Festival summer
Many familiar faces at the Bad Hersfeld Festival
Anna Loos plays Jenny from Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” in Bad Hersfeld. photo
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Anna Loos plays Jenny in Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera” at the traditional Bad Hersfeld Festival. Many other well-known actors will also appear in the monastery ruins.
At this year’s Bad Hersfeld Festival, the audience will see numerous well-known actors on stage. Anna Loos will play the role of Jenny in Bertolt Brecht’s “Threepenny Opera”, which opens the games on June 21st in the medieval monastery ruins. At her side are Aljoscha Stadelmann (police chief “Tiger Brown”) and Simon Zigah (“Mackie Messer”).
“In this festival summer, music plays a crucial role in all pieces,” said director Joern Hinkel on Tuesday a few days before rehearsals began. “It was a great task to find artists who would delight our audience both in terms of their performances and with their musical talents and fantasies.”
Since Anna Loos was unable to attend 5 of the 20 performance dates of the Threepenny Opera due to other engagements Bad Hersfeld, the drag artist Lilo Wanders will take on the role of Jenny on these days, according to the festival management. The piece is directed by the Austrian director Michael Schachermaier.
Broadway classic “A Chorus Line”
Director Hinkel will direct the drama “As in Heaven” himself. The premiere is on July 26th. The ensemble includes the former No Angels singer Sandy Mölling, the two TV veterans Horst Janson and Brigitte Grothum as well as Henry Arnold.
The cast of the musical “A Chorus Line,” which will be performed for the first time on June 22nd, has not yet been announced. The premiere is awaited with particular excitement, as the festival says it will be able to bring the Broadway classic to the stage in an independent production and choreography for the first time in German-speaking countries.
With more than 90,000 visitors last year, the festival in Bad Hersfeld is one of the largest and most traditional in Germany.