Beyond the Horizon (Musical)
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| Original title: | Beyond the horizon |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Udo Lindenberg |
| Book: | Thomas Brussig / Udo Lindenberg / Ulrich Waller |
| Original direction: | Ulrich Waller |
| Premiere: | January 13, 2011 |
| Place of premiere: | Berlin, Theater on Potsdamer Platz |
| Playing time: | about 3 hours |
| Place and time of the action: | East Berlin (1983–1989, today) Moscow (1985), Hamburg (today) |
Behind the horizon is a musical that tells a love story based on songs by the singer Udo Lindenberg . The book was written by Thomas Brussig ( Sonnenallee ) in close collaboration with Udo Lindenberg and Ulrich Waller.
Performance duration
The musical premiered on January 13, 2011 and was performed for five years - during this time, more than two million viewers saw the 1,800 performances. However, after ticket sales "dropped significantly" according to the operator, it was announced in January 2016 that the theater on Potsdamer Platz will be closed at the end of August 2016. Then the musical ran from November 2016 to October 2017, slightly modified, in the Hamburg Operettenhaus.
- Berlin : Theater am Potsdamer Platz : Premiere: January 13, 2011, Derniere: August 28, 2016
- Hamburg : Operettenhaus : Premiere: November 10, 2016, Derniere: October 29, 2017
action
The musical tells how Udo Lindenberg falls in love with the FDJ activist Jessy at a concert in the Palast der Republik and what problems arise from it. According to Lindenberg's own statement, this meeting actually happened one way or another. The only historical facts are the concert in East Berlin in 1983, the GDR tour that was ultimately canceled by the GDR leadership, and the concert in Moscow in 1985, and the fact that Lindenberg has a son from this affair. The political and historical environment with the GDR, Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is also depicted in different scenes, mostly in a very cabaret-like form. Doping in the GDR is also discussed. The most striking prop is a Udo hat with a diameter of 9 m, which mostly hovers over the stage, but is also used as a backdrop in some scenes. Another important backdrop is a replica of a section of the Berlin Wall , which also serves as a projection surface for scenes that could only be shown on the stage with enormous effort.
first act
At the beginning of the first act, Udo Lindenberg sings the song "Mädchen aus Ostberlin" while standing on an oversized hat that usually hovers over the stage during the musical .
In the following scene, the journalist Mareike receives an order from her boss to find the girl from East Berlin sung about in the previous scene for a newspaper article. During her research, she comes across a photo of Udo Lindenberg, in which he is hugging an unnamed girl. The journalist goes on a search and finds out the name, Jessy Schmidt, and the address of the girl photographed there, visits her in her apartment and also shows her the photo in which Jessy recognizes herself. After initial hesitation, Jessy finally begins to tell the story ( “Boogie-Woogie Girls” ). Jessy lived with her family in Pankow at that time and is a member of the FDJ and singer of the House of Young Talents (HDJT) and is therefore one of the chosen ones who attended Udo Lindenberg's peace concert in East Berlin's Palace of the Republic on October 25, 1983 and told him about it to hand over flowers. Jessy's brother Elmar, who is an ardent Udo fan himself, is unhappy that he's not allowed to come, but Jessy's friend Marco, a top GDR athlete, is not particularly enthusiastic. In the course of the dispute, Jessy turns away from the family ( "I often dreamed of stealing a sailing boat" ).
At the concert, which is monitored by two employees of the Ministry for State Security (MfS) , the FDJ choir first sings the song “Our songs are singing about peace” , before Udo Lindenberg and his panic orchestra finally perform with the song “Odyssey” . When, despite the previous careful selection by the government, the audience got out of hand, even the MfS employees, who were actually loyal to the state, found it difficult to control themselves and began to tap their feet slightly. After the concert, Jessy and Udo meet and immediately fall in love ( “Until the end of the world” ) and also have to flee from Stasi employees. During the concert, other young people, including Elmar, try to get to the Palace of the Republic, but are brutally pushed away by the police, injuring Elmar among others.
At home the family is talking about the concert. Jessy learns that Elmar was trying to get to the concert. While the family and Marco are very skeptical about Udo, Elmar, who makes it clear to his parents that he is a fan of Udo ( "I am a rocker" ), and Jessy are enthusiastic about Udo and can hardly be stopped ( "Against the flow" ) . Meanwhile, the minister and his staff meet to discuss how to proceed ( “street fever” ). He first complains about the youth at the time and their aggressive mood and then explains that it is therefore impossible to allow Udo Lindenberg's tour , but it is also not possible to cancel the tour, otherwise the international reputation will suffer. So they decide to hold a Udo look-alike casting under the code name Operation Lederhose .
At home the mood is bad, because Marco is very unhappy because the GDR is boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles . Meanwhile, Jessy is sitting at the radio. A little later, when the family is not there, Jessy tells Elmar that she wrote a letter to Udo and wants to send it off. Elmar explains to her that this letter would be intercepted by the Stasi in the normal post and that it would therefore be necessary to bring the letter across the border first and explains how it works ( "radio song" ). Since Jessy is very clumsy, he finally goes to the Tränenpalast himself to hand over the letter to a foreign citizen with the request to post it. But he is caught by the Stasi and taken into custody, which can be seen on a scene projected onto the wall. A little later, because of the intercepted letter, Jessy is visited by two employees of the MfS, who pressure her to sign a form through which she becomes an IM of the MfS and is given "earthworm" as an alias. After the MfS employees have left the apartment, Jessy is completely desperate ( “guitars instead of creaking” ).
Her signature also forces her to participate in the Lederhose operation. At one of the meetings, Professor Scheuerlich first tries to explain the Udo phenomenon in a pseudo-scientific way, but he does not succeed. Then the applicants are allowed to put their skills to the test, performing mostly peculiar interpretations of Udo Lindenberg's songs ( "Reeperbahn" , "Sonderzug nach Pankow" ). In the end, this casting is canceled unsuccessfully because the officers classify all persons as unsuitable.
Then she tries to suppress the memory of Udo, as it is not possible for her to meet him ( "Forbidden City" ). However, as the viewer sees in a scene projected onto the wall, Elmar is released in return for Jessy's cooperation. Since he can no longer stand it in the east, he decides to flee over the wall, which he manages with a balloon ( "thumb in the wind" ).
Second act
One evening after his escape to the West, the family received a call from Elmar who wanted to talk to his father. The latter initially refuses, as he does not want to talk to refugees from the republic. But when Elmar says that he bought a car in the West within a few days, for which you had to wait several years in the GDR, his father wants to know more about the advantages of the West. At the end of the conversation he lets Jessy tell: "A bright star flies behind the full moon to the red star", which Jessy deciphered a little later as: Udo Lindenberg (bright star = a star) in three weeks (behind the full moon), to Moscow (red star , a symbol of the USSR). Jessy travels to Moscow and meets Udo again at his concert. Both have fun ( “Moscow” ) and spend the night in Rosija's Tsar's suite. But even there they have to flee from the Stasi. Finally, Udo cheers Jessy up with “Behind the Horizon” .
After returning to Berlin, Jessy finds out that she is pregnant. Therefore, her father tries to persuade her to have an abortion, which she strictly rejects ( "All That You Are For Me" ). Eventually she marries Marco, who is unable to conceive due to the excessive use of performance-enhancing substances funded by Jessy's father. Since she really wants to see Udo, she tries to be allowed to leave, which she is not allowed to do, so that she finally has to give up ( "If you sag" ).
When her son was two years old, she received a call on the evening of November 9, 1989 that the wall had come down. Therefore she leaves the apartment with her mother and leaves her son alone with Marco. In the west, she finally meets her brother Elmar again, who tells her that Udo Lindenberg will be holding a concert in the Deutschlandhalle that she should definitely come to. After a long hesitation, she finally comes to the concert where Udo plays the song “Seid Willkommen In Berlin” . After the concert she also meets Udo, who doesn't want anything to do with her anymore, because, he says, his nightingale has turned into an earthworm. The reason for the statement is his encounter with two MfS employees who wanted to sell him his files. He refused, but the staff explained to him that he had been spied on by IM earthworm Jessy Schmidt. Because of Udo's rejection, Jessy is sad ( "I don't love you anymore" ). The review ends with this situation.
The reporter now wants to quickly publish the article, but is slowed down by the sad Jessy. A little later, Jessy's son Steve comes home and is confronted by the reporter with the statement that his father is a famous singer and his first name is Udo. Steve is not at all enthusiastic about it at first, because he believes it is the pop singer Udo Jürgens , but is then informed by the reporter that it is Udo Lindenberg. When his mother asks him that she had found drugs in his jacket pocket, he explains that she shouldn't complain about it, because her parents Marco, with whom he had had doubts for a long time about whether he was his father, the Concerned about doping substances. Finally, Marco also comes home with whom there is a discussion ( “Im Arsch” ).
- A few months later
In the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg, Udo Lindenberg is standing in a scene projected onto a screen ( "Mister Nobody" ) and is preparing for the upcoming double casting, in which he is supposed to choose the right double from the applicants. This casting is very happy ( “Andrea Doria” ). A little later, when all the Udo are petrified, Jessy and Steve arrive. Steve is confused at first, but Jessy recognizes the real Udo very quickly and finally reconciles with him after a discussion ( "What has time made of us" ) and reveals to him that Steve is his son. Afterwards Steve and Udo sing the song "Ganz anders" . At the end everyone sings the song “Mein Ding” together .
occupation
| roll | First cast Berlin 2011 | First cast Hamburg 2016 |
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| Udo | Serkan Kaya | Alex Melcher 1 |
| Jessy (young) | Josephin Busch | |
| Jessy (today) | Anika Mauer | Nadja Petri |
| Elmar | Christian Sengewald | Marcus Schinkel |
| Steve | Christopher Brose | David Nádvornik |
| Jessy's father, Marco (today), Eddy Kante | Thomas Schumann | Boris Boehringer |
| Stasi Patschinsky | Holger Dexne | |
| Stasi Krause | Ralf Novak | |
| Jessie's mother, press officer | Dorina Maltschewa | |
| Mareike | Nadja Petri | Britta Boehlke |
| Marco (young) | Sebastian Stipp | Karsten Jaskiewicz |
| minister | Rainer Brandt | |
| Barbara Saftig, choir director | Ilona Schulz | Dorina Maltschewa |
| Stasi Fritsche | Florian Hacke | Lutz Standop |
| Kmetsch | Marco Fahrland | |
| Kremer | Lorenz Liebold | Thomas Schreier |
| The madman | Patrick tribe | |
| Dr. Werner, Prof. Scheuerlich | Joachim Paul Assböck | Boris Boehringer |
1 Serkan Kaya was also scheduled for the premiere in Hamburg, but he was injured during rehearsals when he fell from the five-meter-high Udo hat.
Track list
This list shows all pieces used in the musical, broken down by files. If these are not available on the official CD, this is noted in brackets.
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first act
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Second act
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At the Hamburg performance, the two songs “Through the hard times” and “One must do the job” from the CD “ Stronger than Time ” (2016) were added.
CD release
- Behind the Horizon - the Musical - Cast album, 2011
Awards
Web links
- Behind the horizon at stage-entertainment.de
- Behind the horizon review at musicalzentrale.de
- There is not enough singing in Udo Lindenberg's musical, review on welt-online, January 13, 2011 , accessed on January 13, 2011
Individual evidence
- ^ Theater city Berlin: Musical theater at Potsdamer Platz is closed - Berlin - Tagesspiegel
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/theaterstadt-berlin-musicaltheater-am-potsdamer-platz-wird-endet/12857450.html
- ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article208696427/Hinterm-Horizont-Panik-Premiere-auf-dem-Kiez.html Interview with Udo Lindenberg on the day of the premiere in Hamburg, accessed on November 3, 2017
- ↑ Lübecker Nachrichten , November 11, 2016
- ↑ THE ALBUM TO THE SHOW | News | Hinterm Horizont, Berlin ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2014 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.
