Berlin Jedermann Festival
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The Berliner Jedermann Festival existed from 1987 to 2014 and every autumn showed Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann . Brigitte Grothum was the founder of the festival, director and performer of Faith from the beginning . While the Jedermann of the Salzburg Festival is played in the open air in front of the Salzburg Cathedral , the Berlin performances have taken place in the interior of the Berlin Cathedral since 1993 . From 1988–1992 in the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church , in 1988 in the Südsternkirche in Kreuzberg.
history
From 1987 the annual Jedermann Festival was held in Berlin . Because Hofmannsthal's piece is largely associated with the Salzburg Cathedral Square, where it has been performed almost every summer since 1920, the fact that the world premiere of Jedermann took place in Berlin in 1911, in the Schumann Circus, staged by Max Reinhardt, took a back seat .
Brigitte Grothum directed the productions . The venue was initially the Kreuzberg Church on Südstern , later the Marienkirche , but also the Gethsemane Church and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church . For the most part, Grothum assembled an ensemble of well-known actors and actresses from the film and television world as well as the boulevard theater. The casts were often prominent and unusual, and sometimes brave. Grothum's original motivation for the production was faithfulness to the work, the worry that someone else could turn the mystery play into an evening of the director's theater , “in which the work would only be a means to an end”. The first Jedermann actors were the film and television actors Erik Schumann (1987) and Bodo Wolf (1988–1990), the first fanatic was Monika Tabsch , who had previously appeared in an episode of the television series Die Nervensäge with Dieter Hallervorden .
In 1991 the pop singer and film actress Heidi Brühl , then 49 years old, was supposed to take on the role of lover , also took part in the first rehearsals, but died after an operation before the premiere. Iris Berben took over her role at short notice . The Jedermann from 1991 to 1993 was the actor Ezard Haußmann , who was engaged at the Berlin Volksbühne for 23 years . His fanatics were, according to Berben, Ingrid Steeger (1991) and the pop singer Dunja Rajter (1993). In 1993 there was a new staging at a new venue, Grothum established the mystery play in the Berlin Cathedral and now accompanied its new staging with music by Johann Bach . The cathedral remained the venue for the play until the end of the festival. The director took on the role of faith in all performances of the festival from the beginning to the end. She only played the Buhlschaft in one guest appearance in 1990. A number of actors remained loyal to the project for many years:
- The Fassbinder and television actress Brigitte Mira played the mother for fifteen summers from 1990 until her death.
- Gerd Duwner played Mammon for seven seasons , then Klaus Dahlen for five seasons and Ilja Richter again for seven seasons .
- Peter Sattmann played Death from 1998 to 2003 and played the devil for seven seasons from 2004, most recently in 2014.
- Debora Weigert , the festival director's daughter, played the role of Guten Werke for seven seasons .
Hermann Treusch made his debut in 1994, Joachim Hansen in 1998 and Reiner Schöne in the role of Everyman in 1999, and the 1990s were well-known personalities from film and television, including Carry Sass , Uta Schorn , Sonja Kirchberger and Isabel Varell . In 2002 the travesty star Georg Preuße alias Mary took over the title role, in 2006 the former pop and later opera singer René Kollo . The lovers of these years were Dennenesch Zoudé , subsequently Jenny Elvers-Elbertzhagen and in 2006 Barbara Becker .
In 2008, the actor Winfried Glatzeder gave Jedermann, and Mariella Ahrens the woo. In 2009, Rüdiger Joswig took on the title role, the former figure skater Katarina Witt took on the woe and the cabaret artist Herbert Feuerstein took on the role of the devil. In 2010 and 2011 Glatzeder again took over the Jedermann, in 2012 and 2013 for the first time Francis Fulton-Smith and in 2014 Georg Preuße again . The last three fanatics were the television presenter Eva Habermann , the actress Barbara Wussow and the pop singer Jeanette Biedermann .
The founder, director and actress justified the end of the institution on the one hand with her age, on the other hand with the constant risk of a free production that was dependent on sponsors and received no subsidies: “If we cannot get it financed by anything other than begging, then we have to stop."
As the most touching experience of the 28 years of Jedermann, Grothum described a guest performance in July 1989 in the east of the city, in the Marienkirche on Alexanderplatz - a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall . "The audience stood below and cried and we stood upstairs and cried." It was raining roses and there were chants: "Come back, come back!"
A total of around 500,000 spectators saw the Berlin Jedermann performance.
Occupations
- In 1989, Death was also played by Manfred Tümmler , in 1994 and 1995 by Ekkehard Schall , and in 1996 by Arno Wyzniewski .
- Erich Schellow suffered a severe stroke in 1993 and died in 1995. The Lord's voice in the Berliner Jedermann performances came from an older sound recording.
- In the years 2000 to 2003 as well as 2006 and 2008 Peter Sattmann embodied both death and the devil.
- Erik Schumann only played the first Jedermann in two performances, after which he had to resign due to illness and was replaced by Bodo Wolf.
Guest performances
The Berliner Jedermann production was also shown in an annual guest performance between 2004 and 2006. In 2004, the Berliner Jedermann made a guest appearance in the courtyard of Herrenchiemsee Palace . The game was played in daylight.
In 2005 the ensemble made a guest appearance in front of the Ital-Reding-Haus in the Swiss municipality of Schwyz ; the outdoor grandstand was built for 3,000 visitors. Charles Linsmayer gave his review the title drama like worship and praised the performance "as a thoroughly traditional drama at its best", the well-coordinated ensemble and all the performance. As guests from Switzerland, Walo Lüönd took on the role of the poor neighbor and Stefanie Glaser that of everyone's mother .
In 2006 the production made a guest appearance in Speyer with René Kollo as Jedermann and Barbara Becker as Buhlschaft .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jedermann Festival in Berlin
- ↑ Jedermann Festival in Berlin
- ↑ Stefan Kirschner: These Berlin "Jedermann" festival are the last , Berliner Morgenpost , accessed on November 16, 2016.
- ↑ Fansite Heidi Brühl , Stage Roles, accessed on November 16, 2016.
- ↑ TrendJam Magazine: Berliner Jedermann Festspiele 2012 with Francis Fulton-Smith, Barbara Wussow, Ursula Karusseit and Herbert Köfer , October 8, 2012
- ↑ Berliner Jedermann Festival: [1] /
- ↑ a b Franziska Felber: After 28 Years: A Farewell for Everyone , Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), September 24, 2016, accessed on November 16, 2016.
- ^ Townspeople - everyone kisses the Buhlschaft Tagesspiegel, accessed December 7, 2016
- ^ Brigitte Grothum: Mein "Jedermann" , pp. 38/39, Siebenhaar Verlag, Berlin, 2006, ISBN 978-3-936962-35-2