# The Pink List – 2026 Adelaide Fringe

**Featured** — On Your Markus  
**Published:** 5 February 2026  
**Author:** Markus Hamence  
**Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/the-pink-list-2026-adelaide-fringe/

A haunting, powerful one-man musical about survival, silence, and being erased from history. West Germany.The war is over — but for Karl, it never really ended. In this deeply moving one-person musical, we meet a gay concentration camp survivor who finds himself on trial again. While Nazi laws have been dismantled, the legislation used to persecute…

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**A haunting, powerful one-man musical about survival, silence, and being erased from history.**

West Germany.  
The war is over — but for Karl, it never really ended.

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In this deeply moving one-person musical, we meet a gay concentration camp survivor who finds himself on trial *again*. While Nazi laws have been dismantled, the legislation used to persecute homosexual men remains in place — and the same lists once used by the Nazis are still being used by police.

Those lists were called **The Pink List**.

Written and performed by **Michael Trauffer**, this extraordinary work gives voice to stories that were deliberately forgotten. Through song, storytelling, and raw, intimate performance, Karl’s life unfolds — love, fear, survival, and the devastating cost of being denied recognition as a victim.

This is theatre that is spare, beautiful, and devastating in its honesty. One performer. One story. A history that demands to be heard.

Following acclaimed seasons at **Edinburgh Fringe**, **Brighton Fringe**, and **Fringe World Perth**, *The Pink List* arrives at Holden Street for a limited Adelaide season.

★★★★★ “A must-watch”  
★★★★★ “Captivating and awakening”

**WHAT YOU’LL SEE & FEEL**

• A powerful solo performance that holds the room in silence  
• Music that carries memory, grief, and resilience  
• A story erased from history – and reclaimed on stage  
• Theatre that stays with you long after you leave

**Ruby’s at Holden Street Theatres**

20 February – 8 March 2026  
Limited season

This is not easy theatre.  
But it is essential.

**[Book tickets now](https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/the-pink-list-af2026)**

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