THE STORY STAGE

Hamburg, DE

About us

Everyone has a story.
Every person you pass on the street, sit beside on a train or work alongside has lived experiences you know nothing about.
Some are funny. Some are difficult. Some are extraordinary. Some seem completely ordinary until someone tells them.
The Story Stage was created to give some of those stories a room.
Real people. True stories. Told live.

STORY STAGE IN 78 SECONDS
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A ROOM FULL OF STORIES
We believe some of the most interesting stories are sitting in ordinary rooms, carried by people who may never think of themselves as storytellers.
You don't need a book deal, a large following or an extraordinary life to have a story worth telling.
You need to have lived something.
That's why Story Stage isn't built around professional speakers.
It's built around people.
Someone puts their name in the hat. A name is drawn. They step onto the stage. And for up to seven minutes, the room becomes theirs.

SOME COME TO TELL. SOME COME TO LISTEN.
You don't have to get on stage to be part of the Story Stage.
Come alone. Bring a friend. Grab a drink. Meet someone you didn't know before.
Then listen.
You might hear a story that makes you laugh. One that surprises you. One from a life completely different from yours.
Or one that makes you think, “I know exactly what that feels like”.
For a few hours, people who might otherwise have remained strangers get to know something real about one another.

HOW STORY STAGE WORKS
One theme. Ten people. Ten true stories. Up to seven minutes each. One evening.
Every Story Stage begins with a theme.
If you have a true story from your own life connected to that theme, you can put your name in the hat.
Names are drawn during the evening.
If yours comes out, the stage is yours for up to seven minutes.
Nobody knows exactly which stories the room will hear until the names come out of the hat.
That's part of the Story Stage.

THE STORY THAT STAYED
After ten stories, we ask everyone in the room one question:
Which story stayed with you most?
This isn't about choosing the most polished speaker.
It's about the story you're still thinking about when the final storyteller leaves the stage.
The audience votes, and one becomes:
The Story That Stayed.
One evening.
Ten true stories.
And one that the room carries with it.

CREATED BY PRESENTATION SCHOOL
The Story Stage is created by Presentation School.
Presentation School creates places and experiences where people can learn, practise and experience human communication.
Story Stage brings that interest in human communication into a social setting.
A room.
A theme.
A stage.
And true stories from lives we haven't lived ourselves.

EVERYONE HAS A STORY.
COME HEAR ONE.
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