Bad Kötzting Forest Festival
The Waldfestspiele in Bad Kötzting is a festival that has been performing classics of world literature in Bavarian since 1989 . By 2018, this concept had reached almost 150,000 viewers.
history
The open-air theater at Bad Kötztinger Ludwigsberg has its roots in the depiction of the “Pentecost of Honor” after Eugen Hubrich, in which the Kötztinger citizens told the visitors of the city the story of the Pentecost over the centuries. Today the street theater " Pfingstlspiel " by Johannes Reitmeier (director of the Tyrolean State Theater Innsbruck since 2012 ) is performed in Bad Kötzting every year at Whitsun . In 1988 Thomas Stammberger (since 2012 responsible editor at Bavarian TV for popular theater formats such as Komödienstadel and various series) initiated the establishment of the Festspielgemeinschaft Kötzting eV association and founded the Bad Kötzting Forest Festival together with a group of players in the summer of '88. As the elected director and co-author, Stammberger and Reitmeier created the Bavarian versions of Die Räuber , Die lustigen Weiber , Woyzeck and Lysistrata - Der Weiberstreik in addition to Der Faust . In the same year Johannes Reitmeier brought Oskar Weber's “Bavarian Jedermann” to Hugo von Hofmannsthal's stage on Ludwigsberg. For the first time, the "Faust" after Goethe attracted attention in the Bavarian text editing by Thomas Stammberger and Johannes Reitmeier. The media response was so great that this production was recorded in full for Bavarian television in 1992.
Festival
Under the motto of the Bad Kötzting Forest Festival, "Amateur theater under professional direction and staging", Johannes Reitmeier and the now more than 250 members of the festival community bring a classic in Bavarian to the Waldbühne on Ludwigsberg near Bad Kötzting every year in the summer months of July and August . The translations into Bavarian dialect were written by Johannes Reitmeier, Thomas Stammberger and, more recently, partly by Barbara Kerscher. In addition, the Bad Kötzting Forest Festival was repeatedly supported by Roger Boggasch in the disciplines of composition and dialogue direction.
Productions
- 1988–1989: The Bavarian Jedermann (Oskar Weber based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
- 1990–1992: Faust (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- 1992–1993: The Robbers (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier after Friedrich Schiller)
- 1994–1995: The Merry Women (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier based on William Shakespeare)
- 1996–1997: Woyzeck (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier after Georg Büchner)
- 1998–1999: The Bavarian Jedermann (Oskar Weber based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
- 2000–2002: Lysistrata in Bavaria - The women’s strike (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier after Aristophanes)
- 2003–2005: Macbeth (Johannes Reitmeier based on William Shakespeare)
- 2006–2007: Faust (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- 2008–2010: The Beggar Opera (Johannes Reitmeier based on John Gay)
- 2011–2011: The Bavarian Everyman (Oskar Weber based on Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
- 2012–2012: The House of Bernarda (Johannes Reitmeier / Barbara Kerscher based on Federico García Lorca)
- 2013–2014: Schinderhannes (Johannes Reitmeier / Barbara Kerscher based on Carl Zuckmayer)
- 2015-2017: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Johannes Reitmeier / Barbara Kerscher based on William Shakespeare)
- 2018–2019 The Women's Strike (Thomas Stammberger / Johannes Reitmeier based on Aristophane's most famous comedy "Lysistrata")
Individual evidence
- ↑ Festival - Bad Kötzting Kneipp spa. In: Website of the city of Bad Kötzting. Retrieved April 8, 2013 .