D a it is so. The guy did not have in Berlin. The all been abused before he could ever imagine in the city. Which they nasty Event Culture and shallow level accused. Chris Dercon, 56, Belgians, yet director of the Tate Modern in London, now director of the Berlin Volksbühne. Cool he sits in the Red City Hall of Berlin next stocksteifem Mayor Michael Müller. The black shirt wide open, jeans, sneakers, white mane, beard after Seemansart. So casual and cosmopolitan is Dercon, such as the city of Berlin would like to be in their best moments and is even. Even he can perfect German. Why did not it all? Fear of change?
Dercon experienced a “theatrical thunder”
What Berlin had moaned and raged. A museum man as a theater director! Can he do this? Do we want to? What’s this all about? Chris Dercon wondered much what was in the past few weeks everything had befallen him. “A theatrical thunder and then another and another one – it was like in Bayreuth” With Peymann, 77, had all started. The eloquent man of the theater yelled out in an open letter to the Mayor of Berlin and his anger at the Berlin politics, especially on Culture Secretary Tim Renner. A complete miscast was the, “an empty, nice white shirt”. And: “The environment is being destroyed not only by nuclear power plants, but also by people like Renner, produce cultural crap.”
Aircraft Hangar Dance and Performance
The bastard at issue, So now sits there and tells what he plans so for this city that he finds great, in which he will soon move in which he already has friends like the architect David Chipperfield, conductor Simon Rattle and yes, even the not-Volksbühne director Frank Castorf.
He raves about the Volksbühne, which always also used the city as a stage and taking into. From the lovely Rosa Luxembourg Square with the theater, the cinema Babylon, the houses of the twenties, the Office of the Left Party. Something’s not’s in London. And then this huge Tempelhof Field! A 3500-square-foot airplane hangar he wants to make use of dance and performance. Choreographers, musicians, directors Invite as the filmmaker Romuald Karmakar, dancer Boris Charmatz, the author Alexander Kluge.
Too much event-culture? Oh, there were at the Volksbühne always. Are potato salad battles, Hitler salute performances and eccentric and pompous four-hour productions about any events?
Theatre as great freedom?
Berlin should look forward to Chris Dercon. He will shake up a lot here, but definitely not destroy anything. “I’m interested, while the theater in the 21st century can go: Very far” he says. So far, that young directors should make short films on youtube to wear the theater in the digital world. Such dreams and ideas he has. But he wants to leave the Tate Modern, this museum class. Is it perhaps a little bored and annoyed by the art world? Well: “Art is much more durchökonomisiert than the theater,” said Dercon. Theater as a great freedom, then? “I want to get involved, find out how the culture of the future works.” , One’s for sure: in 2017 it will be exciting – Chris Dercon for – and for Berlin
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