Freyer Ensemble
The Freyer Ensemble is a theater ensemble that was founded in 1988 by the painter and theater maker Achim Freyer . The Freyer Ensemble is a registered association and has its seat in Berlin .
Achim Freyer and his ensemble are looking for an experimental, interdisciplinary theater approach in the sense of a total work of art , more than in his large theater and opera productions . The results are often characterized by their own, strongly poetic, colorful and humorous pieces, which Freyer always develops together with the ensemble. For Freyer, this joint artistic work always has the claim to work "artistically researching". Since 1988 over 20 own pieces have been created. The majority of the ensemble members also took part in the film "MET AMORPH OSEN" made by Achim Freyer in 1994 (premiere 44th Berlin International Film Festival 1994). Formative for the work and the composition of the ensemble are artists from different disciplines such as acrobats (e.g. Lajos Kovács ), dancers (e.g. Chandana M. Hörmann, Aniara Amos ), actors (e.g. Daniel Bausch , Rudolf Krause , Britta Jarmers ), singer ( Nyla van Ingen ), stage designer and dramaturge . It is not uncommon for the dancers to become actors, the singers to acrobats and the costume designers to dancers in the ensemble's productions. This sometimes gives the pieces the charm of professional amateur theater . The ensemble does not have a permanent venue. The productions are mostly commissioned works by small and large theaters and opera houses as well as festivals ( Schwetzinger Festspiele , Berliner Ensemble , Bundeskunsthalle Bonn , Festspielhaus Hellerau ).
From 1988 to 1997 the ensemble was directed by the dramaturge Sven Neumann . From 2000 to 2003 the director Aniara Amos was the artistic director of the ensemble. In 2003 the dramaturge and art historian Boris Friedewald became director of the ensemble, which he directed until 2005. Musicologist Julia Lukjanova directed the ensemble from 2005 to 2011.
Previous pieces by the Freyer Ensemble:
- Freyer and Toscanini rehearse Traviata (WP 1988, Oper Kiel)
- Rolling / Kids (Premiere 1993, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Plat, Berlin)
- About the loneliness of things (premiere 1995, Festival for New Music Rümlingen)
- Mass in B minor (Premiere 1996, Schwetzingen Festival)
- AB UND AN (Premiere September 30, 2004, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn)
- When you meet a dead dog or Die Probe (Homage for Bertolt Brecht) (Premiere August 18, 2006, Berliner Ensemble)