From September onwards, Barbara Mundel is the new director of the Munich Kammerspiele. Now she has presented her plans and her team in a first "update".
Pause is not. Corona or not. "We don't leave reality alone," promises the new management team at the Munich Kammerspiele. Because: "She won't leave us alone either." On Tuesday, Barbara Mundel, who has been artistic director of the city's stage since September 1st, presented her plans for the first season - the desired starting date is October 8th.
Corona makes planning difficult
But as it is with culture in times of epidemic: There is currently little concrete planning. Therefore this morning is a first "update", which will be followed by others. There are no definitive premier days so far. One thing is clear - "we absolutely want to play," says the future boss, who also uses this appearance in the Schauspielhaus to let many people from the new management team have their say.
The first game schedule is devoted to the present - "How can it be otherwise?" The materials that are to become theater here are premieres, immediately contemporary (such as Wolfram Lotz's "The Politicians") or from the 20th century. Classic care? "Will come soon." First, "Encounters with the present" should be explored.
Thomas Bernhard and Ernst Toller are on the program
A maximum of “modern classics” will be staged: Jan Bosse will adapt the great novel “Effingers” (1951) by Gabriele Tergit (1894-1982), which has recently been brought back into the public consciousness. Jan-Christoph Gockel and puppeteer Michael Pietsch set up “A Youth in Germany” (1933) based on the autobiography by Ernst Toller (1893-1939) for people and puppets. And Falk Richter deals with "Heldenplatz" (1988) by Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989). Here you will see Edgar Selge, who returns to the house as a "regular guest".
More than 30 actors and actresses belong to the new ensemble - Mundel has taken over twelve from their predecessor Matthias Lilienthal. The new director plans to continue some of the developments he initiated. These include, for example, the collaboration with the independent scene, the internationality on and behind the stage ("We are looking for strange, beautiful languages.") As well as the focus on dance and music: With the DJ and "vinyl archaeologist" Sebastian Reier, an expert could the scene to be tied to the house, which, together with the Weilheimer The Notwist brothers Markus and Micha Acher, wants to continue the hugely successful festival "Alien Disko".
The Koy Koy kiosk is to be built in the cash desk.
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Like Lilienthal, Mundel, born in 1959, wants to go to the city with the theater. Perhaps the most important instrument for this is the Koy Koy Kiosk, which Lola Fonsèque, Tunay Önder and Keith Zenga King will open on Maximilianstrasse - where the box office is today. With the “people in the city”, a “post-migrant multipurpose shop for cultivating radical alliances” is to be created here in the next five years, a room open daily with food, drinks, talks, radio, films. The goal according to the announcement: "Everyone who is looking for truth, beauty, happiness and unhappiness can be found in the Koy Koy - with or without Maserati under the ass."
Munich can also do theater
Here, the people of Munich are invited to participate as well as in Jeremy Deller's urban space performance "What is the City but the People?" Fill life! ”) As well as in the project“ Habitat Munich ”, with which choreographer Doris Uhlich wants to blow up“ common ideas of body, dance and nudity ”.
But not only today, the new theater people are also interested in the city's history. Director Christine Umpfenbach, who once developed the depressing NSU evening “Judgments” for the Residenztheater, starts a research project on the Oktoberfest assassination.
"Touch" is the first premiere in the Kammerspiele
The question remains when the virus will again allow stage art - and in what form? The first production under new directorship, which is to celebrate its premiere in the Schauspielhaus, is the world premiere of “Touch”, which Falk Richter is working on with choreographer Anouk van Dijk. Before Corona there was a building sample - which has long been obsolete. Richter takes it sporty: “We are pioneers. We look: How does that work now? "