Hero Müller
| Musical dates | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Hero Müller |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Thomas Zaufke |
| Lyrics: | Peter Lund |
| Premiere: | May 1, 2006 |
| Place of premiere: | Berlin, Neukölln Opera |
| Place and time of the action: | the location of an automobile manufacturer, in a near future |
Held Müller is a musical by Peter Lund (text) and Thomas Zaufke (music) and was premiered on May 1, 2006 (on “ Labor Day ”) in the Neukölln Opera .
content
Herwig Müller is one of many. Six thousand to be precise. The Deutsche Automobilwerke want to lay off so many workers so that they can continue to play in the international market in the future. But then the company headquarters is blown up, and with it the chairman of the board, Friedemann von Tilsit, who is suspected of corruption. Germany and television front woman Sabrina van Dreesen agree: Such an assassination was long overdue. And suddenly Herwig Müller is a wanted assassin nationwide. Which of course is nothing more than a tragic mistake. But this error brought Herwig more attention in a few days than he had ever received from his wife, child or employer before in his life. And Herwig is not only a real hero for Sabrina van Dreesen. Everything could be so beautiful, if it weren't for the scheming machinations of Vice President Heidlinde Waghausen. And who, in Herwig's name, carried out all these attacks on the German automobile works? And why does head technician Hinrichsen have to die? Question after question. And none will go unanswered in this story. Germany is experiencing a hot spring.
reception
Held Müller bears the subtitle “A German Musical” , and Peter Lund calls it “a really bad piece with surprisingly beautiful music” , and thus tries “within the scope of a musical - the connections between work and capital, the dependencies on TV Presenters from producers and television directors to discuss the interplay between the international market and national interests. ” The result is a political play about poor, sorted out unemployed people and the evil auto industry , with Lund venturing beyond the reality of the Federal Republic of Germany.
“Lund's characters are ideal-typical characters designed to be quickly recognizable, who in this way are allowed to acquire cabaret-satirical comedy, but also tragic depth.” So the hero portrayed in the play is actually an anti-hero. The 58-year-old Herwig Müller, who has been a worker at Deutsche Automobilwerke for 35 years, has a silent role in the play. He is not angry, he would submit if you let him. When his wife also left him because she couldn't stand his bravery anymore, Müller would like to be driven to death, but everyone skilfully curves past him. But when he gets into the wanted list of the investigation, Müller's best time begins, because now even his son admires him, and his wife also wants him back. On television she begs him: “Please get in touch!” The shrill, media-overloaded world, however, pulls him into the stands, glorifies him as the hero of a new liberation of workers, celebrates him as a savior.
Ballad chansons and rhythmic rock ensemble numbers with many rough edges are sung, which Zaufke created with Broadway- typical smack.
Cast for the first season (Neuköllner Oper, May / June 2006)
Artistic management team
- Production: Bernd Mottl
- Musical direction: Hans-Peter Kirchberg / Tobias Bartholmeß
- Choreography: Götz Hellriegel
- Stage design: Jürgen Kirner
- Costume design: Nicole von Graevenitz
Ensemble (in alphabetical order)
- Franziska Becker (as Heidlinde Waghausen)
- Dagmar Biener (as Ingrid Müller)
- Marco A. Billep (as Hinrichsen and others)
- Uwe Dreves (as Friedemann von Tilsit)
- Doris Prilop (as Sabrina van Dreesen)
- Roswitha Stadlmann (as Jule)
- Gerd Lukas Storzer (as Mischa)
- Eckhart Strehle (as Herwig Müller)
- Thorsten Tinney (as Uli Wessling and others)
- Ulrich Wiggers (as Kalle Kornowski)
Further performances
- 2010: Production of the theater youth club and the jazz band of the musician factory Frank Wedel, direction: Sebastian Socha (Stendaler Rolandfest on the summer lounge stage at Sperlingsberg and Theater der Altmark in Stendal)
- 2011: Production by Theater LUNTE in cooperation with KKT e. V., director: Christine Bossert ( Wilhelma-Theater in Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt, Theaterkeller Sindelfingen)
Press reviews
- “It's about the so-called angry citizens , politicians and entrepreneurs, who cook their own soup far away from the people and realize far too late how wrong everything is - if they do it at all [...] when there on the stage romping, screaming, crying and dies, then Stuttgart 21 also resonates . ” (Lukas Jenkner: Premiere in Kontakt-Theater starts a play with an oppressive reference to reality, Stuttgarter Zeitung of March 25, 2011)
- "One can only be happy about such plays that are aware that the class struggle has never stopped." (Detlef Kannapin: Klassenkampf im Theater, Des Blättchen 9th year, Berlin, May 15, 2006, issue 10)
- "The plot by Held Müller is impressively simple, constructed in a dramaturgically exciting way and downright ideal for our time and this place" Ekkehart Krippendorff: Hero without Will, derFreitag Online from May 12, 2006
- “The Neukölln Opera hits the bull's eye [...] Peter Lund and composer Thomas Zaufke have given the Neukölln Opera an anti-musical that makes the efforts of our major Berlin opera houses look old-fashioned. [...] 'Held Müller' is a melodramatic revolutionary farce, media scolding and malicious cabaret in one. [...] The story is a flawless German contemporary disaster, exaggerated into the lunatic [...] Zaufke's earwigs crawl unerringly into the brain and into the feet anyway. " (Volker Tarnow, Berliner Morgenpost)
- “No question about it, 'Held Müller' is an extremely topical and truly 'German musical'.” Axel Schock: Man, now defend yourself, taz Online from May 3, 2006
List of songs (selection)
- A country is more than its borders
- People like you, Müller
- Don't say anything now
- What does Mr. Müller think?
- Build cars
- An assassination attempt!
- Hero Müller
- Enough is enough
- What am I looking for?
- To be alive
- We want to talk
- Time she left
- Without words
- Cuba
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the Neukölln Opera ( accessed : March 20, 2013) ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Peter Lund quoted in: Dirk Krampitz: Herr Müller & other Helden der Arbeit , DIE WELT Online from April 30, 2006 (accessed: March 18, 2014)
- ↑ Axel Schock, "Human, now defend yourself" taz Online from May 3, 2006 (accessed: March 20, 2013)
- ↑ Axel Schock, "Human, now defend yourself" taz Online from May 3, 2006, (accessed: March 20, 2013)
- ↑ Birgit Walter, "Everyone knows a miller like that" Berliner Zeitung Online from May 3, 2006, (accessed: March 20, 2013)
- ↑ Axel Schock, "Human, now defend yourself" taz Online from May 3, 2006, (accessed: March 20, 2013)
- ↑ Internet site of the musician factory Frank Wedel (accessed: March 20, 2013) ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Kommunales Kontakttheater Stuttgart (accessed: March 20, 2013) ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, May 3, 2006
