Volksbühne in turmoil – Berliner Morgenpost

06.22.2016, 03:01

From Volker sheet

Chris Dercon has to the theater people openly approach

the question of whether Chris Dercon the right man at the wrong place is coming back into the discussion. The majority of people Stage Employees has called in an open letter to their new boss. Undoubtedly, the Belgians had made a director of the London Tate Modern a good name, but then he was appointed as the successor of theater legend Frank Castorf to Volksbühne boss. An art expert to the tradition Theater accept – a very bold choice. Since then Dercon is implicated in Berlin grave struggles that hurt him more harm than good. The matter is procedural, because his tenure begins in the summer of 2017 and he will not comment on many things.

Meanwhile, go to the theater fears. An “irreversible turning point” is feared also that jobs and the “settlement of entire trades”. Dercon represents a new beginning, whereas there is nothing. On the contrary.

But Berlin’s cultural policy, ahead Culture Secretary Tim Renner, forget Dercon to pave the way to the theater. There is evidence of ignorance, like good theater work. The Volksbühne is a growing apparatus with all the advantages and disadvantages of peer pressure. The conspiratorial of leftist intellectual provocation theater is underestimated. At the Volksbühne one runs on top form when somewhere finds an opponent. Now he’s Dercon. And the actions are probably rude, the closer the handover. Dercon has no choice but as soon as possible and as open as possible to go to all theater people. And considering how he somehow can embed in its concept as an actor Sophie Rois, Birgit Minichmayr and Martin Wuttke or theater people like René Pollesch, Jürgen Kuttner, Carl Hegemann and Anna Viebrock, all of which are signatories. Creates Dercon, he is in the right place. Page 15 report