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Martin's legend brought to life

2021-11-11T05:20:16.453Z


A year ago, the St. Elisabeth theater group performed a play by Christiane Amberger for the first time. In the meantime you have reached the fourth production: on Sunday, November 14th, the world premiere of your Martinsspiel will take place - in good weather in front of St. Martin in Martinsried.


A year ago, the St. Elisabeth theater group performed a play by Christiane Amberger for the first time.

In the meantime you have reached the fourth production: on Sunday, November 14th, the world premiere of your Martinsspiel will take place - in good weather in front of St. Martin in Martinsried.

Planegg

- “I've been writing for a long time,” says Amberger, who is actually a lawyer and lives with her family in Graefelfing. She published short stories in the magazine "Fesch samma" and wrote short stories for her then still little daughter Serafina.

She also came into contact with Ludwig Götz through Serafina.

Until his retirement at the end of 2019, he was a church musician in the Planegg parish church of St. Elisabeth for 40 years.

And Serafina attended his early musical education, sang in the children's, youth and finally gospel choirs and gave, among other things, the angel in the nativity play.

One day Amberger suggested to Götz that we put on a new nativity play.

He in turn asked them to write one.

“I did that, but he didn't like it,” said Amberger.

Your piece was forgotten.

Bumped into piece while cleaning up

Last year, however, Götz was now retired, and Pastor Johannes von Bonhorst asked him to put on another nativity play. Götz, who had been doing this for 20 years, initially refused. At home, however, when he was cleaning up, Amberger's Nativity Scene fell into his hands. He read it, was impressed, and asked her to revise it. Before it was performed, the theater group showed “The Prodigal Son” last November and then an Easter play at Easter, which was also made by Amberger. “I'm very interested in theology in general and in comparative religious studies,” she says. “I think the stories in the Bible are very valuable. When young people play them, they come to life. "

According to Amberger, she needed two days for the Martinsspiel.

"It goes pretty quickly with me." She put the story of St. Martin in lyrical form, with four-line stanzas in cross rhyme.

"Because it is rhythmic, it is relatively easy for the children to learn the text by heart." The different characters are included in every Martin game, "just not presented as emotionally as I did".

Six girls

Six girls have been rehearsing on Friday afternoons with Ludwig Götz in St. Elisabeth's Church since the beginning of October. Viktoria is the youngest and is still in elementary school, the rest of them are in fifth grade. Götz, who himself took acting lessons for ten years, teaches the girls how to speak the text so that it is credible. “The audience must be shocked.” He continues: “The fascinating thing for me is that the children like to play theater. You can't even imagine what will happen in a month and a half. Children who are very shy can suddenly scream and be angry. For me as the director of the theater, it is a great feeling when the children dare to do something. "

The speaker has most of the text, because she has to introduce and summarize in between. The Martin game must not last longer than a sermon, as it is performed as part of the church service for the patronage of St. Martin. The service begins at 10 a.m., weather permitting, on the square in front of the church.

There is not much time left to pause.

On Christmas Eve, the theater group wants to perform Amberger's nativity play again.

The 57-year-old has already written a short piece about the fall of man.

Revised into a monologue, Ludwig Götz performed it in his “Singing, praying, listening” series.

Perhaps there will be an opportunity to perform it in a church service.

In any case, the visitors to the Götz evening were enthusiastic and called him afterwards to ask for the text.

Götz about Amberger: "She can do it."

Source: merkur

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