Tom Pauls - Power Theater

Tom Pauls shares with fine wit the ups and downs of his career. Why did Tom Pauls perform a love scene with a rain gutter? Why was he almost expelled from drama school and ended up going backwards off a stage? Why was he employed as a dung beetle at DEFA? When did he speak as a woman with Mikhail Gorbachev, and what connects him with Diether Krebs, Christopher Lee, and Stevie Wonder? How did he narrowly escape an egg liqueur explosion, and why did he establish three theaters that should never be entered without shoes? For the first time, Tom Pauls tells theater stories from five decades with delightful self-irony and sharp humor. He has never spoken so personally about the highs and lows of his career, about theater in the GDR, and disasters like the Elbe floods and the Corona pandemic. There were never any mishaps. But with his antics, he tirelessly makes his audience laugh and continues to create theater.