Zarah 47
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| Title: | Zarah 47 |
| Original title: | Zarah 47 |
| Genus: | Musical theater |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Peter Lund |
| Publishing year: | 1992 |
| Premiere: | April 1992 |
| Place of premiere: | Greifswald Theater |
| Place and time of the action: | 1947, with retrospectives |
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Zarah 47 (or also: Do you want the total song, You're addicted to me, Zarah forty-seven ) is a play by Peter Lund with the subtitle Das totale Lied and by the author in the publisher's version with the additional line Musical Solo for an actress was provided. It was premiered in 1992 by Margarete Steinhäuser in the Greifswald Theater (director: the author) and has since been performed throughout Germany. The performance rights are held by LITAG Verlag .
prehistory
When the Swedish singer Zarah Leander was brought to Vienna by Max Hansen in 1936 to take on the leading female role in the operetta Axel an der Himmelstür , the red-haired contral-alto has been the undisputed queen of revue stages and record sales in Sweden for six years already two children and a second husband, the son of Stockholm Opera Director Forsell.
When she shoots the film Premiere during the daytime of the Viennese performance series , the recordings end up in the hands of the large production companies and trigger a bidding war. After all, the school-age children in Sweden are the reason to opt out of Hollywood and in favor of the nearby UFA .
For a princely fee, Zarah Leander lets UFA use ten films as a wicked lady with a heart over the next six years. The films are box office hits on the European continent.
Between filming and advertising tours, she always travels back to her home country Sweden, where she bought the Lönö estate south of Stockholm on an island in the archipelago.
When the war took on a threatening dimension with the Russian campaign in 1942 , she decided to end her contract with the UFA as soon as possible and to go back to work in Sweden.
After filming Damals in autumn 1942, she turned down all the scripts offered under pretexts and moved a large part of her furniture to Sweden. When her new Berlin villa was hit by Allied bombers at the beginning of 1943, in the days of the premiere of Back then , she finally returned to Lönö and postponed all negotiations about new films until the UFA's last contractual option in the summer of 1943 was no Result has expired. Now she would be contractually free.
But now the Swedish organizers and journalists are turning against "the Nazi siren " and preventing any involvement. Zarah Leander has no choice but to retire to her manor for four years after the end of the war and take care of agriculture, fishing and the large numbers of refugees who arrive.
action
On her fortieth birthday on March 15, 1947, Zarah Leander sits alone in the living room of her country estate and, after no congratulatory letters but only invoices have arrived, she expects visitors or at least callers for whom she has prepared a small list over the phone. But when nothing happens, she looks back on her life and pours herself forty glasses of schnapps, one for every year.
She remembers the meetings with Joseph Goebbels , Hitler , Detlef Sierck , Carl Froelich and Heinrich George , who appears to her as a ghost, and in the course of the piece finds the opportunity to sing more than a dozen of her songs, partially or completely. At the end there is a redeeming phone call that paves the way for her post-war career.
A small epilogue shows Leander at a later point in her career, where she justifies herself to the press why she appears again and again after farewell tours, even on coffee trips .
The piece has a text portion of about 3/4 of the approximate playing time of about 90 minutes.
List of songs (alphabetical)
- The world won't end of that ( Jary / Balz )
- The wind told me a song ( Brühne / Balz)
- I saw three stars shine ( Mackeben / Brennert )
- A woman only becomes beautiful through love (Mackeben / Gesell )
- I can love someone like you (broth / courtship)
- His name is Waldemar (Jary / Balz)
- I am a woman who knows what she wants ( Straus )
- I have a deep longing for you ( Benatzky )
- I'm standing in the rain (Benatzky)
- I know a miracle will happen one day (Jary / courtship)
- Can love be a sin (booze / courtship)
- Merci mon ami ( Fenyes / Schachner )
- Don't say goodbye to me (Fenyes / Amberg)
- Brave little soldier's wife ( Sträßer )
- Why should a woman not have a relationship? (Straus / Grünwald )
- If God willing (Jary / Schwabach )
- Yes sir (Benatzky)
Famous productions
- KAMA-Theater, Berlin , premiere: January 13, 1993 with Katja Nottke , director: Peter Lund
Last productions in German-speaking countries
- Zarah 47- Das totale Lied , Theater Bilitz Frauenfeld , director: Helmut Vogel, Swiss premiere: May 5, 2006
- Zarah 47 , Wuppertaler Bühnen , Wuppertal , director: Edda Klepp, program 2008/2009
- You're addicted to me - Zarah 47 , Komödie am Park, Herne , director: Gert Kamps, program 2009/2010
- Zarah 47 , Forum Theater Stuttgart , director: Maarten Güppertz, program 2009/2010
- Zarah 47- Das totale Lied , Theater Carambolage Bozen , director: Torsten Schilling, program 2009/2010
- Zarah 47 , Thuringian State Theater Eisenach , director: Gabriel Diaz, season 2009/2010
- Zarah 47- Do you want the total song? , Off-Broadway Musical-Theater Munich, premiere: March 3, 2010, director: Silvia Armbruster, musical director: Wolfgang Hammerschmid
- Zarah Forty -Seven, Theater O-TonArt Berlin, Premiere: March 15, 2010, Director: Alexander Katt, Musical Director: Volker Sondershausen
- Zarah 47 , Kleines Theater Bad Godesberg, Karin Pagmar (Zarah) , program 2012/13
- Zarah 47 , Kulturwerk Theater Eisleben , premiere: October 24, director: Ulrich Fischer, vocals: Annette Baldin (Zarah) , season 2015
Individual evidence
- ^ Die-Zarah-Leander-Biography , in Paul Seiler's Zarah Leander Archive
- ↑ Zarah 47 - Das totale Lied , Theater Bilitz Frauenfeld, director: Helmut Vogel, season 2005/2006
- ↑ Zarah 47 ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wuppertaler Bühnen, director: Edda Klepp, season 2008/2009
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: You're addicted to me - Zarah 47 , Komödie am Park Herne, director: Gert Kamps, season 2009/2010
- ↑ Zarah 47 ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Forum Theater Stuttgart, director: Maarten Güppertz
- ↑ Zarah 47 - Das totale Lied , Theater Carambolage Bozen, director: Torsten Schilling, season 2009/2010
- ^ Zarah 47 , program booklet of the State Theater Eisenach, season 2007/2008
- ↑ Zarah 47 - Do you want the total song? , Off-Broadway Musical-Theater Munich, premiere: March 3, 2010, director: Silvia Armbruster
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Zarah seven and forty , Theater O-TonArt Berlin, premiere: March 15, 2010, director: Alexander Katt
- ↑ General-Anzeiger of December 31, 2012
