June 24 to July 19 Beatles Exhibition – Deutsches Theater Munich

June 24 to July 19: THE BEATLES Photo Exhibition / July 15 to July 19: *The Beatles – "All You Need Is Love!"* Musical in Munich

 

THE BEATLES Summer: Hit musical *The Beatles – "All You Need Is Love!"* and the photo exhibition "60 Years of the Beatles in Munich"

June 24 to July 19, 2026: John, Paul, George and Ringo - Photo exhibition "60 Years of the Beatles in Munich" in the Deutsches Theater auditorium (DEUTSCH)

 
Munich Tip: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Star in Munich: Sixty years ago, the Beatles played their legendary concert at the Circus Krone—on June 24, 1966. To commemorate that magical "Bravo-Blitz-Tournee"—during which the "Fab Four" performed two shows at the Circus Krone venue—an exhibition titled "60 Years of the Beatles in Munich" will open on June 24, 2026, coinciding with the run of the musical *The Beatles – "All You Need Is Love!"* (July 15–19, 2026) at the Deutsches Theater (Baroque Hall/Auditorium). From June 24 to July 19, the exhibition will delight music fans. It is curated by Herbert Hauke, who runs the Rock Museum in the Olympic Tower (currently closed for an extended period due to construction work). Hauke ​​is displaying Beatles photographs from his personal collection that document the Fab Four's legendary visit to the Circus Krone. Website: deutsches-theater.de

Letter from Paul McCartney displayed on a poster at a Munich exhibition dedicated to Tommy Kent (1942–2022); photo: Helga Waess

In 1960, four young men named John, Paul, George and Ringo started out as the band "The Beatles."

Thus began the legendary era of the "Fab Four." The Beatles made music history and created unforgettable hits. The musical biography *All You Need Is Love!* celebrated its world premiere 26 years ago, in the year 2000. It kicked off on the open-air lakeside stage at Lake Chiemsee. Since then, the singers and actors have delighted audiences numbering in the millions.

Now, the major 25th-anniversary tour is arriving in Munich. It is a hit production that tells the story of the Beatles' evolution from a backing band into the world-famous "mop-top" group. The musical tours across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

They sold over a billion records and achieved the highest number of No. 1 albums in pop history. The songwriting duo of John Lennon and Paul McCartney—the most successful of all time—brought global fame to the four lads from Liverpool.
The Beatles' first performance at Hamburg's Star-Club is legendary; it was an event fondly remembered by Tommy Kent—a singer (rock 'n' roll and *Schlager*), actor, painter, and architect from Munich's Schwabing district.

It was here in 1961 that Munich singer and 1960s star Tommy Kent discovered the Beatles. A letter from Paul McCartney, featured in the exhibition "The Fantastic World of Tommy Kent," describes this event (link to article on the art and culture blog).

Hit producer Bernhard Kurz has once again demonstrated his knack for successful productions with this musical

"All You Need Is Love!" serves as a musical tribute to the Beatles—a project that earned hit producer Bernhard Kurz the "Artist Choice Award" for "Best Producer" in Las Vegas.

"All You Need Is Love! – The Beatles Musical" brings over 30 hits to the stage in Munich.

The performers impress with professional live vocals and a striking resemblance to the originals. Their acting talent—transporting the audience at the Deutsches Theater back 60 years during the spoken segments—is sure to captivate viewers. Featuring authentic costumes, video projections, and fantastic music, the Las Vegas-based band "Twist & Shout" demonstrates—through songs like "Help," "Love Me Do," "Yesterday," and "Hey Jude"—that the Beatles and their enduring appeal are immortal. It took less than a decade to go from being a backing band to sparking mass hysteria.
The musical in two acts:

•     The Beatles' beginnings in Hamburg (1960) as a backing band in strip clubs and pubs
•     Their first headline concerts
•     And then, the breakthrough in the States.

In the second part, "Beatlemania":

    Fans in a frenzy
    Beatles fashion
    And the spirit of the times

The climax (1970):

    The world-famous concert on the rooftop of the Apple Records label in London
    The breakup
    …

But the Beatles myth lives on to this day!

All you need is love!

From July 15th to 19th live in the German Theater

"The Beatles" - a letter from Paul McCartney - Hamburg 1961 (see foto)

The Beatles
Top Ten Club
136 Reeperbahn
Hamburg ALTON
Hamburg

Dear Dot + Margie,

as you see we got yours 
letters. Thanks for writing
We're enjoying our selves out 
here but the foods a bit funny.
but it's O.K. once you get used 
to it.

Stus not married yet,
But he may get married
in Tim - in the British
Consul. Anyway I'll tell him
you've sent him congratulations
etc...

Have you still got good 
sweaters with BEATLES 
on them? I bet you don't
wear them still.

The other night, on of
Germany's biggest rock + roll
stars came into the club
(His as well - known here as
Cliff is in England) Tommy
Kent's his name, and he
said we were the best group
he'd ever heard. Hope he meant it.

We've had offers to go to Spain and Austria, but we don't know if we're going yet.

I'll probably get too homesick and go back to Liverpool.

Thanks again for writing.

Best wishes - Paul (Beatles)

 

Letter from Paul McCartney displayed on a poster at a Munich exhibition dedicated to Tommy Kent (1942–2022); photo: Helga Waess

 

TIP:  fine art and collector's photographs of the Beatles in Munich

The "Galerie Stephen Hoffman - Fine Art Photography" gallery in Munich (behind the Hotel Bayerischer Hof) has fine art and collector's photographs of the Beatles—photographed and signed by famous photographers of the era, such as Terry O'Neill!

Exhibition tip: Sprengel Museum Hannover

 Hanover Lower Saxony - exhibition tip for photographic art by Barbara Probst

Barbara Probst "SUBJECTIVE EVIDENCE" - a sculptor models with the camera and creates new levels of perception

Sprengel Museum Hannover - photography exhibition by Barbara Probst from December 11th, 2024 to March 9th, 2025

Hanover. Her photos show, like classical sculptures, different perspectives and levels of perception. While the viewer usually wanders around a sculpture in order to grasp it as a whole, Barbara Probst's photographs take over the viewer's movement and show a motif from many sides. The photographing sculptor makes it easy for the art viewer: they can train their perception of art and experience new ways of seeing in the form archived in the photo. But: in the photo he only has a preselection of the viewer in front of him. A perspective that the artist provides. The exhibition “Subjective Evidence” by the photographer Barbara Probst was created in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, the Contemporary Arts Center from Ohio and the Sprengel Museum Hannover.

New Town Hall - Hanover, nearby on the banks of the Maschsee is the Sprengel Museum, photo: Waess

The artist Barbara Probst 

She was born in Munich in 1964. From 1984 to 1990 she studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. 

As a photographer, Probst has earned an international reputation in art with her post-conceptual photography. Her photography series introduce new perspectives and play with the perception of reality within the photographic image. In photographs taken at the same time, the same rooms and scenes are shown from ever new perspectives. 

Barbara Probst appears to be playing with the strategies of representation. Apparently trivial motifs such as a taxi or an apple are seen in a new way in multi-faceted representations and perspectives. 

The artist lives and works in New York and Munich.

  

The exhibition title “Subjective Evidence” highlights the central theme of Probst’s approach 

It's about the subjectivity of perception. In exciting dramaturgies, the artist reminds us that photography does not reflect objective reality, but always purely subjective perceptions that are inspired by the image and selected by the photographer.

Probst questions the “objectivity” of photography and points to a critical path to reflecting on the medium in our time.

Her series of images create a sequence of reality. We are reminded of different photographic genres. The exhibition is therefore also a journey through portrait photography, traditional still life, classic landscape photography and professional studio photography or practical photography.

Barbara Probst plans her serial works elaborately using graphic sketches

Before the photo comes the thought, the drawing, the plan and the selection of subject, light and location. Everyone sees the same scenes differently and - depending on their level of experience - perceives them differently. Probst photographs show the simultaneity of perspectives, which are visualized with technical precision.

Probst's conceptual approach and those hyper-staged realities have an aesthetically independent effect on the viewer and challenge playful, intellectual perception. 

Her works stand between the complexity of perception, the relativity of "reality" and the actual form of the object in the subjective reality of photography.

Barbara Probst "SUBJECTIVE EVIDENCE" 

• from December 11, 2024 to March 9, 2025

Sprengel Museum Hanover

Kurt Schwitters Square / Kurt Schwitters Platz

30169 Hanover

Opening hours

• Tuesday 10 a.m. – 8 p.m
• Wednesday to Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m
• Closed on Mondays

From the main train station you can reach the Sprengel Museum Hanover in fifteen minutes

 Equestrian statue in honor of the sovereign of the former Kingdom of Hanover, King Ernst August. Created in 1861 by Albert Wolff and installed on Ernst-August-Platz in front of the main train station in the Lower Saxony state capital, photo: Helga Waess