Mental cinema (musical)

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Musical dates
Title: Head cinema
Original language: German
Music: Thomas Zaufke
Lyrics: Peter Lund
Premiere: April 13, 2017
Place of premiere: Neukölln Opera , Berlin
Place and time of the action: in Berlin today

Kopfkino is a musical by Peter Lund (text) and Thomas Zaufke (music) , which premiered on April 13, 2017 at the Neukölln Opera in Berlin. It is subtitled A musical film project. Or a cinematic musical .

content

The 18-year-old Lennard applies to a flat share in Berlin, because he wants to escape his Swabian homeland Pforzheim. Lennard is supposed to pay 500 euros for the small room in the apartment with the sloppy eat-in kitchen in which a pile of unwashed laundry is piled up. His new roommates are the deeply relaxed and politically present Ben and the crazy Fine, who is constantly throwing drugs. Ben likes to shuffle naked through the kitchen and is at home a lot because he seems to think less of work. He wonders why his new roommate always takes so long breaks when talking. This is because Lennard has six other alter egos, the inner voices of his conscience, in his head, all of which are talking at the same time and making every decision difficult for him. Lennard takes his pauses while speaking because parts of him are always thinking. The voices in his head consist of the hetero hack and daredevil Boris and his harmonious feminine side Helena. Then there is the foresighted reason Sophia in the bourgeois secretary look, Lennard's inner child Theo, the pubescent Tess, his irrationality, who appears as a punk girl, and his clinging fear Jürgen, wearing glasses in a polo shirt. They all tell Lennard their opinion without being asked. Neither Fine nor Ben have any idea who they have brought into the flat and who are his whisperers. Then Lennard's sister Mona turns up from his old home in the shared apartment, whom he claimed to have once said goodbye to life with a jump from the Sparkasse skyscraper. Mona was looking for Lennard because she was worried about her brother.

characters

Lennard, Fine, Ben and Mona are real characters. The voices that Lennard hears and sees as parts of his multiple personality have a name, appear in pairs and form interest groups inside him, such as the couple of the super-ego parents Helena and Boris, who drink themselves into sexual arousal and delirium and emotionally blackmail and neglect their son, the rebellious sister Tess and the inner child Theo and, similar to the animated film Everything is upside down, a voice of fear and one of reason, which in the form of Jürgen and Sophia also form a couple.

Lennard: Lennard is an 18-year-old who fled from Pforzheim to Berlin from his parents.

Fine: Lennard's new roommate Fine is not averse to a drug cocktail .

Ben: Lennard's new roommate Ben, whose real name is Benjamin von Salesch, is a loudmouthed but lazy Antifa guy.

Mona: Lennard's sister Mona comes to Berlin from the Swabian province to look for the missing brother. For a long time it remains unclear in the play whether it is real or at least another of Lennard's voices, because he claimed that she once “kissed” herself by jumping from the Sparkasse tower, Pforzheim's tallest building.

Boris: Lennard's father Boris is a cool and always horny macho.

Helena: Like her husband Boris, the sensual, feminine, harmonious and in need of harmony Helena has an alcohol problem. Actually, their marriage only existed on paper.

Jürgen: The fearful polo shirt and glasses wearer Jürgen warns Lennard of dangers.

Sophia: Sophia represents the admonishing reason and thus also boredom. Besides, she has an affair with Boris.

Tess: Tess is a teenage punk version of Lennard's sister Mona and she is completely crazy.

Theo: Theo is Lennard's inner child .

Stage design and video

The stage design for the Berlin premiere was done by Daria Kornysheva. She designed the communal kitchen, the hallway and Lennard's room in the wide-screen panorama. The stage design reminds Kevin Clarke of that of the musical Line 1 .

A film team was hired for the musical. Whenever Lennard, who hardly dares to leave the apartment, goes out of the flat into the city, film sequences are used on the stage that interrupt the action on the stage and show the nightmare that he has in public space, in a big city feels hostile to him, but also parties and trips that Lennard experiences with Ben and Fine. These are projected onto the wall in the background. The film was shot in Kreuzberg, where the play also includes the shared flat that Lennard is moving into.

List of songs

  1. My voices & me
  2. Just be yourself
  3. Viewing the apartment
  4. The sink is leaking
  5. I see you
  6. Don't go to bed yet
  7. position
  8. High
  9. The song about sexual orientation
  10. The tantrum
  11. Bla bla bla
  12. Family constellation
  13. Emotional block
  14. Fear & caution
  15. Theo snaps
  16. The bad trip
  17. Listen to him
  18. Don't go to bed yet - bonus version

publication

Kopfkino premiered on April 13, 2017 at the Neuköllner Oper in Berlin. A number of former University of the Arts graduates were present at the premiere, including Nicky Wuchinger and Jan-Philipp Rekeszus .

Ensemble of the world premiere

(April 13 to May 14, 2017 at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin)

Creative team

  • Production: Peter Lund
  • Musical direction: Hans-Peter Kirchberg and Tobias Bartholmeß
  • Choreography: Neva Howard
  • Set design and costumes: Daria Kornysheva
  • Video: Richard Marx

occupation

  • Sophia: Jasmin Eberl
  • Fine: Linda Hartmann
  • Mona: Lisa Hörl
  • Tess: Friederike Kury
  • Helena: Lisa Katharina Toh
  • Boris: Adrian Burri
  • Lennard: Markus Fetter
  • Ben: Jonathan Francke
  • Jürgen: Helge Lodder
  • Theo: Nico Went

reception

Kevin Clarke from klassik.com explains that the musical is about young people who feel lost, dive into the Internet and sometimes no longer know what is real and what is digital. The experiences of her life are drug and alcohol crashes, love stress, financial difficulties, the processing of dysfunctional family stories and questions about one's own sexual orientation. Lennard is confronted with different voices in his head, so Clarke, all of which represent family members, including himself in more youthful versions, with these imaginary figures wandering like ghosts through the flat-sharing community and commenting on the plot, as the choir in the ancient tragedy commented on.

Birgit Walter from the Berliner Zeitung explains the title of the musical: "His voices [...] create a virulent mental cinema and with this chaos repeatedly drive Lennard close to the limits of his psychological stability." Walter also describes mental cinema as "entertaining, funny and unexpectedly down to the last formulation. "

Andre Sokolowski from Freitag thinks that head cinema has become little more or not much less than a Berlin youth musical that looks a bit like Line 1 , sounds snappy, gaudy and loud and "simply sweeps the masses away."

What makes head cinema so worth seeing, says Kai Wulfes from musicalzentrale.de , are its great singer-performers, who also danced the many jagged, modern choreographies of Neva Howard with great precision . About Markus Fetter , who plays the main character in the play, Wulfes says that the role of Lennard is perfectly cast with him. At first he plays a torn and intimidated country egg with no perspective, but which at the end of the piece finds itself and confidently goes its own way, says Wulfes.

Anja Röhl from the Junge Welt calls Kopfkino a great psycho-agit-prop musical. With the play Peter Lund and Thomas Zaufke would have created something like a critical psychology of the capitalist crisis. In principle, all of today's problems would be addressed, says Röhl, who says about the story: "The content is brilliantly implemented in language, in dialogues, in original songs, in powerful, strongly convincing, never boring dance interludes."

Awards

German Musical Theater Prize 2017

  • Nomination for best musical
  • Nomination for Best Choreography ( Neva Howard )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kevin Clarke: New Lund / Zaufke Musical in Berlin: The Song of Sexual Orientation In: klassik.com, April 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Anja Röhl: Voice eats fire In: Junge Welt, edition of April 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Kai Wulfes: Comedy: Kopfkino - I am many In: musicalzentrale.de. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Birgit Walter: 'Kopfkino': A brilliant new musical by Peter Lund and Thomas Zaufke In: Berliner Zeitung, April 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/neukoellner-oper-spielt-wg-geister-haben-laute-stimmen/19673232.html
  6. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 24, 2017 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.inforadio.de
  7. ↑ https://www.zitty.de/wir-wollten-etwas-neues-aushaben/
  8. ^ Raphael Jung: New Musical in Berlin: Kopfkino at the Neuköllner Oper In: rbb Online, April 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ Birgit Walter: 'Kopfkino': A brilliant new musical by Peter Lund and Thomas Zaufke In: Berliner Zeitung, April 18, 2017.
  10. ↑ Andre Sokolowski: 'Kopfkino' in the Neuköllner Oper In: freitag.de, April 19, 2017.
  11. ↑ Anja Röhl: Voice eats fire In: Junge Welt, edition of April 24, 2017.
  12. ↑ Two Neukölln productions nominated for Musical Theater Prize In: kulturradio.de, 22 August 2017.
  13. ↑ German Musical Theater Prize 2017 In: deutschemusicalakademie.de. Retrieved September 19, 2017.