The Watzmann calls

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The Watzmann calls
Studio album by Ambros, diving, Prokopetz

Publication
(s)

1974

Label (s)

Format (s)

CD, LP, download

Genre (s)

Pop, rock

Title (number)

11

occupation

production

Manfred diving

Studio (s)

Müller Sound Studio

chronology
- The Watzmann calls Conductorless
(1978), Augustin 1979

Der Watzmann ruft is a concept album created in 1974(the authors call it "Rustical", derived from musical and rustic ) by Wolfgang Ambros , Manfred diving and Joesi Prokopetz , which was later turned into a musical.

This alpine drama is the first joint work of the youth friends. It describes the eternal being called by the evil mountain Watzmann , of the men who want to "up" out of imposing addiction and often have to give up their lives, as well as of the Gailtaler woman who abuses her power over the men and thus plunges them into ruin.

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history

The piece was written in 1972 by Manfred diving as a mountain farmer drama parody and set to music by Wolfgang Ambros to lyrics by Joesi Prokopetz. It was the first live radio play on ORF. First stage performance at the Wiener Festwochen in 1972. In 1974 the record version was made. With over 250,000 copies sold to date, this German-language concept album is one of the most successful recordings on the Austrian music scene.

A first major tour of Germany took place in 1982. In 1991 the biggest tour to date in Austria and Germany followed with some new songs to texts by Manfred diving. Christoph Fälbl played the boy. During this tour, the performance was recorded in the Munich Circus Krone . The almost two hour long film is entitled Watzmann live .

The original stage version, with singing parts distributed among the actors, was only performed in the Munich Lustspielhaus in 2000 - this time with Severin Groebner as a boy - and developed into the Munich cult piece. In 2007 the most successful version so far followed, with Nepo Fitz as the boy and Hannes Ringlstetter as the old servant with great press coverage. Diving itself still plays the farmer, the farmhand, (of course) the Gailtalerin and directs as always. Titus Vollmer was the musical director .

In 2004 the play was performed in a different form on the Seebühne am Chiemsee as well as in a tour of Germany and Austria. There were also other performances in 2005, one of which was recorded for television with Klaus Eberhartinger as Gailtaler.

In 2008 the play was staged at the Luisenburg . Stephan Lehmann played the Gailtalerin .

In 2009/2010 the piece was performed at Ehrenberg Castle in Reutte, with "Bluatschink" Toni Knittel as farmer and Sabine "Zabine" Kapfinger as Gailtaler.

In 2011 the piece was performed on the Schlossgraben stage of the Steyr u. a. performed with Austropop musicians Wilfried Scheutz, Peter Faerber (farmer, 1st farmhand), Alfred Pfeifer (Gailtalerin) and the musicians of the shortpeople. Burg actor and director Frank Hoffmann was responsible for the direction and Christian Kolonovits was responsible for the music arrangements.

In July 2011, two performances were given at Clam Castle , with Joesi Prokopetz as a farmer, Christoph Fälbl as a boy and Klaus Eberhartinger as a Gailtaler, with Wolfgang Ambros singing. In August 2011, the original stage version by and with MO diving came to Vienna for the first time after an eleven-year term in Munich. The performances took place in the new Vienna City Hall.

action

The plot, which is not meant to be very serious, describes the fate of a mountain farmer , his son, his servants and maidservants . An “uncanny, intangible fear” of the mountain weighs on people . The mountain lures them to climb it, it's like "as if it were calling you sometimes" . But those who succumb to the temptation run the risk of losing their life, because “the mountain doesn't know what to do” .

The farmer's son, the “Bua” , also hears the call. In addition, he meets the Gailtaler woman, who makes him sexual promises in case he will conquer the mountain for her. And so it happens that the son "goes up" and falls in the process.

The album ends with the father hearing the voice of his dead child one month after the accident, which leads him to climb the Watzmann too.

In the film, an additional plot is added here: The father returns from the mountain alive and marries the Gailtaler. Together, they use loans to transform the farm into a huge ski center. The farmer is now free from the Watzmann, but in the clutches of the bank. In the original stage version, the dumb servant is the only one who survives because he is simply too lazy to answer the call of the mountain.

The dance floor group K2 took the piece in 1994 as an inspiration and source of quotations for their number Der Berg ruft .

The actors and their roles

The musicians

Track list

No. title m: ss Music / lyrics
A.1 Folk choir: Hollaröhdulliöh 7:35 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Overture Chr. Kolonovits
prolog MOTiving
A.2 Song: Hollaröhdulliöh, 1st part 3:30 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Conversation of the servants, part 1 MOTiving
A.3 Song: Hollaröhdulliöh, 2nd part 4:03 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Scene: "The calling" MOTiving
A.4 Song: The mountain 4:26 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
B.1 Scene: "The Hunt" 1:45 MOTiving
B.2 Song: Oh St. Hubertus 4:30 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Conversation of the servants, part 2 MOTiving
B.3 Song: Die Gailtalerin, 1st part 3:57 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Scene: "The Gailtalerin" MOTiving
B.4 Song: Die Gailtalerin, 2nd part 3:12 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Scene: "The fight" MOTiving
B.5 Song: Aufi, Aufi! 4:48 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Scene: "The mountain gets the boys" MOTiving
B.6 Song: He's falling 3:09 W. Ambros / J. Prokopetz
Scene: "The measure is not full yet" MOTiving

The musical

The actors and their roles

  • Manfred O. diving: father, Gailtalerin, 1st servant
  • Christoph Fälbl : Bua, 2nd farmhand
  • Gabi Rothmüller : Maid
  • Roswitha Rodrigues: maid
  • Karin Ebner-Kofler: Maid
  • Karl-Maria Drexler: Servant
  • Edgar Fell: Servant
  • Kevin Pinnock: Servant

The musicians

Track list

  • Overture (Kolonovits)
  • Hollarödulliöh (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Conversation of the servants (diving)
  • Hollarödulliöh (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Calling (diving)
  • The mountain (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • The hunt (diving)
  • Oh St. Hubertus (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Conversation of the servants (diving)
  • Song of the Knechte (Koller, Dzikowski / diving)
  • The Gailtalerin (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Entry of the villagers (Sullivan, Staribacher / diving)
  • Hiatamadl (Sullivan, Staribacher)
  • The village festival (Sullivan, Staribacher / diving)
  • She is back (Koller, Dzikowski / diving)
  • Conjuration (Sullivan, Staribacher)
  • Naked and bare (Koller, Dzikowski / diving, Prokopetz)
  • G'nagelte Schuach (Perkins, German: Prokopetz)
  • Aufi or net aufi (diving)
  • The seduction (diving)
  • Downhill and uphill (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Conversation of the servants (diving)
  • The servant life (Koller, Dzikowski / diving)
  • The fight (diving)
  • Aufi, aufi (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • The mountain gets the boys (diving)
  • He falls (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • The measure is not yet full (diving)
  • Final (Koller, Dzikowski / Ambros)
  • The reward (diving)
  • Hollaröhdulliöh (Ambros / Prokopetz)
  • Schifoan (Ambros)
  • The Curse of the Bank (diving)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] Website of the Steyr Music Festival. Retrieved March 21, 2011.