Welcome to Hell (Musical)
| Musical dates | |
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| Title: | Welcome to Hell |
| Original language: | German |
| Music: | Peter Michael von der Nahmer |
| Lyrics: | Peter Lund |
| Premiere: | 15th March 2018 |
| Place of premiere: | Neukölln Opera Berlin |
| Playing time: | approx. 85 minutes |
| Place and time of the action: | Hamburg , at the time of the G-20 summit in summer 2017 |
Welcome to Hell is a musical by Peter Lund (text) and Peter Michael von der Nahmer (music), which will be released on March 15, 2018 as a co-production with the third year of the musical / show course at the Berlin University of the Arts at the Neukölln Opera premiered in Berlin.
content
Hamburg in the summer of 2017. The upcoming G20 summit is preoccupying the minds of the most varied of characters in a wide variety of ways. Sabine, a blogger who never leaves her apartment, senses a conspiracy in the fact that this event is being held in Germany's second largest city, of all places. Her ex-girlfriend Kata, who accompanied the event for a private broadcaster, is annoyed by the condescending behavior of summit participants like the French speaker Henry, who lives out his homosexuality with the Spanish hustler Jesus behind the chauvinistic facade and, contrary to expectations, his heart on him loses. The convinced leftists Andi and his girlfriend Frieda are looking forward to being able to show their views of the world in a publicly effective way. The convinced pacifist Frieda has no inkling that the spoiled affluent child Andi considers violence to be a legitimate means. The cashier Krissi, on the other hand, has real worries, who, of all things, has the late shift in her shop on the hot days of the summit and fears rioting. Policeman Stefan, who has not been the same since he got a bottle on his head during a demonstration, is also afraid of them. True to principles as he is, he does not want to go on sick leave - as his girlfriend, the medical student Lily recommends - even if he has not understood the political background of the summit for a long time. This doesn't even interest the young Mina from Husum - she just wants to have a party and travels with mom's car and is impressed by pimp Ricky, who pretends to be a photographer.
A dance demo in which you want to promote a better world in a peaceful and exuberant way gets completely out of hand. Frieda, Sabine, Kata, Mina, Krissi, Liliy and their strict Catholic friend Friedrich hide in Krissi's supermarket. The shop is devastated by rioters and the random community ends up closed at the police station, where Stefan grievously reproaches his girlfriend for not staying away from the demonstration as he expected. Nevertheless, he gives her his key card, with which Lily enables the other inmates to escape. Their relationship fails, as does that of Andi and Frieda, because Frieda notices that Andi has obtained a pistol and used it against the policeman Stefan. The riots continue. Kata saves Mina from the clutches of the pimp Ricky, the French speaker confesses his love for Jesus - and that he as a representative of the western world is just as ruthless and selfish as it is. The people for whom the summit broke much more than just a couple of discs, come to the end, there is only one thing that can help if you want to save this world from the abyss: "Give something!"
production
The title of the musical, "Welcome to Hell", is reminiscent of the protest of the same name on the eve of the G20 summit in Hamburg in the summer of 2017 , when the police and demonstrators clashed for the first time and there were street battles, especially in the Schanzenviertel. First radical left-wing demonstrators attacked the police and then devastated entire streets.
Peter Lund, the author of the play and professor at the Berlin University of the Arts, said: "Because after Brexit and Trump's election victory we had the feeling that the world was falling into pieces, we wanted to deal with the topic of" borders " The students initially developed twelve characters that cross borders or preserve borders. Because G20 was so media present last summer, the idea arose to embed these psychograms in the summit. Lund had the idea together with the composer Peter Michael von der Nahmer . Also The American had heard of the riots in Hamburg. At the beginning of the project, Lund and the students on the “Musical” course had the feeling that the “world was falling apart.” The characters were made up of eight different actors together with the student actors Nations developed and the summit provides the backdrop against which the great conflicts of the world take place twelve different figures who approach the subject from different perspectives, such as a precarious supermarket cashier, a divided reporter and a French civil servant, even if these are sometimes only marginally related to the summit. The summit, in turn, provides the backdrop against which the great conflicts of the world take place, according to Lund. The paths of all the characters cross on the days of the summit at the latest, in the Sternschanze, on St. Pauli, in the Davidwache. The summit happening also serves as a projection screen for personal turmoil and interpersonal conflicts, but also as an exaggerated picture of the social status quo: "The cashier in the supermarket really plagues different problems than the punk financed by his parents who wants to save the world. The committed journalist goes after the supposed photographer who wants to tow the naive young Asian woman from Husum for good reason. Her former student colleague and lover dives into the internet with trauma and conspiracy theories, with the thought that the world will end when she leaves the apartment. "
For the framework story, those involved had thoroughly researched and read many media reports. Lund said that criticism of Hamburg as a venue, of the police's security strategy and of the prohibitions on demonstrations can be found in the characters' dialogues, and that it was important to them to make the motives and fears of all those involved tangible and understandable, and thus empathy to develop for the other side. In Lund's view, theater achieves this effect rather than political analysis.
premiere
The musical premiered on March 15, 2018 at the Neukölln Opera.
Ensemble of the first season
- March 15 to April 2018 in Berlin
occupation
- Director: Peter Lund
- Musical direction / rehearsal: Hans-Peter Kirchberg, Tobias Bartholmeß - with 7 live band
- Choreography: Neva Howard
- Set designer: Zoe Agathos
- Production management & assistant director: Sandra M. Heinzelmann
actor
- Alexander Auler: Stefan
- Katia Scheherazade Bischoff / Sophia Euskirchen: Lily
- Didier Borel: Ricky
- Nikko Andres Forteza trunk: Friedrich
- Tae-Eun Hyun: Mina
- Mira Keller: Sabine
- Pablo Martinez: Jeus
- Lucille-Mareen Mayr: Frieda
- Mathias Mihai Reiser: Andi
- Loïc Damien Schlentz: Henry
- Anastasia Troska: Katja
- Andrea Wesenberg: Krissy
Press reviews
Volkan Agar from the taz explains that the summit happening serves as a projection surface for personal turmoil and interpersonal conflicts, but also as an exaggerated picture of the social status quo: "It is the characters in between that appear more interesting, more authentic and more realistic you can feel the days of the G20 summit or just every day of isolation in the late capitalist achievement society. " Agar sums up, Welcome to Hell is a musical, like GZSZ, just in a political way: "A little heartache, a little Weltschmerz, a little song and dance."
Gunda Bartels from Tagesspiegel thinks that the Welcome to Hell with its different homosexual and heterosexual pairings, especially in the first half, despite the Gripstheater appeal, is more of an emancipation than a class struggle musical: "The overloaded type and motive potpourri is missing Concentration. When Lily, the medical student, introduces herself as the daughter of a Syrian woman, one immediately thinks that now there is only one Greek trans woman missing on burning barricades. "
Ralf Dorschel from the Hamburger Morgenpost thinks that with a lot of catchy tunes and a snappy choreography, the makers manage the balancing act: "A musical with heart and pain, clever running gags and tough puns - and with a brilliant team of young actors, some of whom still do that Learn craft that he is already presenting in such an outstanding way here. " Dorschel sums it up: "Anyone who wants to know how a young and highly talented troupe makes perpetrators and victims dance is at the right place with" Welcome to Hell ". We Hamburg have the investigative committees. The Berliners have a musical. This is probably the smarter way to come to terms with it. She's definitely funnier. "
Awards
German Musical Theater Prize 2018
- Award in the Best Book category (Peter Lund)
- Nomination in the category Best Director (Peter Lund)
Web links
- Welcome to Hell on Youtube (Video)
- Welcome to hell in the program of the Neukölln Opera
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/g20/-welcome-to-hell--g20-gipfel-wird-als-musical-aufgefuierter-29860354
- ↑ https://www.epochtimes.de/politik/deutschland/linksextreme-welcome-to-hell-demo-als-musical-an-der-neukoellner-oper-in-berlin-a2374901.html
- ↑ a b c Mark Spörrle: “Welcome to Hell” in the opera: “If a shot had been fired…” In: Zeit Online, March 14, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendung/kultur/201803/219266.html ( 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.
- ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/-welcome-to-hell--musical-g20-gipfel-kom-nach-neukoelln-29863564
- ↑ David Schwarz: "Welcome to Hell": G-20 riots come on stage as a musical. In: welt.de . March 13, 2018, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.inforadio.de/programm/schema/sendung/kultur/201803/219266.html ( 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.
- ↑ https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/-welcome-to-hell--musical-g20-gipfel-kom-nach-neukoelln-29863564
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/G20-Musical-in-der-Neukoellner-Oper/!5489242/
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5489242/
- ↑ Lucía Tirado: Ritt über Bodensee: The Neukölln Opera brought out the world premiere "Welcome to Hell" In: Neues Deutschland, March 19, 2018.
- ↑ https://noizz.de/entertainment/die-g20-krawalle-ektiven-es-jetzt-als-musical/56geg69
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/G20-Musical-in-der-Neukoellner-Oper/!5489242/
- ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/peter-lund-an-der-neukoellner-oper-schuesse-in-der-schanze/21081954.html
- ↑ https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/g20/welcome-to-hell-so-gut-ist-das-g20-musical-29881624
- ↑ https://www.deutschemusicalakademie.de/deutscher-musical-theater-preis/deutscher-musical-theater-preis-2018/
