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Matthias Lilienthal and the Münchner Kammerspiele: "Looking fear in the face"

2021-01-18T15:58:50.824Z


Matthias Lilienthal was artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele for five years. The documentary "Kammerspiele - Jammerspiele" approaches this time.


Matthias Lilienthal was artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele for five years.

The documentary "Kammerspiele - Jammerspiele" approaches this time.

  • Matthias Lilienthal was the artistic director of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2015 to 2020.

  • Lilienthal's first two seasons were controversial among parts of the audience, city politics and critics.

  • The documentary "Kammerspiele - Jammerspiele" is approaching this time on BR television.

There he stands in the passage to the Schauspielhaus, Maximilianstrasse at his back.

Matthias Lilienthal, head of the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2015 to 2020, as the audience knows him: orange T-shirt, glasses on forehead, arms crossed over his chest.

When it got cooler (which not only happened more often in his first two years at the house due to the weather), a black hooded sweater and a denim jacket rounded off the managerial atmosphere.

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Matthias Lilienthal headed the Münchner Kammerspiele from 2015 to 2020.

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In this scene of the documentary "Kammerspiele - Jammerspiele", Lilienthal is played by the director Anta Helena Recke, so she is female and black - and speaks about the work of Anta Helena Recke.

The film by Chiara Grabmayr and Juno Meinecke, which will be shown on Tuesday, January 19 at 10:50 p.m. on BR TV, undermines expectations and opens up a new perspective.

Just like Recke did when she first worked on the Kammerspiele.

In her “black copy” she only replaced the ensemble in Anna-Sophie Mahler's staging of Josef Bierbichler's novel “Mittelreich”, instead of being lighter it now had dark skin.

The theater maker draws on this highlight in the last part of this film and, in addition to Lilienthal, also plays a laudator and critics who comment on her work and whose words she appropriates.

Anta Helena Recke questions viewing habits

This alienation may be bizarre - it is not ineffective.

Recke questioned viewing habits.

Thus, the scenes tell a lot about Lilienthal's work in Munich, which was about questioning and offering people a stage that the cultural scene often forgets.

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Hello Munich: Samouil Stoyanov roars through the Olympic Stadium as Super Mario at the “Opening Ceremony”, the farewell performance of the Lilienthal artistic director last summer.

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The 45-minute film is not a purely journalistic format, but a subjective approach to the directorship of the 61-year-old Berliner.

The Kammerspiele are jointly responsible as co-producers;

Bayerischer Rundfunk only supported the work.

Director Grabmayr impressed with the ZDF series "Fett und Fett"

But Grabmayr, who already drew attention to herself as the director and author of the ZDF bird wild series “Fett und Fett”, and Meinecke worked out some central aspects of these five years.

They have divided their work into three acts, as a prologue there are interview snippets from 2013. As designated director, Lilienthal explains: “What I like about my life is that I always do the things I can't do.

And I've forgotten how to work with the ensemble and the city theater. ”A sentence that large parts of the audience signed, especially in the first two seasons.

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Behind the scenes: Julia Riedler (left) and Gro Swantje Kohlhof in conversation about the “robbers”.

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It is remarkable how the actors remember the outcry at the time.

Thomas Hauser emphasizes the internal effect ("a mutually supportive, steadfast team");

Jelena Kuljić looks outside: “The audience obviously reacted more to the press than to our theater.

This is a pity.

Because I assume that people who are interested in theater will continue to be curious. "

A look behind the scenes of Leonie Böhm's "Robbers"

Fortunately, the documentary not only revolves around the quarrels of the first two years, which then turned into "unrestrained love" (Lilienthal) from the third.

The second act looks behind the scenes of Leonie Böhm's furious Schiller adaptation “Räuberinnen” with an exclusively female team on and behind the stage.

Here comes the sentence that could be the motto of Matthias Lilienthal's time in Munich: "Look fear in the face." They did.

And often it was even fun.

Send note:

“Kammerspiele - Jammerspiele” will run on Tuesday, January 19, at 10:50 p.m., on BR television and will be available in the BR media library until February 18.

Read here Barbara Mundel's plans for her first season as the successor to Matthias Lilienthal at the Münchner Kammerspiele.

Source: merkur

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