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By: Michaele Heske
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Legendary: local writer and royal supporter Georg Lohmeier from Dorfen, here shortly before his 75th birthday.
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Eleonore Lohmeier, the widow of writer Georg Lohmeier, insists on copyright.
Now an amended version of “The City Survey” may not be performed in Dorfen.
Wolfgang Lanzinger is now writing a completely new piece.
Dorfen
– The curtain has fallen: There will be no revival of the play “The City Elevation” by Georg Lohmeier (†2015) to mark the 70th anniversary of the city of Dorfen.
Lohmeier's widow Eleonore is blocking a new production.
She has copyright on her side.
“I do not agree to a textual revision of the manuscript,” wrote Eleonore Lohmeier to our newspaper a few days ago (we reported).
It remains that way now, there will be a completely new text, without Lohmeier's coloring.
In any case, it is not a happy ending for the project of the Dorfen traditional costume group d'Stoarösler, which planned an updated new production of the material in the autumn on the occasion of the upgrading of the Dorfen market to a city 70 years ago - loosely based on Georg Lohmeier, author of the legendary royal -Bavarian district court.
No matter whether Goethe and Schiller, Dürrenmatt or Walser: The well-known classics are still played in theaters everywhere, often no longer in the original, but in adapted versions.
“Directors for stage and film all over the country are adapting the originals.
“That’s common practice and it makes old material attractive again,” says Wolfgang Lanzinger, regretting the widow’s decision.
The chairman of the historical circle had revised Lohmeier's version of the “city survey” at the request of traditional costumer Andreas Schweiger.
Disappointed: Andreas Schweiger from the “Stoaröslern”.
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Lohmeier, who died at the age of 88, came from Loh near Wasentegernbach.
It is said that he wrote down what he heard and experienced as a boy in his father's pub - and so he was inspired not only by the beer war, but also by the controversial city uprising.
On October 29, 1954, there was a memorable meeting in the town hall in Dorfen, which was preceded by major disputes.
After several hours of sometimes heated discussion, the council voted by a narrow 8:7 vote to elevate the city to city status.
Lohmeier turned this into a farce for the comedy bar.
“The City Survey,” which takes place in the fictional Geisbach, is, however, a unique Dorfen story with well-known protagonists.
Almost 60 years after it was first broadcast, the Schwank would have been on stage again - a revival of the good old days in Dorfen, but at the same time also a homage to the author from Loh.
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“We wanted to honor his work because the younger generation in particular no longer knows the writer from Loh,” explains Schweiger.
After all, Lohmeier's greatest successes, such as the ZDF early evening series Royal Bavarian District Court, filmed between 1969 and 1972, were a while ago.
The films are actually only known to older television viewers.
“I never let anyone interfere with my works.
Not a comma, not a period, not nothing,” Lohmeier said on the occasion of his 85th birthday.
Always aiming for perfection, his scripts rarely left room for direction.
“No drama either,” Schweiger now says.
“Then we’ll surprise the audience with a new piece.”
It would have been a comeback.
Even if the manuscript is “in excellent condition in her possession,” as Eleonore Lohmeier asserts in her letter to the editors, it will now be gathering dust for years to come, at least metaphorically speaking.
Who would remember Faust if Mephistopheles didn't whirl across theater stages in a new form year after year?
Or the “Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, the textual basis of Puccini’s “La Traviata”?
The authors might not have liked the fact that last year Violetta was sung by a countertenor and Ernst Bartmann brought the first “queer Traviata” to the Jakobmayer Hall in Dorfen with his “Opera Incognita”, but the production was a huge success.
Did Lanzinger distort Lohmeier's original with a gay mayor?
"God forbid.
The play takes place in 1954,” he counters with a wink.
After the veto, the German teacher and deputy headmaster of the Dorfen high school sits on his own version - and deletes all passages that are only remotely similar to the original.
And: “So that we don’t get into trouble with copyright, the title will also be changed.”