Our republic
Our Republic , subtitled “A German Singspiel in Four Acts”, is a 1980 theater review about the Federal Republic of Germany by Uwe Jens Jensen and Hansgeorg Koch .
The play was premiered on September 20, 1980 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum as a cultural contribution to the 1980 federal election .
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The play is divided into four acts, each of which thematically deal with a decade of Federal Republican history up to its premiere in 1980. For example, the third act deals with the 1960s in all of the facets that were important for the advancement of the FRG: “Our friends, the Greeks, the Yugoslavs, the Spaniards, the Turks, the Italians and the Portuguese” - the express train becomes the slave ship of modern times, which is illustrated by the poets' hit texts and original documents. The German student movement of the 1960s is also being negotiated extensively .
Reviews
Benjamin Henrichs of Die Zeit wrote in 1980 about the play: “In this toxic, mean election campaign in 1980 something good happened after all: A provincial theater, the Schauspielhaus in Bochum, has the provincial goings-on of our leading state actors (and opposition Actor) from the cosmopolitan city of Bonn thoroughly embarrassed - with an election campaign event that is aggressive, but never vulgar, partisan but never fanatical. While our politicians are behaving more and more like bad actors (to the detriment of the theater and politics), the Bochum actors have made good politics - the spectacle 'Peymann stops Strauss', which is also imaginable, does not take place (including the award ceremony), no self-celebration theatrical left, but also a thoughtful, also melancholy evening (...). "
Individual evidence
- ^ Benjamin Henrichs: Bochum is better than Bonn . In: The time . No. 40/1980 ( online ).
- ↑ Review of the premiere ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Theo Girshausen for the Stuttgarter Zeitung
