Our office is closed between August 3 and 20.

Reservation requests may be filed at any time and will be dealt with after our break (first come-first serve).

"Let's have a nice evening" („Da woll´n wir uns mal ´nen schönen Abend machen“)

Sunday, 30 August 2026, is the perfect opportunity to do that. Jürgen Becker, creator of this slogan, founder and 28-year presenter of the German tv-show ‘Mitternachtsspitzen, will present his current programme ‘DIE URSACHE LIEGT IN DER ZUKUNFT’ at the Friedenskirche in Ratingen. He will look to the future with his own sense of humour, based on his observations of everyday madness and in the tradition of Karl Valentin (‘The future used to be better too’).

As is customary at eastPLUGGED® events, music plays a major role, this time performed by Vladyslav Sendecki, long-time pianist of the NDR Big Band, who will host the evening together with Jürgen Becker.

Cabaret with words and music, satirical and improvisational – it promises to become an entertaining and exciting evening.

SOLD OUT

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

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Amazing!:

The Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra is performing in the amazing acoustic space of the Friedenskirche together with the band of Berlin trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky. It will be a great evening of music when piano, trumpet and drums unite with the orchestra's string instruments.

The Rheinische Post wrote: "What the Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra has to offer is impressive almost anywhere in the world. Such precision in string arrangements is rarely heard. It is even rarer for a large orchestra to play with such balance of timbres, even in the wildest moments." This fits perfectly with our eastPLUGGED® concept.

Look forward to the first eastPLUGGED® concert with orchestral accompaniment . €40/person including drink.

This concert is also intended to express our solidarity with the cultural creators in Ukraine, who have been severely restricted for years in practicing their profession. We further do hope that the war has come to an end by November at the latest

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE

Double concerts have become an important feature of our eastPLUGGED® program. This time, the outstanding lineup of artists takes on a political dimension as musicians from Israel, Palestine and Germany will perform.

AVISHAI COHEN [tr] and YONATHAN AVISHAI [p], both ECM artists, share a long-standing musical friendship. The title of their duo project “Playing The Room” captures exactly what will happen: filling the space of the Friedenskirche (Church of peace) with music.

AEHAM AHMAD grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Syria. The world took notice of him and his family’s distress when he set up his piano among destroyed houses and performed to give people hope. After his piano was destroyed, he fled. Later, he met drummer TOBIAS SCHULTE, who most recently performed with Triosence and Paolo Fresu at eastPLUGGED®. Aeham and Tobias will present their program “Kanjiru” (in English “feeling”).

The Friedenskirche seems  to be the ideal venue for this gathering: Here, the focus has always been on what unites us—something that, thanks to the outstanding acoustics, can be expressed in a particular way through music. All the musicians are enthusiastic about the concept of this double concert, so we can once again look forward to a special eastPLIUGGED® evening.

Reservations at €45pp [drink included]

Advance ticket sale starts soon via this website

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Changes in line-up possible. Exchange and return of reserved seats excluded.

To avoid rubbish, we do not use paper tickets. Access just by name as booked. Free choice of seats.

NO BOX OFFICE