The lust for life
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| Title: | The lust for life |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Jochen Frank Schmidt |
| Book: | Jochen Frank Schmidt |
| Original direction: | Jochen Frank Schmidt |
| Premiere: | January 2000 |
| Place of premiere: | Waldshut-Tiengen |
| Playing time: | about 2 hours |
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The Lust for Life is the first musical by the composer Jochen Frank Schmidt (music and text). He wrote it at the age of 19. The world premiere took place on January 20, 2000 in the Klettgau-Gymnasium in Waldshut-Tiengen . In March 2008 it was staged in a newly arranged version in the Gloria Theater in Bad Säckingen and performed in 24 performances for three months until the beginning of May. Due to the great success with the public, 11 additional performances were played in addition to the planned 13 performances.
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The musical "Die Lust am Leben" is about the first love between two young people, who is affected by intrigue. A schoolgirl and a schoolboy fall in love, although their characters are actually very different. Anna is the hard-working hard worker and Felix is more of a daredevil who doesn't think much of school. This feeling of being in love, new to her, determines the story. However, Anna's jealous friend, Steffi, tries to separate the two.
music
The music is shaped by the feelings of being in love. “What happened?” Ask the two young people. The songs “The feeling of being in love” and “Weightless” put the emotions into music. You experience heartbreak in “Heartbreaker”, or “What happened?” And “Everything reminds me of you”. A happy ending rounds off the story with a rousing melody.
There is a CD of this musical from 1999 and 2007.
Artistic team for the premiere
Music, text and direction of the musical are by Jochen Frank Schmidt, the sound is created by Alexander Dieterle, the choreography by Verena Klopp & Melanie Bächle. Jörg Peters was responsible for the lighting design.
Cast of the premiere
Anna, the hardworking student, was portrayed by Rahel Eichkorn and Felix, the daredevil, by Jochen Frank Schmidt. The jealous friend Steffi played Nadine Eisenhardt. Esther Heiermeier appeared as a teacher. In addition, a friend Alexandre of Markus Oschwald, as well as the big and the small tree by Thomas Hügle and Felix Behringer were shown. The storyline was designed by Johannes Hog as the narrator. The live band consisted of Anke Johannsen on piano as well as Mattias Tröndle ( bass ) and Knud Johannsen ( saxophone ). The trumpet was played by Simon Altmeier, the trombone by Tobias Gantert and the guitar by Markus Oschwald.
The main roles in the new production in 2008 played Ruben Moratz (as Felix) and Jennifer Nowack (as Anna).
"With his first work 'Lust am Leben', Jochen Frank Schmidt from Horheim made a name for himself as Germany's youngest musical producer in 2000."
Trivia
The musical was performed publicly several times in the Waldshut town hall and in several schools in Switzerland. There it was specially developed for a teaching project, since the topics dealt with in the play such as first love, nerdism or idlers, intrigue and alcohol are important topics for the young people.
Web links
- The lust for life, trailer 2008
- The musical premiered with great success. In: Südkurier of March 2, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Relationship box: Lust for life: The feeling of being in love Musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved February 29, 2016
- ↑ a b c Last curtain for lust for life ; in Südkurier on May 3, 2008. Retrieved on February 29, 2016.
- ↑ Program of the performance
- ↑ Flyer of the school house Margelläcker Wettingen 7./8. September 2000