Mozart meets Rolling Stones, two actors who slip into different roles give it up to themselves and the audience: "Gretchen 89ff" is what it is called.
Freising
- Leonie Fuchs and Stephan Leitmeier celebrated the premiere at the Sommerwunder with the comedy by Lutz Hübner: snotty, sarcastic, self-deprecating, wonderfully exaggerated - it was all “Gretchen 89ff”.
Yes, the box scene with Gretchen in Goethe's “Faust” (to be found in the little yellow Reclam booklet on page 89 and the following) is famous.
But how is it staged, what can the director and actor make of it, how can it be interpreted, how can it be staged?
Modern?
Disreputable?
Painful?
Overdone?
"Everything is possible" is the title of the prologue to the comedy - and that is exactly what the audience will experience on Saturday evening in the district court garden with the production by Steffi Baier: two actors who give everything and who can do everything.
Completely over-the-top
There is Leitmeier as the completely frantic hectic, annoyed, puffing two cigarettes at the same time, screaming sentences like “I have to feel the madness”.
Meanwhile, Leonie Fuchs is docile, slightly insecure, and she is embarrassed to roll around on the floor.
And on it goes: Leitmeier as a pleasure-addicted Viennese with shame, who doesn't care about Gretchen, but who wants to have a coffee with the actress as soon as possible - the actress for whose portrayal Leonie Fuchs grotesquely throws her hair, grins ingeniously stupid and rightly applauded reaps.
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Excessive hectic: Stephan Leitmeier and Leonie Fuchs slipped into the most bizarre roles.
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Even more bizarre
Can it get any more bizarre?
Yes: Then, when the director comes along as a rocker who “doesn't give a shit” to Goethe's text, while Leonie Fuchs yells that very text into the auditorium extremely aggressively - the text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, which is said to have been “messed up to the bone” .
Then Leonie Fuchs shines as a "beginner", always doing nice speaking exercises, full of zest for action - and thus driving the extremely bored and increasingly annoyed director insane: What the actress is portraying resembles a "mad angler with his worm bait box".
Then the next unequal couple - Fuchs as an exalted diva with starry airs, Leitmeier as an intimidated director who would rather have Gretchen a little more simple and intimate.
Variation 6
The sixth variant is completely different: Leitmeier gives the worn-out prop master who adorns the box with a devoted and slightly dumb grin, while the actress is angry about the success of her colleagues.
The stupidly giggling intern, who once played the theater at school and falls on his knees in awe in front of the cool, puffing actress Gretchen, leads on to the last variant: Fuchs ingeniously gives the dramaturge with a scientific claim, contrives in verbal Constructs, while Leitmeier is congenial as a casual hoodie wearer to give the Gretchen and fails miserably.
But the main thing is that the coal is right.
Deliciously amused
“Gretchen 89ff” - a piece that demands a lot from both actors.
Very much.
And: Fuchs and Leitmeier give a lot.
Very much.
So much that Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher and Pastor Stephan Rauscher - sitting next to each other in the first row - have a great time.
Just like all the other visitors in the district court garden, who felt the madness in the most positive sense of the word.
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