"There's nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure." — Jim Butcher
THE BEAR Hamburg presents
La Famiglia
Stories from the heart & hearth
Eight stories. Eight storytellers. All true. Told live.
Family — the people we're born into, the ones we choose, the ones we can't get rid of, and the ones we wish we'd held onto longer. On May 29th, eight people step up to share a true story from their own life — no notes, no script, just the real thing.
What to expect
🎤 Eight storytellers, drawn at random from a hat ⏳ Five to seven minutes each — no notes, no props 🎶 Stories held and carried by live music 🗳 The audience votes for the story that moved them most 🍷 An intimate evening in Hamburg-Horn
Four stories. A short break. Four more. Two hours that tend to stay with you.
After 90+ shows and over 1,000 stories across Germany, THE BEAR keeps bringing together locals, expats, and internationals for evenings like this one.
Language
Hosted in English. Stories in both English and German — roughly half and half.
You don't need to understand every word to feel a story. Emotion travels beyond language. Every voice is welcome here, whatever language it comes in.
Event details
📍 Horner Freiheit – Das Stadtteilhaus, Hamburg
🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026
🕖 Doors 18:30 | Stories begin 19:00
🎙 Host: Deepanker Dua
🎶 Live music: Waldemar Frost & Fabi
🎟 Tickets: €15 regular · €10 solidarity (no questions asked) Intimate venue. Limited seats. Book early.
Do you have a story to tell?
A 5–7 minute true story about family — something you lived, something you've been carrying, something you've never quite said out loud?
First-time storytellers are especially welcome. Write to: hello@thebear-storytelling.de
Show host THE BEAR Hamburg Eduard Kirschner.
🇩🇪 Kurzinfo auf Deutsch
THE BEAR Hamburg lädt ein zu einem Abend mit acht wahren, persönlichen Geschichten — live erzählt, ohne Notizen.
Thema des Abends: La Famiglia — Geschichten rund um Familie, Herkunft und Zugehörigkeit.
Die acht Storyteller:innen werden am Abend zufällig aus dem Hut gezogen. Jede Geschichte dauert 5–7 Minuten.
🎙 Moderation: Deepanker Dua (auf Englisch)
📖 Geschichten: Mischung aus Deutsch & Englisch
🎶 Live-Musik zwischen den Geschichten
🗓 29. Mai 2026 | Horner Freiheit
🕖 Einlass 18:30 | Beginn 19:00
🎟 15 € | 10 € Soli
Begrenzte Plätze — frühzeitig sichern.
THE BEAR Hamburg is made possible by the generosity of our storytellers, our volunteers, our venue partner HORNER FREIHEIT - DAS STADTTEILHAUS, public speaking training Moving Speaker, and the Verein zur Förderung der Kunst des biographischen Geschichtenerzählens e.V.
Storyteller Yuliana Popovych on stage at THE BEAR; photo Emmi Mascher.
THE BEAR präsentiert möglich gemacht durch die großzügigen Beiträge unserer Erzähler*innen, unseres ehrenamtlichen Teams sowie durch den Verein zur Förderung der Kunst des biographischen Geschichtenerzählens e.V.
Ein besonderer Dank gilt unseren Partnern HORNER FREIHEIT - DAS STADTTEILHAUS und dem Rhetorik- und Speaker-Training Moving Speaker..
Falls du diese Show verpasst, kannst du in unserem Podcast wunderschöne Geschichten aus der ersten Reihe erleben - liebevoll produziert von THE BEAR und überall dort zu hören, wo du deine Podcasts hörst.
Moving Speaker Rhetorik- und Speaker-Training
Stories connect us.
Because we all have stories to tell.
Please support our mission to bring compassion into our communities through the Art of Autobiographical Storytelling.
We thank you for your generosity.
Verein zur Förderung der Kunst des biographischen Geschichtenerzählens e.V.
IBAN: DE25 8306 5408 0005 2236 28
Or you can buy the team some cups of coffee for those long nights… Thank you.