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“Weilheimer Stückl” come onto the open-air stage

2021-07-21T08:05:58.943Z


They are well known, the "Weilheimer Stückl". But they haven't been on stage for over 50 years. Now it's finally that time again: Weilheim's festival organizers are staging it at the “Teatro Coronato” - and thus commemorating the 100th birthday of author Christian Buck.


They are well known, the "Weilheimer Stückl".

But they haven't been on stage for over 50 years.

Now it's finally that time again: Weilheim's festival organizers are staging it at the “Teatro Coronato” - and thus commemorating the 100th birthday of author Christian Buck.

Weilheim

- You can find them in quite a few places: the witty stories about illustrious ancestors who thought themselves to be particularly clever and yet acted particularly stupidly. They (and with them the fictional, long proverbial town of Schilda) have become particularly well-known as “Schildbürger pranks”. And Hirschau in the Upper Palatinate is celebrating a local variant, the “Hirschauer Stückl”, with its own festival for a long time - which, by the way, was brought to the stage by Weilheim's theater makers Yvonne Brosch and Andreas Arneth.

And Weilheim, too, has achieved a certain fame with such stories.

The former primary school principal and local poet Christian Buck wrote down a dozen of them in the 1960s and published them in the Friedl Brehm publishing house.

Before they even landed on a local stage, the Camerloher Gymnasium in Freising was playing a school opera "Weilheimer Stückl" with texts based on Josef Hofmiller and music by Theo Brand - excerpts from the Bavarian radio broadcast after a week of school play.

Legendary performance in 1969

In Weilheim itself, the “Stückl fountain” by the sculptor Kurt Speckbacher in front of the Rid department store has been a reminder of some of the Schwänke since 1986. And whenever the city council makes a controversial decision, there is talk of a "new Weilheimer Stückl". But the historical pieces hardly made it onto a stage here. The performance as a singspiel by the Liederkranz Orchestra Association (today's Weilheimer Chorkreis) in November 1969 is legendary - for which Christian Buck's lyrics were combined with Brand's music. But that's practically it until today. Only the well-known piece with the ox on the city wall - which was supposed to eat the grass there, but did not survive being pulled up with a noose around the neck - was played again by the Heimat- und Trachtenverein in 2010, for Weilheim's 1000th anniversary celebration.

Several Weilheimer Stückl have long had such classic status that one wonders why they are not put on stage much more often.

"Buck's pieces have only ever been played once," says Weilheim's former second mayor Ingo Remesch, wondering.

That was also the case with the play “The City Won”, which Buck wrote in 1988 for the 750th anniversary of the Weilheim city survey.

For “Die Weilheimer Stückl”, however, Remesch gave the decisive impetus for it to finally be performed again - at the “Teatro Coronato” on the open-air stage next to the Great Highland Hall.

Five performances are planned;

The premiere is this Friday, July 23rd.

A few allusions to today's Weilheimer

Ingo Remesch is on stage himself.

He is one of seven amateur actors from Weilheim with whom Yvonne Brosch stages Buck's "Stückl", alongside Anita Kurzrock, Barbara Röllnreiter, Joachim Heberlein, Klaus Kriegisch, Sebastian Schmederer and Hans Stibich.

Andreas Arneth takes care of the equipment.

And not only that: The set designer and director of the Weilheimer Stadttheater has composed Bucks individual scenes into a one-hour complete piece - and carefully and cleverly incorporated some updates including allusions to today's Weilheimers.

Also read:

That was the start of the Weilheim summer theater

Nothing of Christian Buck's original is lost. On the contrary. With the performances, the “Teatro” team also explicitly wants to commemorate the 100th birthday of the local poet and philosopher. At the same time, this year marks the 25th anniversary of his death. And the first day of July 23rd was the wedding anniversary of the Buck couple, city archivist Joachim Heberlein knows - who incidentally is the mayor of the Stückl performances.

So you can look forward to the historic and today's Weilheimers on stage: How they frantically struggle to fill sacks of daylight in order to bring it to the town hall, where the windows were forgotten when it was built.

Or how they try to move the parish church because the alley between it and the old town hall is so narrow that two drunks can hardly get past each other at night ... And to pull the ox onto the wall, that much is revealed, also packs a lot VIPs with.

Magnus Reitinger

Performances

from “Die Weilheimer Stückl” are on July 23, 24 and 25 and on August 7 and 8, at 8.30 p.m., on the open-air stage at the Great Highland Hall (in the city theater when it rains). Tickets are available by e-mail to info@stadttheater-weilheim.de or by calling 0152/565 70 359. More information, including the other program: www.teatro-coronato.de.

Source: merkur

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