Gallissas
The Abbey Road Concert Gallissas Theater Publishing and Media Agency is a Theaterverlag from Berlin and one of the major agencies for plays and musicals in Germany.
history
Gallissas was founded in 2005 by Bettina Migge-Volkmer, who was previously authorized signatory at Felix Bloch Erben , and Fred Olav Johannessen, director of the Danish stage publisher Nordiska ApS. Until 2009, Gallissas was also an artist agency for directors, set designers and actors. Since 2013, the headquarters of the publishing house has been in the former Tagesspiegel building on Potsdamer Str. In Berlin, previously it was on Wielandstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg. With the move to Potsdamer Str. The Atelier Weyers, which was previously located in Hamburg, became part of the publishing house and Christoph Weyers became a co-owner of Gallissas. Bettina and Christoph Weyers have been running the publishing house together with Fred Olav Johannessen since their marriage in 2015.
Catalog
Gallissas represents over 130 musicals and 250 plays in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, including the entire work of Maury Yeston and Eric Woolfson . The catalog also includes the well-known musicals My Fair Lady , Spamalot , The Addams Family , The Last Ship , Wie im Himmel , BIG FISH , ON YOUR FEET , HEIDI , SCROOGE - A Christmas Story and many more.
In addition to international license business, Gallissas has specialized in the development of new fabrics. In recent years, works such as Oliver Twist , Battleship Potemkin , Romy - the Musical , Timm Thaler , Tell , Santa Maria , Kohlhiesels Töcher , Christmas Angels Do n't Kiss , HEIDI , Scrooge and many more have emerged. Gallissas exclusively represents the catalog of the New York agency Theatrical Rights Worldwide in the entire German-speaking area including the Benelux.
Piece development
Gallissas developed new musicals with the following authors and composers, among others:
- Santa Maria with songs by Roland Kaiser, book and text: Norbert Hamerschmidt
- Tell - the musical based on Friedrich Schiller , book: Hans-Dieter Schreeb, text: Wolfgang Adenberg , music: Marc Schubring
- Nijinsky by Jürg Burth (based on the life of Vaslav Nijinsky )
- Timm Thaler - Das Musical by Xavier Naidoo (lyrics), Michael Herberger (music) and Markus Heitz (book and text)
- Kohlhiesel's daughters based on Hanns Kräly by Hans Dieter Schreeb (book), Michael Chadim (lyrics), composition Shay Cohen
Services for producers
In addition to the classic licensing business with plays and musicals, the company offers other services for producers such as casting, putting together creative teams and developing equipment and marketing the productions. In the creative area, Gallissas works with the set designer Christoph Weyers , who runs his studio in the publishing house.
owner
When the company was founded, Gallissas was owned by Bettina Migge-Volkmer and 50% each by the Norwegian investment company Folin AS, which is partly owned by Fred Olav Johannessen and also has stakes in other theater publishers. The set designer Christoph Weyers has been co-owner of the publishing house and creative director of the company since 2014 .