Based on the novel by Ernst Toller
A work for actors and puppets
Ernst Toller and his generation are robbed of their youth by the First World War. Furious and with desperate courage, they try in 1918 and 1919 to give a devastated country a political and human perspective. In Munich in 1919 a soviet republic system of government consisting of workers’ councils is formed. The assembly of 50,000 people secured democratic rights in public, and formulated what had previously never been considered. But the temptations of totalitarianism are too large. What’s new dies. The production inspects the messages in bottles of an outrageous past.
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
Photo: Francesco Giordano
- With André Benndorff, Sebastian Brandes, Julia Gräfner, Walter Hess, Gro Swantje Kohlhof, Bekim Latifi, Michael Pietsch, Leoni Schulz, Martin Weigel
- Directed by Jan-Christoph Gockel
- Stage design Julia Kurzweg
- Costume Amit Epstein
- Music Anton Berman
- Light design Christian Schweig
- Puppet-making Michael Pietsch
- Dramaturgy Viola Hasselberg
- Surtitles Yvonne Griesel (SPRACHSPIEL)
- Assistant Director Ayşe Güvendiren
- Stage design assistant Hannah Wolf
- Dramaturgy assistant Paulina Wawerla
- Costume assistant Melina Poppe
- Stage-management Stefanie Rendtorff
- Prompting Jutta Ina Masurath
- Artistic production management Victoria Fischer
- Collaboration Puppet Painting Erik Raskopf
- Direction trainee Louisa von Sohlern, Felicitas Friedrich
- Video and Live video Lion Bischof
- Stage machinery Florian Obermeier
- Theatre Sculpture Maximilian Biek
- Technical production management Jonas Pim Simon
- Stage manager Trevor Nelthorpe
- Lighting Michael Barth, Tankred Friedrich, Weronika Patan, Katrin Langner
- Props Manager Robert Herrmann, Heidemarie Sänger, Dagmar Nachtmann
- Stage machinery Daniel Capellino
- Video Ikenna David Okegwo, Dirk Windloff
- Sound Katharina Widmaier-Zorn, Anthony Hughes
- Makeup artist Paula Bitaroczky, Sylvia Janka, Sofie Reindl-Grüger, Raimund Richar-Vetter
- Costume Marija Ružić, Teresa Winkelmann, Bernd Canavan, Petra Dziak
- Carpentry Erik Clauß, Susanne Dölger, Stefan Klodt-Bussmann, Michael Buhl, Hannes Zippert, Wolfgang Mechmann, Josef Friesl, Josef Piechatzek, Franz Wallner, Sebastian Nebe, Clemens Künneth
- Metalworker Friedrich Würzhuber, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Stephan Weber
- Upholstery Tobias Herzog, Michaela Brock
- Painting hall Evi Eschenbach, Jeanette Raue, Ingrid Weindl, Frederic Sontag
- Theatre Sculpture Gabriele Obermaier
- Surtitles Anna Raisich, Fernanda von Sachsen Gessaphe