new piece
It’s about “legal highs”. About drugs and trust. And the question of how on earth an evening that starts with a harmless joint can spiral into violence. But the joint wasn’t that harmless. What Paula and her friends are smoking is Spice, artificial marijuana, and that knocks one or the other off with serious consequences. “Legal Highs” is the name of the new piece by the Young Pathos collective, which was enthusiastically celebrated at the premiere and will be performed three more times next weekend.
Absolutely worth seeing: “Legal Highs”, performed by the Young Pathos collective.
(Photo: Patrik Thomas/Young Pathos collective)
director Chris Hohenester has once again succeeded in motivating its young performers to perform at their best. They didn’t know each other before, then they rehearsed together for four months, and in the end they grew into an ensemble ready for the stage. That is the principle of the Young Pathos collective, which Hohenester has been leading since 2019. It is aimed at people between the ages of 14 and 24 who are enthusiastic about dance, theater and performance. For the first time, the director took on an existing text, the play “Legal Highs” by the young Munich author Rinus Silzle. It’s a black comedy about not only the drugs of the day, but also about social differences and prejudices. With music by Pink Floyd and The Doors Hohenester builds a bridge to her own generation, the fast-paced choreography creates excitement. And each of the five actors demonstrates a very special talent. Absolutely worth seeing. And it’s a good thing that such projects are funded. Performances Thursday, June 22nd to Saturday, June 24th, in the creative district, Dachauer Straße 110d, | each 8 p.m.
New sounds
Andreas Götz follows Karl Maureen as a church musician in Sacred Heart.
(Photo: Stefan Kiderle/Robert Kiderle photo agency)
“The organ in the heart of Jesus has potential for addiction,” enthuses Andreas Goetz. Since the beginning of May he has been at the pedals and keys of the Woehl organ in the Neuhauser church with its well-known modern architecture. Born in Starnberg, he studied church music in Munich and deepened his studies in Paris. He worked in the Westend for 26 years. With a concert featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt and Max Reger, Götz, successor to organ professor Karl Maureen, will make his debut in Herz Jesu at Lachnerstrasse 8 on Sunday, June 25, 7 p.m. in the series “Open Gates “. Admission is free.
New tip
Active for young people: the board of directors of the district youth council in Munich-City.
(Photo: KJR)
The Kreisjugendring München-Stadt (KJR) is the largest youth association in Germany and it is a big task to preside over it. This arises again for the next two years Judith Greil, 34, division manager of the DGB youth as chairwoman. The compliance manager became her deputy Leander Gerl, 37, elected by the Diversity Munich association. The social worker is new to the management team Svenja Gutzeit24, from the Federation of German Catholic Youth, the deaconess Michaela Kleemann36, from the Evangelische Jugend as well as the engineer Alexander Rix30, from the youth organization of the Federal Nature Conservation and the student Sidal Tas, 24, from the Alevi Youth (BDAJ). were re-elected Fatih Demirtas30, (DGB Youth Munich), Catherine Mayer, 26, (German Alpine Club) and Hans Radspieler, 62, from the Munich sports youth. He has been on the KJR board since 1990. The new board members named the topics of housing, open spaces, participation and mobility as the focus of their work.
new role
“Doing something right wrong”: actor Timocin Ziegler.
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Not preparing really well is usually a sign of laziness. But sometimes there is a plan behind it, like with Timocin Ziegler: The actor said at this year’s Berlinale that he deliberately didn’t want to understand what was happening. The feature film “Until the End of the Night” was screened in competition there, and for Ziegler it was his first leading role in a feature film. He plays a police officer who is hired to work undercover with a woman-turned-man against a drug dealer. Who he was with – and who he might still love. Sounds confusing, but that’s exactly what makes this queer thriller melodrama so appealing: Director Christoph Hochhäusler tells a story about gender identity and deception in the best Fassbinder tradition, his main actors (Ziegler and Thea Ehrlich, who won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale) are one at the mercy of a real emotional roller coaster ride. They stalk, war and desire each other, in a love scene they get very close – and yet they are separated by a pane of glass.
It was about doing something “really wrong,” said Timocin Ziegler in Berlin. And he was pretty much right about that: his film career is off to a good start, he was only recently seen in the “Polizeiruf 110” episode “Paranoia”, he also took on roles in “Tatort” or in “Passau-Krimi”. He was born in 1986 in Eggenfelden, Lower Bavaria, and studied at the renowned drama school “Ernst Busch” in Berlin. In 2016 he came to Munich, the theater audience knows him from the Volkstheater: There he was seen in “Hedda Gabler”, Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” or Tabori’s “Mein Kampf”. In July he will be back on stage in “The Goldberg Variations”. Before that, however, his film will be in the cinemas: “Until the end of the night” starts on June 22nd.
new decade
Heiner Keupp, who has just turned 80, is investigating cases of abuse.
(Photo: Alessandra Schellnegger)
The Munich social psychologist Heiner Keupp turned 80 years old. He has been driving the investigation into sexual abuse in Germany for years and has been a member of the independent investigation commission set up by the Bundestag since 2016. Keupp studied, did his doctorate and habilitated in Munich and was a professor of social and community psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität for 30 years. He examined sexualised violence in projects that dealt with it, for example at the Ettal monastery boarding school or at the Odenwald school.