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05/07/10
“Lola” as a 1990s Petty Bourgeois Tragedy
Premiere on May 14 at Potsdam’s Hans Otto Theater
There were very few stage adaptations of Lola after the 1999 premiere under Armin Petra’s direction at the Theater Nordhausen. Starting on May 14, 2010, the second part of Fassbinder’s BRD-Trilogy – the movie featured Barbara Sukowa as Lola, Armin Müller-Stahl as Bohm, the head of the Municipal Building Administration, and Mario Adorf as the building tycoon Schuckert – can be experienced at the Hans Otto Theater. Bruno Cathomas’ first stage direction at Potsdam, this adaptation will offer an exciting historic transfer: The action is moved form the 1950s in the West to the 1990s in East Germany.
As introduced in the press release: “Lola, based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film and the script by Peter Märthesheimer and Pea Fröhlich, relates the archetypical story of an honorable citizen, who, thanks to his love to a whore, is dragged into the mud of the demimonde. After the fundamental historic breaks following the German reunification, the policy makers in a provincial East German town have once more come to terms with each another. Disguised as good behavior and the determination to make progress, fraudulous business is being conducted. Although Bohm, head of the Municipal Building Administration, only recently started his job, he sees through the scam immediately. But as he falls in love with the whore Lola and is thereby increasingly pressured, his belief in morality and integrity begin to dwindle more and more.”
Lola in the 2010 season at the Hans Otto Theater:
- May 14, 2010 at 7.30PM Premiere
- May 15, 2010 at 7.30PM
- May 23, 2010 at 7.30PM
- May 28, 2010 at 7.30PM
- June 06, 2010 at 3.00PM
- June 12, 2010 at 7.30PM
- July 02, 2010 at 7.30PM
Photographs: © HL Böhme
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