As of: February 18, 2024, 7:00 a.m
By: Volker Ufertinger
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Two who love the stage (standing from left) Ex-actor Sebastian Hofmüller and Sabine Gruban are leading the current rehearsals for the play “Die Eisbachwelle”.
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In the theater youth club, young people are introduced to the theater.
Sebastian Hofmüller and Sabine Gruban gave an insight into the current rehearsals.
Gauting
– The 12-person event of the cultural platform in the Gauting wide-screen cinema is usually limited to half an hour.
This time it went longer.
Over red and white wine, actor Sebastian Hofmüller spoke passionately about the “Spiellust” project, in which he tries to introduce young people between the ages of ten and 20 to the stage.
The listeners asked intensively how he managed this, and Hofmüller, who has also been responsible for the clubs in the Gauting town hall for some time, was happy to answer.
At his side was Sabine Gruban, who until recently taught at the Maria Ward girls' secondary school in Berg am Laim and is now bringing all her experience from the school theater she supervised there to the theater youth club.
The Klinge Prize winner explained in advance how he came to this engagement in the first place.
During previous stints on stages in Bavaria, such as Landshut and Munich, he conveyed the fascination of the stage to young people.
Then Hans-Georg Krause invited him to do the same at the Gautinger Bosco.
“I gladly accepted the offer.
“Why should I go to Munich when it’s also possible in my home community?” he said.
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Hofmüller, together with Gruban and stage technician Benjamin Hüttner, are currently studying a play with young people for the fourth time.
Rehearsals began in October.
Rehearsals take place once a week on the Bosco's large stage, for three hours, in the evenings from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
This is of course tiring.
“Monday is not a nice day for the young people, as the whole stressful week still lies ahead of them,” says Hofmüller.
Gruban confirmed: “They have had the whole school day and are tired.” Nevertheless, the whole thing takes on a momentum of its own, at some point the desire to play is greater than the tiredness.
“I recently received an email from parents saying that for the first time ever, their child likes to go to school on Monday because there is theater in the evening.
“I was really happy about that,” said the actor.
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In his experience, the young people are reserved and polite.
This may be a pleasant feature in everyday life, but on stage it can seem counterproductive.
“Don’t be too nice to each other,” Hofmüller often tells the young people.
This is the prerequisite for a dynamic game.
“The body tension increases, the voice becomes louder,” says Gruban.
“It's always great to see when they dare to do that.” The basic principle is that the young people don't just play one role, but take on many identities.
“If things are going perfectly, everyone plays every role, we switch.” The change of roles is accompanied by a costume change.
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In the beginning, the young actors like it best when they have props in their hands that they can hold on to.
Hofmüller isn't necessarily a fan of that. "I think it's great when young people have nothing but their language and discover it on stage," he says.
The sentences they then say often have an unexpected impact.
“They are all much more adult and political than we think.
If the parents sit in the audience at the premiere and say: I've never heard my child talk like that, then we've made a point." The only prop Gautinger swears by: a fog machine.
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The piece that Hofmüller and Co. are currently rehearsing is “Die Eisbachwelle” by Florian Wacker.
It's about several friends who meet regularly at the famous Eisbachwelle at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
When one of the girls from the clique disappears, the others go looking for her and in this search they learn a lot about the city in which they live - and about themselves. The premiere is on May 11th on the big stage of the Bosco .
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