The eponymous hero of Jacques-Louis David's oil painting "Leonidas at Thermopylae" (1814) proudly presents his muscular, stark naked masculinity with saber and shield on the Gärtnerplatz stage for Josef E. Köpplinger's production of Jacques Offenbach's "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein", which was released shortly before Corona in March 2020 at the Semperoper Dresden. Because the "lady" finds everything that has to do with the military attractive and sexy, even or especially when her soldiers in the miniature state "Gerolstein" play...
The last time Bonn Park directed at Munich's Volkstheater, his evening came out on an unforgettable weekend of premieres. His high school opera "Gymnasium" was one of the opening productions of the new venue on Tumblingerstraße. Anyone interested in theater in Munich was somehow there. Bonn Park is now working on Tumblingerstrasse for the second time, and this time its production is also part of a strong premiere weekend.Only this time the evenings are scattered throughout the city: Kammerspiele and...
How nice: There will also be theater at the Berlin Theatertreffen this year. As always, since the first Theatertreffen 60 years ago, an independent jury of critics has been responsible for selecting the ten particularly notable productions. The fact that this is news and not a matter of course is due, among other things, to the irritating statements made by Matthias Pees, the artistic director of the Berliner Festspiele, who was appointed last year. When he took office, he thought...
The last time Bonn Park directed at Munich's Volkstheater, his evening came out on an unforgettable weekend of premieres. His high school opera "Gymnasium" was one of the opening productions of the new venue on Tumberlingerstrasse. Anyone interested in theater in Munich was somehow there. Bonn Park is now working in Tumblingerstraße for the second time, and this time its production is also part of a strong premiere weekend. Only this time the evenings are scattered throughout the city: Kammerspiele...
The Pathos Theater now officially has a semi-new management duo: Judith Huber, who has been running the independent theater since 2018 - initially together with Lea Ralfs - is now joined by the author and long-time social worker Jan Geiger. Geiger, born in 1987, has been the deputy director of the Pathos Theater since autumn 2022 and is familiar with the circumstances and the two venues, the Pathos and the Schwere Reiter. The time-honored theater of the independent scene should...
"I'm interested in language as an organ," writes Kathrin Röggla. And this organ comes from all sides, goes in all directions, is nothing static - and thus also something that goes beyond every figure. Kathrin Röggla, born in 1971, writes prose texts and dramas and has received several awards for this. The author researches meticulously for her plays, for example on fear of flying and other phobias, on the debt trap or on the specific case of Natascha Kampusch. It...
There are rooms that call to receive you immediately. The small hall of the court theater in the Sendlinger Stemmerhof is certainly one of them. It is a mixture of the improvised and the planned, of the leftovers and the new. The stage has appropriated the space sympathetically, since it doesn't really belong in this strange construction. There are around 100 seats in front of and next to the play platform. Two-person plays have a good place on this one,...
Even the stage design sets the tone for this show of dubiousness: an oversized, evil clown grimace whose throat serves as an entrance and exit for the actors of "Freaks". The new gop show takes place at a rather spooky than happy fair, associates the so-called "freak shows" of the century before last, an exploitation of human non-normality that served the audience's thirst for sensation until the 1920s.When a show today revives this delicate chapter of entertainment history, it's doubly...
Is the Corona crisis over at the theater? How some houses are just getting full again - and a very prominent one but not. source site
According to Andrea Gronemeyer, director of Schauburg, "feeding but not overfeeding" audiences in the pre-linguistic stage is the declared aim of "Kuckuck", the theater festival for beginners. "You can't do as much as a Schauburg as there is demand for the offer for the very youngest in Munich," she says at the presentation of this year's festival program in the evangelical family educational center Elly Heuss Knapp ("Elly"). Accordingly, the tickets for the eight invited productions of "Kuckuck" are already...
