The Metropoltheater plays again: On Saturday, December 3, the house resumes its production of "Alice" by Robert Wilson and Tom Waits. The piece is daydream and nightmare, poetry and psycho trip, combines music and acting into a light, floating form of musical theatre. In 2017 director Philipp Moschitz staged "Alice" and gave the Metropoltheater a hit. The play is a nexus of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll's obsessive relationship with his fashion model, Alice...
Igor Stravinsky's Violin Concerto from 1931 makes it impressively clear that dryness can be sensual, that distance can be attractive and that elegant coolness should not be confused with harsh cold. Provided that a violinist who is as familiar with all the violin literature as Frank Peter Zimmermann plays on this evening in the Isarphilharmonie with the Munich Philharmonic under the baton of conductor Dima Slobodeniuk, who stepped in for the ailing Mikko Frank. Then it flashes and tingles, then...
Literature, thought differently: the writer reads a text, the mood of which the musician underscores electro-acoustically, while the comic author draws and the dancer moves. The art forms overlap, impulses like a chain letter. The freestyle rapper positions himself, keywords from the audience become rhyming lines.This evening of improvisation is called "Fabulous" and it breaks the boundaries of what is normally understood by a reading. The evening at Zirka Space in the creative district (December 1) is part of the...
A selection of services and church concerts in Munich on the first Sunday in Advent, November 27th. The current hygiene rules apply to the services, wearing an FFP2 mask is recommended.Catholic Churchesin the Liebfrauendom Auxiliary Bishop Wolfgang Bischof celebrates the main service on the 1st Sunday in Advent at 10 a.m. accompanied by the Capella Cathedralis under the direction of Domkantor Benedikt Celler, which among other things recites the "Missa secunda" by Hans Leo Haßler; at 5.15 p.m., cathedral priest...
At first you don't know exactly: is it good news or bad news? The two Munich publishers, the "Drei Maske Verlag" and the "Theaterstückverlag" merged. In times of crisis and especially in a time after the lockdown, when there were hardly any performances and thus hardly any income for theater publishers, the situation is not exactly rosy. But Dirk Olaf Hanke, head of the Drei Maske publishing house, and Brigitte Korn-Wimmer, founder of the theater play publishing house, clearly oppose...
For the first time since Jewish students had raised serious anti-Semitism allegations against the Metropoltheater and the play "Vögel" performed there, the critics and artistic director Jochen Schölch met for a discussion. The exchange on Tuesday evening lasted almost two hours, and the day after that everyone involved rated it as a successful start to a dialogue. The atmosphere was respectful and constructive, and this was the language agreed upon after the confidential meeting.The parties did not report any concrete...
His energy seems inexhaustible. Serhij Zhadan has just spoken in front of hundreds of listeners in the packed Muffathalle and received standing ovations. He then spent almost an hour and a half signing the books of an incredibly long line of people waiting. Um now late Monday evening with his ska band Zhadan i Sobaky to create a powerful mood in the Ampere: Even when some people go home exhausted in the last hour before midnight, Zhadan just keeps powering...
After allegations of anti-Semitism, the Munich Metropoltheater canceled the play. The historian Natalie Zemon Davis is of Jewish descent and was closely involved in its creation. Why she is now asking the theater manager to continue playing "Birds".As a historical consultant for Wajdi Mouawad's play "Birds", I was dismayed to learn that the Munich Metropoltheater canceled further performances after several Jewish students complained that the play was anti-Semitic. source site
What is the debate about?It is about the play "Birds" by Wajdi Mouawad, which premiered on October 6th in the Metropoltheater in Freimann, which was privately funded but supported by the city of Munich. It deals with the Middle East conflict, questions of origin and religion and is both a family and a love story. It tells the story of the young, Jewish scientist Eitan, who falls in love with the Arabic doctoral student Wahida in New York, whom he...
Soft was the new cool. tears were ok Philipp Poisel brought this to the Germans in songs like "Where does your sky begin?" at. He lived that himself, transparent, amorous, mumbled, frail. Maybe that's why people were worried about the Ludwigsburg man when things got quieter after the number 1 album "Mein Amerika". Especially during Corona: "How is a person supposed to endure that?" But one heard: He is studying. He models. He's beaming - with his fourth album "Neon"...
