Staatstheater Braunschweig | Germany
Above, birds beneath the firmament, below, people under pressure
A woman is pregnant. An idea is born. The new idea has a hard time. The unborn child moves and kicks the woman. Times are changing. But we actually ought to be happy. Everything is normal. Only there in the background, an attempt has failed, a new idea has crashed.
Two teams of authors and directors in Zagreb and Braunschweig have taken a closer look at David Schwarz, the pioneer of aerostatics, within the frame of the cooperation project Achtung: Pioniere! between the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the z|k|m|. The Croatian author Ivana Sajko wrote a composition of scenic images based on Schwarz's unsuccessful attempt to create a dirigible airship well before the invention of the Zeppelin. The painting The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruegel the Elder, is both the starting point and destination of Sajko’s text surface in which normality and catastrophe as well as everyday life and revolution overlap. Daniela Löffner, resident director in Braunschweig, uses the text as instructions for a painting and has staged a scenic collapse with German and Croatian actors.
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Text Ivana Sajko Director Daniela Löffner With Moritz Dürr, Sven Hönig, Hanno Koffler, Klaus Lembke, Hans-Werner Leupelt, Doris Šarić-Kukuljica, Mattias Schamberger, Louisa von Spies, Martina Struppek Set and Costumes Claudia Kalinski Dramaturgy Katrin Breschke Coproduction Festival Theaterformen, z|k|m| Cooperation partners Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz, Goethe Institut Zagreb
Supported by Fonds Wanderlust of the German Federal Cultural Foundation
Above, birds beneath the firmament, below, people under pressure
A woman is pregnant. An idea is born. The new idea has a hard time. The unborn child moves and kicks the woman. Times are changing. But we actually ought to be happy. Everything is normal. Only there in the background, an attempt has failed, a new idea has crashed.
Two teams of authors and directors in Zagreb and Braunschweig have taken a closer look at David Schwarz, the pioneer of aerostatics, within the frame of the cooperation project Achtung: Pioniere! between the Staatstheater Braunschweig and the z|k|m|. The Croatian author Ivana Sajko wrote a composition of scenic images based on Schwarz's unsuccessful attempt to create a dirigible airship well before the invention of the Zeppelin. The painting The Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Bruegel the Elder, is both the starting point and destination of Sajko’s text surface in which normality and catastrophe as well as everyday life and revolution overlap. Daniela Löffner, resident director in Braunschweig, uses the text as instructions for a painting and has staged a scenic collapse with German and Croatian actors.
www.staatstheater-braunschweig.de
Text Ivana Sajko Director Daniela Löffner With Moritz Dürr, Sven Hönig, Hanno Koffler, Klaus Lembke, Hans-Werner Leupelt, Doris Šarić-Kukuljica, Mattias Schamberger, Louisa von Spies, Martina Struppek Set and Costumes Claudia Kalinski Dramaturgy Katrin Breschke Coproduction Festival Theaterformen, z|k|m| Cooperation partners Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz, Goethe Institut Zagreb
Supported by Fonds Wanderlust of the German Federal Cultural Foundation
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