Soul lust & eye candy
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| Title: | Soul lust & eye candy. Wagner and Winnetou do each other. Scenes in the salon |
| Genus: | collage |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Traute Schölling, Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge |
| Literary source: | Texts by Richard Wagner and Karl May |
| Publishing year: | 1988 |
| Premiere: | May 28, 1988 |
| Place of premiere: | Dresdner Brettl |
| Director of the premiere | Carsten Ludwig |
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Soul lust & eye candy. Wagner and Winnetou do each other. Scenes in the Salon was the name of a scenic collage that premiered on May 28, 1988 in Dresden and for some time afterwards was part of the repertoire of the “ Dresdner Brettl ”.
It was directed by Carsten Ludwig; the production was done by the Dresden Music Festival with the support of the Dresden State Theater .
content
In the first part of the evening, a plush salon is opened (equipment: Gerhard Schade) to show off 19th century sentimentality. This overture is as amusing as it is astonishing: what starts out as cute and teasing escalates from frivolous to martial. Dramaturgically and dramatically perfect - break.
Then “ Walküre ” first act, the short version, not sung, but spoken - an old hat from the pool of Wagner parodies . The big gag comes in the third act " Siegfried " with Winnetou as the hero, text Karl May . One declaims about the Indian's corpse Ernst von Wildenbruch "fight vertobte poem. On Richard Wagner's Death ”, plus the roaring entry of the gods into Valhalla from the“ Rheingold ”finals. Enough.
evaluation
“This collage, already a showpiece in itself, aims at a core of the 'German' zeitgeist: the world should recover from the Germanic-Christian being. First pose of superiority, then claim to power, in the past strongly fueled by the political and propagandistic abuse of Wagner's and May's work.
Of course, equating an original genius with a trivial genius is also problematic in the intelligent, informative theater evening. But mechanisms are exposed in a striking way, which bring about the transformation of high humanistic demands into inhuman megalomania. The 'higher' tends extremely to usurp first the general right, then the power. Siegfried and Winnetou on the march against the 'inferior'. Certainly simplistic, but not wrong. "
Other contributors
- Singing: Eleonore Elstermann, Peter Küchler, Jürgen Hartfiel, Gunther Emmerlich
- Dancer: Carola Tautz
- Music (trio): Peter Glatte (violin), Johann-Christoph Schulze (cello), Thomas Mahn (grand piano)
Guest performances
On March 1 and 2, 1989, the play performed at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich ; on three weekends (April to June 1989) at the Hebbel Theater in West Berlin (formerly “Theater in Königgrätzer Straße”).
literature
- Reinhard Wengierek: Be a nobleman ahead . In: Wochenpost from April 13, 1990; Reprinted in M-KMG No. 84 ( online version ), p. 65.
source
Entry in the Karl May Wiki