Five people looking for a way out of a horrible department store window display, this can be summarized the youngest theater evening in the famous widely for great entertainment Art Berliner Schaubühne. In fact, you can see the funny untwisted actresses Jule Böwe and Julischka glans and their equally well-tempered male colleague Paul Grill, Peter René Lüdicke and Tilman Strauss almost two and a half hours while as they shuffle and dance stupid between three dozen bull end mannequins and always make scratched announcements , They talk about the Beatles, Brown turntable and German former Nazis. And through a couple of German terrorists who later under the name Red Army Faction fear and spread terror, but in the sixties of the Federal Republic of Germany nor contented themselves herumzuzündeln in department stores as a sign of protest against capitalism, war and boredom.
one can arsonists already a little understood at this stage evening. Quoted is a theater version of the giant novel “The Invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969″, with the writer Frank Witzel has won in the past fall the German Book Prize. To visit but is a spatial installation. The Designer Katrin Brack, much praised for their often overwhelming image invasions, has decked female, male and child mannequins plastic with colorful, somehow sixties-esque bourgeois clothes. Then she has the dolls crisscross, sometimes spread with his back to the audience, on stage. The director Armin Petras provides five actors and a three-member rock band in this hidden object into it – and lets them play nice, but cross braves Showcase Theater.How to bring to the stage?
This is all the more unfortunate because Witzel book is a marvel of narrative forms, practically in its 98 chapters on 800 pages every shade of human memory is tried: interrogation and poetry, diary entry and interview, scholarly treatise and crazy digression. A thirteen-a-half year-old who is as the author Witzel born in 1955, lived through a terror youth in provincial Germany – and looks between adults of perspective back to this period. Witzel hero tells of a stay of the young hero in psychiatry, of Catholic faith delusion, by the magic of certain pop songs and a thousand exciting things more. And he tries to understand from these stresses exact sensing the presence; he wants as one says in the book, “to clarify how it was then and as it is today”.
How to bring to the stage? The director Armin Petras is something of an expert on the evocation of yesteryear by fleetingly sketched biographical episodes. He has “time to love time to die” under his playwright Fight name Fritz Kater himself poetically enigmatic, remembrance drunken pieces as written and proven sense of atmospheric finesse in many productions. Petras has much of his young years spent in the GDR, which he may take a fresh look could give to those described in Witzel Roman splendor and misery-years of the FRG, but which one hundred puzzle pieces that make up the magical cosmos of “the invention of the Red army faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969″ composed.
Perhaps it lacked even to both
in fact, Petras had, the way in Stuttgart is a theater director, to appear to either not enough time or not enough desire – maybe even lacked both. Against the wild complexity of Frank Witzel storytelling he is at least on stock sober reduction. Therefore, we see five highly motivated drama artists to this as very subjective selected scenes and phrases from the book recite more than play. This often do the three super young musicians of the band The Nerve bombastic loud rock music that sounds mostly by seventies, once they play a hymn Pink Floyd tribute. This is all very amusing and, unfortunately, a little care.
Witzel book is about seemingly disparate things, people and stories. From chocolate bars and Che Guevara, auto brands and the streets in the Wiesbaden borough Biebrich, from the suddenly verstummenden mother of the young hero and the importance of rubber and plastic in the work of Lennon / McCartney and Frank Zappa. Always, however, it comes in Witzel wüstem Verhau of brand customer, structuralism seminar and terrorism-history to accuracy. For Petras, it’s all about Approximate. He cites the punch of a coming-of-age story and lets his actors Gummitwist play, but without elastic in pantomime; he shows an awkward conversation in the confessional, in the confessional is improvised with a maintained his face colander. That’s funny, all right – only it misses the equally comical, but completely different funny Spirit of the original book already quite complete.
In the end, after almost two and a half hours, the actors of this theater evening talking still a threat out. “I just feel like we should again start from scratch,” said Jule Böwe. And one of their players jumping with her: “I have a feeling that I could now tell it exactly So, what really happened..” These sentences are just as at the end of Witzel book. Only they sound there as a great promise.
The invention of the Red Army Faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 . Schaubühne Berlin, next performances on 11, 12.4 and 8.5., Tel. 030/89 00 23
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