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04/14/08
German stage adaptations of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films
In a Year with 13 Moons in Hamburg and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul in Magdeburg
The year after the 25th anniversary of Fassbinder’s death has seen an increasing number of stage adaptations of his films. These theatrical interpretations provide a contemporary take on these works, but also nod towards the original screen version. The Hamburg Schauspielhaus has undertaken to perform In a Year with Thirteen Moons. Not only is this Fassbinder’s most emphatically personal work, it is also his most orchestrated in terms of film language. Director Andreas Bode, who has made a name for himself for his Kampnagel productions, has secured actor Jürgen Uter for the role of Erwin/Elvira; Jana Schulz plays tart-with-a-heart Zora, and Marlen Dieckhof Erwin’s wife. Critical response to the play was overwhelmingly positive following its premiere in the theatre’s Malersaal on 20 March. The production also gave rise to new interpretations of the eponymous lunar phenomenon. One such reading was that of astrologist Roswitha Broszath who, in her article in the accompanying programme, cites 2008 as being a year with “thirteen dark moons … “
Based on Fassbinder’s own notes on the film’s dialogue, the current stage adaptation represents the successful continuation, three decades after the work’s inception, of Fassbinder’s conscious bid to merge theatre and film and examine the interplay between these two media (see: Klaus Ulrich Militz: Personal Experience and the Media, Frankfurt, 2006).
Further performances will be held at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus on 26 April at 8 p.m. & 27 April at 6 p.m.
For more information about this production please go to:
http://www.schauspielhaus.de/spielplan/detail.php?id_event_date=3449993
To read what the press has to say about this Hamburg production please go to:
http://www.nachtkritik.de
The photograph on the left shows Marlen Diekhoff and Jürgen Uter, © A.T. Schaefer, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2008
The photograph on the right shows Marlen Diekhoff, Monique Schwitter, Lukas Holzhausen, Lutz Salzmann and Jürgen Uter, © A.T. Schaefer, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, 2008
A stage version of Fassbinder’s film Ali: Fear Eats the Soul was premiered in 1995 at the Theater am Halleschen Ufer in Berlin. It is currently being performed at the Studiobühne at the Magdeburg Schauspielhaus. Lukas Langhoff directs. There will be further performances on 29 April as well as on 3 and 17 May, 2008. All performances begin at 7.30 p.m.
For more details about this production please visit:
http://www.theater-magdeburg.de
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