Black Table · Aachen
In the three-country corner stands a table where physics takes a break
Close-up magic at arm’s length — just across the border, in Aachen.
The promise
Aachen, Maastricht and Liège sit so close together that an evening across the border is barely an excursion. At the Black Table, guests from all three countries sit around the same black table every night. One thing up front, so the evening delivers what it promises: the shows are performed in German.
Across the border
Astonishment needs no translation. The evening around it does.
The core of this art gets by without language. A card you shuffled yourself turns up in the wrong place — no dictionary required, the whole table understands at once. That is why Dutch and Belgian guests are in the room every night, and why the three-country corner works here as a single audience.
Honesty is still owed: the hosting, the anecdotes and the undertones of the evening are in German. If your German is good, you miss nothing. If you catch only fragments, you will get the wonders but not the punchlines — and those make up a fair share of the evening. Better to know that beforehand than afterwards.
The pages of this website exist in English and Dutch to make planning easier: programmes, prices, dates and group enquiries. Only the evening itself stays German.
How an evening unfolds
Arrive
A glass of sparkling to welcome you — warm light, quiet laughter, reality turns a little softer.
Enjoy
Good food and drinks; at the big shows, tarte flambée in the interval.
Marvel
Close-up magic within reach — right at the black table, in the middle of you all.
Why Black Table
on Google — from guests who have been here
seats — no seat more than four metres from the table
evenings a year — a permanent house, not a guest run
In guests’ own words
Two sentences that say it all.
„A firework of magic tricks.“
„To this day I can’t work out how any of it is done.“
Practical
Right in Aachen, easily found.
Borngasse 30, 52064 Aachen — inside the Cineplex (Kapuziner Karree, 1st floor), step-free by lift. Car parks are a short walk away.
An evening usually lasts around two hours; doors normally open 20 minutes before the start with a glass of sparkling. The exact time is shown with each date.
Frequently asked
Questions about magic show Maastricht
What language are the shows performed in?
German. The magic itself needs no language, the hosting does — if your German is good, you get the full evening.
Where is the theatre?
In Aachen, Borngasse 30 inside the Kapuziner Karree (first floor of the Cineplex building), close to the Dutch and Belgian borders.
Do Dutch guests come too?
Almost every night. The three-country corner is one audience here — guests from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany sit around the same table.
One of the 62 seats still has your name on it tonight.
Over 240 evenings a year — but only 62 seats each night.