Interviewed by Yvonne Poppek, AugsburgThe ideas of the cultural anthropologist, musician and performance artist Julian Warner for the Brecht Festival in Augsburg are new, and sometimes strange and unexpected. Warner, born in 1985, chose Lechhausen as the festival location for the 125th birthday of the poet Bertolt Brecht. There shouldn't be a classic like "Mother Courage" there, but instead a banquet, parade, and later also wrestling. Also, food comes first, then morale. Why? He can explain that conclusively and with...
It couldn't get much more lively than Flimm: Richard Strauss in New York, the "Ring" in Bayreuth and Handel in Zurich. With him goes the most successful theater maker of the last fifty years. An obituary.From Willie WinklerIf his private mythology is to be believed, then Jürgen Flimm has always suffered from the competition with his brother Dieter, who is two years his senior. He played the drums, and that's why the girls adored him and not him, the little...
He was quiet and he was funny. Once I was leaving the hotel in New York and happened to meet him on the street, "Darling," he said, "I'm going to Robert Wilson's, it's nice that you're there too, come with me." And once he called me and said: "Darling, I'm director in Salzburg, you know, right? Give the opening speech at the festival, someone has to read the riot act for them, you can do that." And once I called...
The director and director Jürgen Flimm is dead. He died on Saturday at the age of 81, as the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden announced. At first, among other things, Cologne City Gazette reported about it.Born on July 17, 1941 to a Protestant family of doctors, Flimm studied theater studies, German and sociology in Cologne. He began his directing career in 1968 as an assistant to Fritz Kortner and Claus Peymann at the Munich Kammerspiele. As a theater director...
Julian Warner directs the Augsburg Brecht Festival for the first time. Instead of rummaging through the works of the poet Bertolt Brecht, he prefers to link his ideas with the here and now. How does that work?Interviewed by Yvonne Poppek, AugsburgThe ideas of the cultural anthropologist, musician and performance artist Julian Warner for the Brecht Festival in Augsburg are new, and sometimes strange and unexpected. Warner, born in 1985, chose Lechhausen as the festival location for the 125th birthday of...
The question of whether Bertolt Brecht likes Augsburg has been clarified. "Yes, I like Augsburg," comes the answer. "It's a beautiful city with a rich history and culture. I have many fond memories of my time there and I always love to come back." Admittedly, that sounds very formal and unbrokenly positive. Perhaps Brecht should hone his words a bit more. Or rather, the artificial intelligence GPT3 should do this. Especially for the Brecht Festival from February 10th to 19th...
It's a topic that's often relegated to the corner of the brain that's responsible for repression: care in old age. Politicians have shown it, the problem can be ignored until an emergency arises. Then it flies in your face, to put it mildly. One would not necessarily have guessed that old age, care and also the approaching death due to old age are subjects that one day push their way onto the stage. Who likes to look at what they...
Olivier Py during the Avignon Festival, July 5, 2022. NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP Olivier Py has been appointed to the artistic direction of the Théâtre du Châtelet, announced the town hall of Paris, Wednesday 1er February, confirming information from Figaro. The 57-year-old former director of the Avignon Festival will have the mission of replacing the current co-directors, Ruth Mackenzie and Thomas Lauriot dit Prévost. The appointment of a "huge artist, acclaimed all over the world" is “a guaranteed promise of...
Now the curators are also coming to dance. The model proved its worth in Kassel, as can be seen in the brilliant piece "Urlicht". source site
1000 pages in 130 minutes: Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" in a quick version at the Burgtheater in Vienna. source site
