Notes on Accessibility during the festival »FIGURE IT OUT«

Early Boarding 
We offer early boarding for the performances “La Langue des Cygnes” and “Hrdinky?!”. Early boarding is a service for visitors with visible and non-visible disabilities. It allows them to enter the auditorium ten minutes before the official admission, giving them time to get accustomed to the space and choose a suitable seat.

Touch Tour and Audio Description
The performances “A hole in the air and everywhere” and “invisible” include integrated artistic audio description in German.
The workshop “Wurzeln: Versuche mit dem Unsichtbaren” is aimed at blind, visually impaired and sighted colleagues and will take place in German Language.

We offer a pickup service for blind and visually impaired people from nearby public transport stations.

Please register for the touch tours and the pickup service by 4 pm on the previous day. Registration takes place after ticket purchase via email at ticket@schaubude.berlin or by phone at +49 30 4234314.

Assistance dogs are permitted.

Performances with Sign Language
The performances “La Langue des Cygnes” and “Hrdinky?!” work with Sign Language. A German Sign Language interpreter will be available before and after the performances to assist visitors as needed. Audience talks will be interpreted into German Sign Language, and questions can also be asked in German Sign Language.

The workshops “Krump with Signs” and “Communication without Words” are aimed at Deaf and hearing colleagues.

Surtitles
The performance “La Langue des Cygnes” features English and German surtitles.

Tickets and wheelchair spaces
Tickets are available at our box office as well as in our online shop. As the website of our ticketing provider is only partially accessible, it is also possible to reserve tickets, including wheelchair spaces with an accompanying seat, by phone at +49 30 4234314 or by email at ticket@schaubude.berlin. Our ticketing service (from 18 August 2026) is available Tuesday to Friday from 10:00 to 13:00, as well as one hour before the performance begins.

Arrival by public transport
The Schaubude Berlin is located directly at the “Greifswalder Straße” stop (distance: 40 metres). The S-Bahn station is served by lines S8, S85 and the Ringbahn lines S41 and S42. The station has a lift with voice output (between the platform and the station hall) and a guidance system for the blind. The tram stop is served by the M4 line. The tram stop has a guidance system for the blind; the traffic light crossing has a facility for the blind. Click here for the BVG website.

Arriving by car
The nearest parking spaces for people with disabilities are in front of the swimming pool hall at Lilli-Hennoch-Straße 20, 4 parking spaces (distance: 500 metres).

Directions for the blind and visually impaired

• from the Greifswalder Straße S-Bahn station
• from the tram stop in the direction of Hackescher Markt
• from the tram stop in the direction of Zingster Straße / Falkenberg

Accessibility on site
The foyer is accessible without steps through two double-wing, non-motorised doors (width: 150 cm), which are open for admission. The box office is located immediately to the right in the entrance area. The bar (counter height: 120 cm) is straight ahead.

Information about the accessibility of the Podewil in structural terms can be found here.

Admission
The entrance to the hall is via a staircase with 6 steps with handrails on both sides.

For people with walking difficulties, access is at ground level via the stage entrance. Please come to the theatre foyer and our staff will escort you from there into the auditorium. Guide dogs for the blind can be brought along.

WCs
Gender-neutral WCs are located behind the red doors that open outwards. Access is via two staircases with handrails on both sides and a total of 11 steps. The sanitary facilities consist of an anteroom with several washbasins and WC cubicles leading off to the left and right.

Access to the barrier-free WC is on the left side of the theatre hall. Access is through two non-motorised doors (width: 88 cm). The light switches on automatically via a motion sensor.

Accessibility of individual productions
More detailed information on special requirements for the audience, the seating situation, possible content triggers and sensory stimuli can be found under the announcement texts of the individual productions from about two weeks before the first performance.

Feedback
If you have any suggestions, questions or criticism, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Contact
Magdalena von Sicard (Ticketing)
030 4234 314
ticket@schaubude.berlin