Berlin (dpa) – Clearly.: The fronts are hardened. In open letters artist currently discharged from the conflict over the future of the Berlin Volksbühne. The man in the eye of the storm is Chris Dercon – and remains calm
Finally, the 57-year-old Belgian takes over his post as controversial successor of popular stage director Frank Castorf (64) until the summer of 2017. was normal. it that allowed the new time for the elaboration of his plans, which he would then at the earliest to introduce next spring
in summer 2017 is the way to give an equally drastic change in personnel also on traditional Berliner Ensemble.: There occurs theater Patriarch Claus Peymann from (79) and makes room for Oliver Reese (52) – of rebellion but no speech. For Peymann mixed already huge in the Dercon debate with and warned early that a quarter of a century guided by Castorf Anarcho-stage should by no means an event Bude be after commencement Dercon.
Since Berlin’s Ruling Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) announced last year, the Personnel Dercon, it ferments in the cultural scene. It’s true: Dercon is not a man of the theater, but an internationally networked Museum makers and cultural managers. Most recently, he was director of the London museum Tate Modern and 2003-2011 director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, where he worked among other things with Christoph Schlingensief and Ai Weiwei
Many people Stage Employees -. Including acting stars as Sophie Rois , Matthias Wuttke and Birgit Minichmayr – look forward to the new theater directors with great concern. “This theater directors is not a friendly takeover”, according to the recently published open letter of theater people. “He is an irreversible turning point and a break in the recent history of theater, while could be preserved in a dance and Festspielhaus before reclassification, the Volksbühne.” The Dercon opponents fear for the Volksbühne a “historic leveling and razing of identity.”
on the weekend made Dercon Museum friends and numerous international artists mobile and strengthened the future Volksbühne chief in an open letter back. Berlin was to be congratulated on its bold and inspired choice, “says the signed among others by Enwezor, director of the Munich Haus der Kunst, the architect David Chipperfield and Rem Koolhaas, the choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and filmmaker Alexander Kluge letter , “By supporting Chris Dercon, we hope that reason prevails over alarmist sensationalism,” said the signatories.
“The schedule further provides that Mr. Dercon will present his program in the spring of 2017″, said a spokesman for the Department of Culture on Monday. “You have Chris Dercon and the coaching staff now can work in peace.” Currently Dercon lead even further personal discussions.
“It is a normal process that when Intendant change in artistic workers by the so-called NV-Stage- Contracting out so-called non-renewal and non-renewal talks are launched.
As things stand, there are 20 to 25 non-renewal process. When non-artistic staff dismissals are not possible at the present or planned, “the spokesman said. In had the “Berliner Zeitung” reported.
With Franz Wille by the trade magazine “Theater heute” pushes the fierce debate to Dercon incomprehension. It is perfectly normal that two-thirds would be exchanged to three-quarters of the actor and artistic apparatus. “It’s a real reboot, which is a good thing.” The City Theatre should thus be prevented from becoming fiefdoms. And: “To be fair, one must now only give Mr. Dercon the opportunity to introduce and begin his program. One can not enter into the garbage, what we still do not know. “
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