Dreamlike stage worlds by Erich Wonder and Heiner Müller
Created: 2022-01-14Updated: 2022-01-14, 3:50 p.m
Visitors walk through the exhibition "Erich Wonder - T/room images for Heiner Müller". © Monika Skolimowska/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
The creative friction between two exceptional artists gave the theater world a dream couple on stage for two decades.
The equally celebrated and controversial dramatist Heiner Müller (1929-1995) and the stage designer Erich Wonder, born in 1944, created productions with their collaboration that have had repercussions to this day.
With the exhibition "Erich Wonder - T/Room Images for Heiner Müller" the Berlin Academy of Arts is showing from Sunday to April 13.
Berlin - March an insight into the work of the German-Austrian cooperation.
Müller and Wonder met in Frankfurt/Main in the 1970s.
From then on, a friendship and collaboration developed between the author and the set designer, which lasted until Müller's death in 1995.
The work was also influenced by the different aesthetic experiences of the East German Müller, who worked in the FRG and the GDR, and the Austrian Wonder.
The team around curator Stephan Suschke, who worked for Müller for a number of years, concentrated on three productions, each of which set new standards.
The two artists at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin realized Müller's plays “Der Lohndrucker” (1988) and his Shakespeare adaptation “Hamlet/Maschine” (1990) shortly before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Müller and Wonder brought Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" to the stage in 1993 with conductor Daniel Barenboim for the Bayreuth Festival.
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The exhibition uses Wonder's pictures and drawings as well as costumes and props from the productions to show how the stage designer's ideas and the author's productions came together.
There are no realistic spaces to be found here, the frequently geometric figures are more likely to come together to form dreamlike worlds in which Müller lets his figures act.
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