The Richard Strauss Festival Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a thing of the past.
While the loyal visitors are still recovering from the shock caused by this news, Tim Theo Tinn relies on a new beginning.
The theater man literally wants to bring Strauss to the people.
His suggestion to the community: Strauss von Jedermann.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - The corona virus and financial considerations have caused the market town, as sponsors of the Richard Strauss Festival, to cut back on it in 2021.
After 30 years with a top-class music week, there will only be one (perhaps extended) Strauss weekend next summer.
Especially since falling visitor numbers and the absence of local people do not motivate local politicians to continue to spend so much money on the festival.
For Tim Theo Tinn, however, the lack of interest is solely due to the concept.
"It was a mistake to celebrate a form of culture to which normal mortals have no access," says the theater man and publicist who lives in Unterhaching.
"You don't have to start with the summit, you have to start at the base below."
His goal would be to first try to get a local response and to build on that to act supraregional, national and international.
As soon as the news of the departure of the previous artistic director Alexander Liebreich had become public, Tinn submitted his ideas for a high-profile Strauss Festival in Garmisch-Partenkirchen's town hall.
Include schools and clubs as well
Anyone who likes will present something from, to or about Strauss at selected places in the center of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
You can sing, recite, make music, create a small scene.
Actors read excerpts from the opera texts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
A brass band plays, a musician performs, a ballet, a choir.
Without a fee.
Tinn has other ideas up his sleeve that don't cost a lot: to open, a comprehensive city festival under a Strauss motto.
"Residents could operate stalls and hospitality."
Tinn would involve them all, including schools and clubs.
He asks himself: Why not a football tournament for a Richard Strauss Cup?
Visitors could experience opera every day in the open air on a large video wall, for example historical productions from Salzburg.
Or they can relax to Strauss' music in a tent in a meditative setting.
Optical accompaniment, light effects, there are no limits to the imagination.
Festival with President - maybe Edmund Stoiber
Established actors could approach his works satirically, in various places documentaries about the composer and honorary citizen would be conceivable.
And singers compete with arias.
Also that for free.
Tinn would organize shows in Bavarian theaters with their Strauss productions, host historical record evenings with red wine and cheese and let students read Strauss anecdotes outside and inside.
“Of course, these points shouldn't make up the festival, but rather provide the framework,” he says.
Convinced that "many small beautiful things arouse curiosity and generate emotions".
A president would make sense for the external impact of the festival, "perhaps Edmund Stoiber would enjoy such a function".
At the beginning of August, Tim Theo Tinn wrote to the mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Elisabeth Koch (CSU), that he was interested in running the festival.
He introduced himself as a theater man;
15 years assistant, dramaturge, game director and director at houses such as the Stadttheater Essen, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, the Bavarian State Opera Munich.
In total, he has participated in 80 musical theater and drama productions, including as a singer and actor, and led around 1,500 performances as a director.
Collaboration with personalities such as Otto Schenk, August Everding, Giorgio Strehler and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
In addition to his theater experience, the 60-year-old recommended himself through a commercial / legal training and various activities in the economy.
Big disappointment for Tim Theo Tinn
He received an answer from Dr.
Dominik Sedivy, the head of the Richard Strauss Institute.
The course has not yet been set.
The newly founded GaPa Kultur gGmbH has been responsible for the festival since August 1st.
On August 19, Tinn learned from the press about the all-important municipal council meeting the next day.
He immediately offered the director of the institute to pass his thoughts on to the participants in the meeting "in order to create a broader basis for discussion".
A few hours later, Sedivy told him, according to his own statement, "a discussion of the unsolicited applications received (in large numbers) for artistic direction of the festival is not on the agenda for today's meeting".
The concept of a music summer developed by Kultur gGmbH will be voted on.
For Tinn, this procedure is a bitter disappointment: "I was rejected and my ideas ignored."
BY EVA STÖCKERL