimes also dealt with trouble: for example, as tickets circulated that resembled the BVG trading cards - and were used by the public as such.

At weddings there were two venues: the BKA Theater in Kreuzberg and the BKA tent at the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. Later, the BKA-Luftschloss resided on the Schlossplatz in Berlin-Mitte. In 2004, the Berlin cabaret institution retired to the parent company on Mehringdamm.

Since 2012, the BKA team, under the direction of Rainer Rubbert and Uwe Berger, has been working hard for one of Berlin's most popular cabaret theaters and is holding its own - without state subsidies.

In August 2013, the BKA on Mehringdamm celebrated its 25th anniversary with a festival lasting several weeks. On the occasion of the anniversary, the theater was refurbished with the help of a donation by the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, equipped with new event technology and air conditioning.