The Senderwiese has placed director Thomas Goerge at the center of a theater project.
75 hectares of grassland are the starting point for bizarre stories.
Hallbergmoos
- Thomas Goerge, a renowned director known in many theaters, lives in Hallbergmoos: The reference to his homeland inspires him - as with the Siegfried saga - to his latest theater project: At the point where the 256 Meter high US transmission tower and broadcast the "Voice of America".
There, where Goerges half-Jewish great-aunt Marga once earned pocket money as a cowherd - and the composer and lecturer at the Hallbergmoos music school, who grew up in Moscow, listened to the radio station "Voice of America" on the lap of his grandfather Jossif Spinel.
From draining the swamps to building airports
Today it is a small, tarred place in the middle of the grassy landscape.
“At the center of the earth, which is still broadcasting today,” as Goerge describes it.
An extraordinary, challenging and bizarre production about the history of the meadow.
A mix of styles from a prehistoric saga, dream interpretation, historical and scientific discourse.
The meadow “travels” through time - from the “birth” of the meadow 4.6 billion years ago over the equator to the here and now: in between there are many events, from the draining of the swamps in the former poor colony to the refugee marches of the concentration camp prisoners and the construction of the airport.
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Dancers in the circus ring: interludes of the students of the step by step ballet school.
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The performance was "illustrated": with drawings and portrait photos, inserts of the students from the step by step ballet school who danced the creation of the flowers, artists from Circus Feraro who depicted the American era with knife throwers, fire-eaters and lasso swingers and acoustically accompanied by the Hallbergmooser Chamber orchestra.
Well-known actors and amateurs acted side by side: Felix von Bredow (“Magier”), well-known from TV, and Karl-Heinz Kirchmann (“Kaiser”), for example.
A wonderful duo with Robert Ludewig as “Boandlkramer” and Korbinian Goerge (“Narr”) find their roles, as does the former Syrian refugee from Birkeneck, Saad Rascho Heidi.
The visitors passed through the "Erchinger Altar"
The decentralized stage sets are top-class: Anja von Wins created the “Erchinger Altar”, which the visitors walked through when they came.
Daniel Angermayr, Allun Turner and Karl Gößmann-Schmitt built the north, east and south gates.
Outstanding is the composer, conductor and pianist Richard van Schoor, who has made a name for himself with his own operas and performs internationally as a soloist.
Eva Oestereich
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