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Orff makes it possible

2023-01-02T08:17:16.197Z


Orff makes it possible Created: 2023-01-02 09:02 By: Andrea Graepel The Christmas story, which Elisabeth Schmidt performs with the children's choir, is reinforced by the royal actors from the Kolping Family (from left: Werner Pöllmann, Josef Zusel, Konrad Rausch) and the actors from the Ammersee Farmhouse Theater (from right: Rainer Bartsch, Franz Czasny and Robert Brack) . © Photographer: Andr


Orff makes it possible

Created: 2023-01-02 09:02

By: Andrea Graepel

The Christmas story, which Elisabeth Schmidt performs with the children's choir, is reinforced by the royal actors from the Kolping Family (from left: Werner Pöllmann, Josef Zusel, Konrad Rausch) and the actors from the Ammersee Farmhouse Theater (from right: Rainer Bartsch, Franz Czasny and Robert Brack) .

© Photographer: Andrea Jaksch

The children's choir of the parish community Ammersee-Ost and the Ammersee farmer's theater are looking forward to their first cooperation: the performance of Carl Orff's Christmas story on January 6th in the Nikolauskirche in Herrsching.

Herrsching

- Since Elisabeth Schmidt took up her position as a church musician in the Ammersee-Ost parish community in October 2020, there has also been a children's choir.

A small ensemble, "but they are outstanding".

That's why the 56-year-old had already rehearsed excerpts from Orff's Christmas story with them for the nativity play a year ago.

Since then, the idea of ​​performing the story in its entirety has germinated.

On January 6, on Epiphany, the time has come.

The Christmas story can be heard and seen in the Nikolauskirche.

And because the church musician has brought reinforcements from the Ammersee Farmer's Theater for this, there will be another performance for the Herrschingen seniors on January 7th.

Instead of the senior citizens' afternoon, which is traditionally organized by the amateur stage on the fourth Sunday in Advent,

Carl Orff and Gunild Keetman wrote the Christmas story for the Bavarian Radio in 1948 – Orff wrote the text and Keetman wrote the music.

Unlike Orff's famous Christmas play, the Christmas story was conceived as a radio play.

"You can tell," says Elisabeth Schmidt.

In the radio play, the imagination has much more room, in a performance elephant and camel could hardly move into the church.

That's why she adapted the story for the performance in the Nikolauskirche.

Also the part of the shepherds, which children play in the original version.

Elisabeth Schmidt got support for this.

As a lady in Herrsching, she immediately knew who to turn to – the Ammersee Farmer's Theater.

Franz Czasny, Rainer Bartsch and Robert Brack didn't think twice and accepted.

And the Kolping Family provides the Holy Kings.

The support was also necessary because the children's choir has a maximum of seven children between the ages of 9 and 11.

Even more so, because Elisabeth Schmidt wants to emphasize the powerful Bavarian, when it says, for example: "A deadly star runs up in the sky up there" or "Down on the street 'the people pull here, a big bunch and ride on horses... one has a prehensile nose, a sky-long one.... there isn't a steed, it's an elephant." "The children no longer speak this Bavarian language.

The text is not really suitable for children either,” says Elisabeth Schmidt

Orff himself, who lived in Dießen until his death in 1982, was familiar with nativity scenes and nativity plays from an early age.

Without the Bavarian landscape and dialect, however, he could not have imagined the traditional game.

This is how the Christmas story came about as a 'boy's play', as he himself put it.

And with Bavarian coloring.

"Translating it into a high-level language would destroy the soundscape that is so necessary for this game," Carl Orff said.

This is also how Elisabeth Schmidt sees it, who, in addition to the actors of the country theater, also brought in musical reinforcement from the ranks of friends and family - as well as extras for the large flock of angels - in the radio play there is talk of a thousand.

Altogether there are about 40 participants on and behind the stage.

The game is not very long.

45 to 50 minutes, Elisabeth Schmidt estimates.

And yet: "It's exciting," says Franz Czasny, who knows much longer passages of text.

But now music comes into play.

At the first rehearsal, he admits, he thought: “Oh, ha.

We underestimated that.” The interplay of music, singing and text has to be spot on.

“There is no leeway, no improvisation.

It takes a lot of discipline," says Czasny.

He admits that he and his fellow actors are still holding the lyric sheet during rehearsals.

The game director acknowledges this in a friendly and stern manner, but is full of anticipation and convinced that the interaction will work out in the end: "It's just good."

The Christmas story in cooperation with the children's choir of the Ammersee-Ost parish community, the Ammersee farmer's theater and the "Wildem Orchester" under the direction of Elisabeth Schmidt will be performed on Friday, January 6, from 5 p.m. in the Nikolauskirche in Herrsching.

Admission is free, donations are welcome.

Only seniors in the community are invited for Saturday, January 7th.

The Ammersee Farmer's Theater has organized a bus to pick up the seniors from the districts of Widdersberg and Breitbrunn.

The performance in the Nikolauskirche begins at 2 p.m.

Afterwards there will be mulled wine in the inner courtyard of the church.

Source: merkur

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