Martin L. - The musical
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| Title: | Martin L. - The musical |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Gisle Kverndokk |
| Book: | Øystein Wiik |
| Lyrics: | Øystein Wiik |
| Premiere: | July 5, 2008 |
| Place of premiere: | Theater Erfurt (DomStufen Festival) |
| Place and time of the action: | Erfurt, Wittenberg and Worms during the Reformation |
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Martin L. - The Musical or Martin L. - The Luther Musical is a musical by the composer Gisle Kverndokk and the author Øystein Wiik . The German version of the originally Norwegian text was written by Carola Schiefke and Stephan Kopf. On July 5, 2008, the work was premiered as part of the DomStufen Festival of the Erfurt Theater. The content is based on the biography of Martin Luther , which has been supplemented by a fictional love story.
action
Jorg, the doubting side of Martin, opens the game and leads through the action.
Martin L., a young student, meets the bourgeois daughter Ursula Schalbe and falls in love with her. However, according to her father's will, she is engaged, but Martin's friends manage to ridicule Ursula's fiancé on the edge of a mystery play on the market square.
Martin gets caught in a heavy thunderstorm and, full of fear, vows to become a monk. He turns away from his previous life and, despite Jorg's objections and against his father's protests, asks to be admitted to the monastery. Martin learns of the machinations of Pope Leo and experiences the sell-off of his ideals by the indulgence dealer Tetzel. In Martin the decision to rebellion matures. With the posting of theses in Wittenberg, he challenges Rome.
Thanks to the support of the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise, he survived the summons to the Worms Reichstag and the condemnation by the Pope and Emperor. His criticism has become a general political issue. Again and again plagued by doubts - in the form of Jorgs - he continues on his way, but also has to experience how alleged followers abuse his ideas and call for violence.
Karlstadt's sermons, and especially Thomas Müntzer's, conjure up the peasant war. Martin experienced the effects of the war with horror when he met an abused nun - Ursula? - encountered.
With the defeat of the peasants and the death of Müntzer, the war is over for the time being. Nobody can yet foresee which path Martin's ideas will take.
orchestra
The following instruments play in the orchestra:
- Woodwinds : two flutes (including piccolo ), two oboes (also cor anglais ), three clarinets (also saxophone and bass clarinet ), two bassoons
- Brass : three horns , two trumpets , two trombones , tuba
- Timpani , drums
- harp
- Keyboard
- two electric guitars, bass guitar
- Strings : violins I and II, viola , cello , double bass
Work history
The composer Gisle Kverndokk had already worked with the author Øystein Wiik on several musical productions . In the run-up to the Luther production, however, there were artistic differences of opinion with the client and the church, which essentially concerned the addition of Luther's fictional childhood love. In order not to have to adhere exactly to Luther's biography, the work was given the anonymized title Martin L.
The world premiere took place on July 5, 2008 in a German-language version of the text by Carola Schiefke and Stephan Kopf as part of the DomStufen Festival of the Erfurt Theater . Philip Tillotson was the musical director; Directed by Matthias Davids ; the choreography came from Kurt Schrepfer and the equipment from Knut Hetzer. It sang u. a. Yngve Gasoy-Romdal (Martin), Carsten Lepper (Jörg), Petra Madita Kübitz (Ursula), Fernand Delosch (Bunz / Tetzel), Frank-Josef Winkels (Steffen / Karlstadt), Ma'té Sólvom-Nagy (Caspar / Melanchthon) , Axel Meinhardt (Hans Luther / Friedrich the Wise), Michael Tews (Staupitz / von der Ecken), Charlie Serrano (Leo X.), Frank Logemann (Georg / Spalatin), Matthias Sanders (Thomas Müntzer).
The musical was nominated for the 2008 Nordic Council Music Prize, which it did not receive.
From 2009 the musical under the title Martin L. - The Luther Musical was produced by the theater " Die Katakombe " in Frankfurt am Main and supported by the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau . Except in Frankfurt there were guest performances a. a in Celle, Wittenberg, Halle, Kassel, Gießen, Fulda, Bingen, Dinkelsbühl and Bad Kissingen.
literature
- Program booklet Martin L. - The Musical. DomStufen Festival in Erfurt 2008
Web links
- Musical Martin L. in Erfurt. Review and synopsis at Musical-World
- Martin L. - The Luther Musical at the Catacomb
- Evangelical Church Internal (PDF), p. 5
Individual evidence
- ^ Work information from the Felix Bloch Erben publishing house , accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ a b Musical Martin L. in Erfurt. Review and table of contents at Musical-World , accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ Martin L. - The Luther Musical at the Catacomb , accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ Martin L. - The Musical (premiere July 5, 2008) at the Erfurt Theater ( Memento from April 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Martin L. - The Luther Musical at Kulturfreak.de ( Memento from December 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ Nominations 2008 on norden.org ( memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ Prize winner 2008 on norden.org ( memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 26, 2016.
- ↑ MARTIN L. - The Luther Musical on Geistreich.de , accessed on March 26, 2016.