Only a few details remind you that the old potato warehouse was in the spotlight of the German musical world not so long ago. The red carpet at the entrance to the Werk 7 theater is now green, as is the logo and the green light, which was supposed to prevent 4,600 tons of potatoes from sprouting here. Culture of remembrance à la Pfanni. On a counter at the back of the concrete-grey foyer, a remainder of the "Fack ju...
A man, a woman, a parakeet: in the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof, the latter hovers in a cage above the heads of a well-to-do couple in an elegant, blue-grey living room. But he is also the eponym of the complex French conversation piece "The Parakeet" by Audrey Schebat, which was a great success when it premiered in 2017 at the Parisian boulevard theaters. In the comedy, Michaela May and Krystian Martinek embody the couple, who have been married for...
Joshi is angry. At school, Linus and the others laughed at him because of his pink tulle dress. It doesn't help that his mother thinks he's "brave". "But I don't think it's brave at all. I just like clothes," replies Joshi. In the premiere of "When the world learned to go backwards", the first play for a young audience by the Munich author Lena Gorelik ("More Black Than Purple") in the Pathos Theater, Joshi is a puppet. Just like the...
Although she never got a leading role, Rosl Mayr was one of the busiest German actresses in the 1970s. Wherever she appeared, the audience's laughter was guaranteed. And yet she died impoverished and lonely.from Hans KratzerHalf of Munich was still in ruins when the actress Rosl Mayr got a job as a prompter in the Kammerspiele. Since the actors hardly ever needed the help of the whisperer, Rosl Mayr began to knit in her stage chamber instead of leafing through...
"40 years of Polt and the Well brothers, resentful in the end" is the name of the evening that Gerhard Polt and three of the Well brothers on Wednesday and Thursday, January 5th and 6th, at 7.30pm and 7pm respectively in the Schauspielhaus der Chamber plays contest - and for which there are even remaining tickets at the box office. That would not have happened earlier - in pre-pandemic times, of course. Their joint appearances in the Kammerspiele were usually...
Nowhere are there stricter corona requirements for culture than in Bavaria. Andreas Beck, artistic director of the Munich Residenztheater, talks about everyday life in a house that can only be entered by those who really work hard.Interview by Christiane LutzOpen, closed, now open again, but under the strictest conditions: Andreas Beck, director of the Bavarian State Theater since autumn 2019, has spent more than half of his time in Munich in pandemic mode between postponing and moderating. Now he's sitting...
Ophelia's drowning and dying can be viewed aesthetically. In Shakespeare's work she floats on the water, surrounded by her clothes, like a creature that belongs in this element. Arthur Rimbaud compares Ophelia with a lily, the wind billows the veil "like an umbel". And then there are bursting blood vessels, putrefaction, putrefaction, gases that can be described. At least this is the case with "Ophelia - Exit Water" in the workshop of the Munich Kammerspiele so. Ophelia is allowed to...
One thing was clear to Sebastian Baumgarten: If you deal with Heiner Kipphardt's play "Bruder Eichmann" today, then you can't just stage it as it was back then, in 1983, at the premiere, a few months after the author's death. Then you have to feel your way. And Baumgarten turns it into a stream production. Now you are back in the same place, in the Residenztheater, where Dieter Giesing staged and Hans-Michael Rehberg played Adolf Eichmann. But what happens now...
One feels a little lost in the red plush ambience of the comedy in the Bayerischer Hof: 143 spectators in the 570-Stühle-Saal at the premiere of the adaptation of the hit movie "Willkommen bei den Hartmanns", Simon Verhoeven's satirical all-round look at the German "refugee crisis". So it is only a good thing that Jochen Busses' pre-recorded announcement encourages the brave crowd and wishes them a relaxing evening: All scientific studies, such as those of the Fraunhofer Institute, still show...
At the end of November it was over in the stables. In view of the new corona rules and the impending lockdown, the Residenztheater decided not to continue operating in the small venue. This is about to change: From Saturday, December 11th, the productions in the Marstall will also be shown again. On Tuesday, December 14th, the cinematic project will be unique "Brother Eichmann" to see, "Memories of a Girl", "There were six of her" and "The Unheard of" are...
