The miracle of Neukölln
| Musical dates | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The miracle of Neukölln |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Wolfgang Böhmer |
| Lyrics: | Peter Lund |
| Premiere: | 4th December 1998 |
| Place of premiere: | Berlin, Neukölln Opera |
| Place and time of the action: | Berlin , today |
The Miracle of Neukölln is a musical by Peter Lund (text) and Wolfgang Böhmer (music) and was premiered on December 4, 1998 at the Neukölln Opera .
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Janine Majowski can consider herself lucky. Because she has a job as a cashier at Penny . From the meager salary, she still has to feed her unemployed boyfriend and also her little brother, who threatens her to punish her if she doesn't pull the money. In addition, her mother has cancer and her father is a total care case.
Somehow it all works until Janine becomes pregnant and also decides to keep the child. So she becomes an unemployed, single mother of a disabled child who has a lot of trouble with her family. It's going to be a lot more unbearable than it sounds: Janine's life is a bad movie. At least that's the feeling Janine has. And Janine almost wouldn't have gotten the curve if it hadn't been for Johannes, a modern Prince Charming and an experienced media person who feels the enormous potential that lies dormant in this touching life story, because a lot of money can be made from bad times and sad fates. He promises to make Janine a rich woman overnight with a fundraiser. This is how Janine's incredible journey to the top begins ...
reception
The Berlin snout rules on stage. Schlager, rock and gospel songs for clarinet, bass and saxophone provide the right swing and are ideal for the turbulent spectacle . The musical, which was subtitled by Lund as a social comedy with music , tells a modern fairy tale and, as "a real Berlin musical" , quickly became a "cult piece" that takes Neukölln's social problems seriously and whose trademark is aimed directly at the pain point Is related to the present. As a limitless mix of styles, Das Wunder von Neukölln set the standard that has been valid since then for German music theater 'from below' and invented the new genre of social comedy .
Ensemble of the first season
- Director: Bernd Mottl
- Musical direction: Hans-Peter Kirchberg
- Stage design: Dirk Immich
- Costumes: Susanne Suhr
- Actors: Christine Rothacker, Silvia Bitschkowski, Gerd Lukas Storzer , Ilka Sehnert, Claudia Stangl, Martin Stenkamp, Guido Schmitt, Katrin Aebischer
Further performances
- Guest performance in the Grips-Theater from July 23, 1999
- Guest performance at the Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder) on December 3rd and 4th, 1999
- Resumption at the Neukölln Opera on June 7, 2000
- Guest performance at Kampnagel in Hamburg from December 2nd, 2000
- Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland), 2000/2001 season
Press reviews
- And this miracle of Neukölln by host Peter Lund is actually a miracle, a wonderful comic opera with accurate dialogues, wit, esprit and charm, an operetta, a gorgeous musical, oh what, just everything together. (Zitty)
- The most remarkable musical premiere of the 1998/99 season. (musicals)
List of songs (selection)
- Go away
- Family, what for?
- Something very special
- Neukölln by night
- Be there, answer it!
- You have a wife
- Jesus, Heinrich Böll and you
- One thing a day
- I am totally socially disturbed
- It depends on
- Come to Falkensee with me
- No one who still loves me
- I see what you don't see
- The love of habit
- A miracle happened to me
Individual evidence
- ^ Berliner Kurier dated June 7, 2000
- ↑ Press information from the Neukölln Opera on the musical Das Wunder von Neukölln ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Frieling: Grusical: Mrs. Zucker wants world domination ( Memento from November 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). OpernBlog from October 18, 2011.
Web links
- Press information from the Neukölln Opera about the musical Das Wunder von Neukölln . ( Memento from November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )