Gruppo di Valtorta
The Gruppo di Valtorta (later just Valtorta ) was a German cabaret group from the Bavarian town of Ebersberg , which existed from 1989 to 2001. Their style has been characterized as Dadaist or as theater of the absurd . It is named after the Italian mountain village Valtorta , about 15 km east of Lake Como . A street in her hometown Ebersberg is named after Valtorta , the Valtortagasse next to the town hall.
history
The group emerged from a circle of friends that was formed during school days. In the early 1990s, the group created a spoken language that sounds like a deep Bavarian dialect without meaning anything.
Members were Alexander Liegl , later screenwriter and actor, the later doctor Martin Pölcher, Markus Bachmeier, later head of the "Alten Kinos Ebersberg" and owner of an artist agency in Ebersberg, and Marlen Reichert, who joined the cabaret group shortly after graduating from high school. During her time as a cabaret artist, she also worked for Bayerischer Rundfunk and was a member of the group until 1998. Reichert is now a full-time presenter at BR-Klassik .
After Martin Pölcher devoted himself to a professional future as a specialist and left the Ebersberg region, the group was initially continued by the other artists and finally dissolved in 2001.
From the group, a sponsoring association emerged under Markus Bachmeier, which has been running the central cultural institution of the Ebersberg community, the Ebersberg Old Cinema, since 1992. Former members of the group are active in the sponsoring association. Under the direction of Matthias Kiefersauer , a group of young actors ( Sebastian Winkler , Stefan Murr , Katharina Schwägerl and Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow ) brought out a new production of the Valtorta play Mörd! on the stage.
Programs
- 1989: Fool me, you sloppy smile
- 1991: Niamatzo Blaamsepp!
- 1992: middle of the brain - scenes more beautiful than death
- 1994: Murderer!
- 1996: tightness and maintenance
- 1997: Oberwasser - Death knows no relatives
- 2000: Parole 73
Awards
- 1989: Tollwood Prize
- 1990: Passau executioner's ax
- 1991: St. Ingbert Cabaret Prize
- 1992: Obernburger Mühlstein
- 1993: Salzburg bull
- 1995: German Cabaret Prize
- 1995: Cabaret Prize of the City of Munich
- 1996: Promotion Prize of the City of Munich
- 1991, 1993, 1994: AZ star of the week in the evening newspaper
Reviews
" No political cabaret, no music cabaret, but cabaret in the best Valentinesque style is shown here: astonishingly simple, grandiose absurd and latently cryptic ... It is seldom so amusing to be confused .. "
“ How can the humble reviewer's words even come close to doing justice to the breathtakingly complex piece? ... from absurd set pieces wonderfully absurd theater emerges, which makes unrestrained use of the Brother Boulevard, but also of comic strips and cinema. "
“ The humor of the two actors from Valtorta is unique in the German cabaret scene. Without clumsy jokes and instead with a great sense of the poetic depths of everyday life, Liegl and Pölcher design a universe that is reminiscent of Karl Valentin in its touching absurdity. "
swell
- ↑ Sandra Langmann: 25 years of cabaret in the living room. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. September 27, 2017, accessed September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Start with Valtorta play - theater in the style of the house , Süddeutsche Zeitung
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 24, 1995
- ↑ Der Tagesspiegel, November 18, 1995