Ascension command

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Kommando Himmelfahrt is an interdisciplinary theater collective founded in 2008 by the Hamburg composer Jan Dvorak and the Berlin director Thomas Fiedler , which artistically deals with social and scientific utopias .

history

Dvorak and Fiedler studied at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater in the nineties, which is when their first collaboration dates. After engagements at various German and Swiss theaters, they founded Kommando Himmelfahrt in 2008 as a free-producing artist collective with a focus on music theater . A permanent partner is the Internationale Kulturfabrik Kampnagel Hamburg under director Amelie Deuflhard . The group produced in Hamburg, Berlin, Freiburg, Eisenach, Meiningen, Cottbus, Chur and Zurich. The theater scholar Julia Warnemünde has been a member of the group since 2013.

Kommando Himmelfahrt became known for its unusually large (up to 700 participants), often participatory music theater projects, most of which are also world premieres. The theatrical funds come from different areas such as performance , pop concert or revue , but also reaktualisieren techniques of historical avant-gardes . The music, which is often newly composed, is somewhere between song, opera and new music and requires both classical and pop musicians to perform.

Based on the biocosmism of the Russian philosopher Nikolai Fjodorowitsch Fjodorow , Commando Ascension deals with utopias and myths and projects them back onto the present. So far, the basis of this occupation have been texts by Plato , Thomas More , Thomas Hobbes , René Descartes , Julien de La Mettrie , Jules Verne , Ernst Haeckel and Antonin Artaud .

Since engaging with the utopian potential of the community is part of the work of Kommando Himmelfahrt, Kommando Himmelfahrt founded the Kampnagel Choir in spring 2014, an open project choir that meets regularly to work on stage.

In 2016, Kommando Himmelfahrt released the CD Man as a Plant as a soundtrack for their music theater installation Geisterbahn on the Berlin label Hook Music from Theater der Zeit Verlag.

Collaborations

The Hamburg-based collective consists of a large number of collaborating artists who come from different, often non-theater areas: In the field of fine arts, Kommando Himmelfahrt works with artists such as the photographer Johanna Diehl or Wil van Iersel, the sculptor Sonja Vordermaier, the artist group niedervolthoudini, the Italian dance company ESPZ, the projection artist Katrin Bethge, the action artist Anik Lazar and the painter Anne Cathrin Ulikowski. The actors and singers included Jan Plewka ( Selig ), Peter Thiessen ( Kante ), Jacqueline S. Blouin, Julia Hummer , Ben Daniel Jöhnk, Franziska Junge, Merten Schroedter , Fabian Gerhardt, Friedrich Liechtenstein and Maria Schrader in the ensemble. Musically, Kommando Himmelfahrt worked alongside the orchestras of various theaters with the Ensemble Mosaik (Berlin), the Ensemble Resonanz (Hamburg), the Nelly Boyd Kreis, the noise trio NYX and individual artists such as Sven Kacirek and Thomas Leboeg.

Work

  • 2018: Salon des lumières concert series and secret box (Nationaltheater Mannheim, Mannheimer Sommer, opera)
  • 2017: How do I get rich and happy? Revue by Mischa Spoliansky (Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opera)
  • 2016/17: Association of Utopians Music Theater with the City of Wuppertal (Wuppertal Opera)
  • 2016: CD release: Man as a Plant (Hook Music, Theater der Zeit GmbH)
  • 2016: Ghost train posthumanist music theater installation for Julien Offray de La Mettrie with Ensemble Resonanz, Aerea Negrot, Friedrich Liechtenstein, Albrecht Hirche (WP Kampnagel Hamburg, Nationaltheater Mannheim, FavoritenFestival Dortmund 2017)
  • 2014: The feeding of the 5000 music theaters with Jan Plewka, Peter Maertens, string ensemble and Kampnagel choir (WP Kampnagel Hamburg and Theater Chur)
  • 2014: Paradise Lost Music Theater based on John Milton with actress and male choir (WP Kampnagel Hamburg)
  • 2013: Utopia (short film, 30 min.)
  • 2013: Utopia 1 and 2 (two-part production based on Thomas More with Friedrich Liechtenstein, Ben Daniel Jöhnk and others, world premiere of the IBA & Kampnagel Hamburg building exhibition)
  • 2012: Leviathan or: Substance, Form and Violence of a State (music theater for mass choir based on Hobbes, UA Kampnagel Hamburg)
  • 2012: House Diehl. Audio / photo book project with Johanna Diehl
  • 2012: Perspective Matters. Staged concert with the mosaic after Descartes, (Berghain Berlin)
  • 2011: About the new. Choral performance for speaking choirs, noise choirs, soloists, percussion and wind instruments. (Hamburg, 2009 - Theater Freiburg, 2011)
  • 2011: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Pop music theater based on Jules Vernes (Premiere Theater Eisenach & Meiningen, Theater Cottbus, 2013)
  • 2011: CD Dark Girls and Music Hall present 'Socrate' by Erik Satie
  • 2010: Dark Girls and Music Hall present Socrate by Erik Satie. New version of the opera as a concept album for band and four singers (WP Kampnagel Hamburg)
  • 2010: The Blob. B-movie dance theater with ESPZ and NYX (Kampnagel Hamburg)
  • 2009: The Ascension Radio Show. Radiophonic theater with live broadcast on several free radio stations (Hebbel-Theater HAU 1, Berlin)
  • 2009: Canti del Capricorno. After Ernst Haeckel and Giacinto Scelsi (Kampnagel Hamburg)
  • 2008: Hamburg Requiem - There is no more firmament. Future Music Picture Show with Jan Plewka and Julia Hummer (WP Kampnagel Hamburg)

Awards

  • 2015 Rolf Mares Prize for feeding the 5000
  • 2016 Nomination for the Georges Tabori Prize 2016
  • 2017 Operetta Frosch January 2017 - Bavarian Radio Prize for How do I get rich and happy? by Mischa Spoliansky at the Nationaltheater Mannheim

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nominations for the George Tabori Prize 2016 - Theater-News - Verlag Theater der Zeit. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: BR-Klassik awards the January Frog 2017: "How do I get rich and happy?" | BR classic . March 15, 2017 ( br-klassik.de [accessed March 6, 2018]).