Ulli Lommel at Berlin’s Volksbühne
“Fucking Liberty” opens on January 17 in the main auditorium
Ladies & Gentlemen! … A vaudeville show! Duck shooting in America! A world in 3D! With film, live music, quotations, icons of popular culture and a puppet show!!! A trip to the Planet of the Apes and back again, going way back to Nazi Germany, and then landing with the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico. 3D glasses will be handed out.”
Ulli Lommel introduces this fast-moving evening in the theater like a carnival barker, launching his audience into the midst of a program that covers significant parts of his kaleidoscopic life. The actor, director, scriptwriter and producer first took to the stage at the age of four with the famous Lommel Circus. Lommel was fourteen when he saw his father, Ludwig Manfred Lommel, a well-known radio comedian during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, for the last time.
Following his years of intensive work with Fassbinder, Lommel moved to America in 1977. There he met Andy Warhol, with whom he made two films. Following the success of his film THE BOOGEYMAN (1980), Lommel remained in the USA, where he has produced over forty other films, mostly in the horror and B movie genres. During the long career he embarked on in 1963, Lommel has worked with many stars, including Orson Welles, Heinz Rühmann, Anna Karina, Maria Schell, Hildegard Knef, Elvis Presley, Eddie Constantin, Curd Jürgens, Richard Hell, Carole Bouquet and Jack Palance. “Fucking Liberty” sees him reunite with Volksbühne veteran Volker Spengler.
Lommel’s conclusion: “Freedom is the space the takes shape in your mind, your heart and your soul. The rest is ‘Fucking Liberty.’”
More information:
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Tel.: +49 (0)30 240 65 777
Further performances:
• January 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
• January 23, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
• January 31, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
• February 6, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
• February 9, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
• February 16, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Photos: © Volksbühne Berlin