Theatre and the arts
2017 Rehearsals forMalalai – die afghanische Jungfrau von Orléans (Malalai – the Afghan Virgin of Orléans) after Friedrich Schiller, a transnational theatre project by Robert Schuster and Julie Paucker. Premiere: Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (DNT), Kunstfest Weimar. Further performance: Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
Director: Robert Schuster, Text and dramaturgy: Julie Paucker, Choreography: Martin Gruber, Stage and costumes: Eva-Maria van Acker.
Performers: Hadar Dimand, Thais Lamothe, Céline Martin-Sisteron, Gulab Jan Bamik, Said Edris Fakhri, Ahmad Nasir Formuli, Markus Horn, Abdul Mahfoz Nejrabi, Sulaiman Sohrab Salem, Jonas Schlagowsky, Romaric Séguin, Homan Wesa.
A production byDeutsches Nationaltheater Weimar DNT, Kunstfest Weimar, the KULA Compagnie and Azdar Theatre (AFG) (Afghanistan) with the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Theater Chur (Switzerland). Supported by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes in the project “Transit Europa”, the Institut francais, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (DGCA), the Jeune Théatre National and the DNT.
2017 Rehearsals for 500 Meters: Kafka, Great Wall, Unreal World, Premiere Theater der Welt 2017, Hamburg. Further performances Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Stary Theatr, Krakow (Polen) amongst others.
Concept: Tian Gebing, Christoph Lepschy, Director: Tian Gebing, Dramaturgy: Christoph Lepschy, Stage design: Eva Veronica Born, Choreography/Costumes: Wang Yanan, Music: Piotr Kurek. Performers: Li Bin, Szymon Czacki, Lian Guodong, Peng Yi’ou, Liu Chao, Manel Salas Palau, Lisa Tschanz, Liu Xiangjie, Lei Yan, Wang Yanan, Xu Yiming, Grzegorz Hardej, Tian Yuanshang.
A production of the Paper Tiger Theater Studio, Beijing, with the co-producers Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Festival Theater der Welt, Goethe-Institut, Internationaler Koproduktionsfonds, Stary Teatr, Krakow.Supported by Goethe-Institut China, Shenzhen Ming Culture Communication Co. LTD, Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai, Mingyuan Group, Adam Mickiewicz Institute.
2016 Rehearsals for Kula – Nach Europa. Transnationales Theaterprojekt(Kula – To Europe. Transnational theatre project). Premiere: Deutsches Nationaltheaters Weimar DNT), Kunstfest Weimar. Further performances Theater Freiburg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Kurtheater Baden, La Filature – Scène Nationale, Mulhouse (France), Theater Chur (Switzerland).
Director: Robert Schuster, Text and Dramaturgy: Julie Paucker, Choreografer: Martin Gruber, Stage design and Costumes: Eva-Maria van Acker, Performers: Matthias Breitenbach , Ahmad Nasir Formuli, Matthias Hejna, Thaïs Lamothe, Céline Martin-Sisteron, Stefanie Mrachacz, Alexandre Ruby, Jonas Schlagowsky, Romaric Séguin, Elke Wieditt?.
A production of the Deutschen Nationaltheaters Weimar (DNT) and the Kunstfest Weimar in cooperation with the Theater Freiburg and Azdar Theatre (AFG). Co-production with La Filature – Scène Nationale, Mulhouse, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Kurtheater Baden and Theater Chur.A cooperation with the Goethe-Institut. Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Jeune Théâtre National (JTN), Freundeskreis des DNT (Friends of the DNT), Flemish Government und Institut Français Erfurt.
2014 Shooting and Video for Lavapolis/Friday in Venice (Michael Schindhelm), Transmedia Storytelling Project for the Architecture Biennale of Venice, Video: Robert Schuster. Project to be read in: Lavapolis/Friday in Venice, ed. by Michael Schindhelm, ZHDK Zurich University of the Arts Center for Cultural Publishing Studies: Zurich/Switzerland, 2015,based on the book Michael Schindhelm: Lavapolis, Matthes und Seitz: Berlin 2014.
2013 Rehearsals for Dante, Tod und Teufel, based on the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Street theatre in the Tucherschloss Nuremberg on the festival Blaue Nacht: A tribute to the artist Manfred Dinnes and his exhibition of Daidalos: Skulpturen und Bildwerke. Eine Retrospektive (A Retrospective). Information and video. Informationen und Video.
Director and text version: Susanne Gösse-Gruber. Costumes: Irene Hartmann, Light and sound engineering: Lighttone.de
Performers: Sigrid Maria Schnückel, Thorsten Krohn, Raffael Mayer, Jannis Spengler, Charlotte Ullrich, Eva-Maria Viertbauer
Organization: Museum Tucherschloss Nuremberg (Ulrike Berninger), PSG Kunstevent München (Sybille Gruber). Supported by the Staedtler Stiftung, Glorope, Lighttone.de. Fotos c Dr. Florian Baumgartner, Graz, Austria.
2010 Beau Désordre, Marianne Cornil sings her own chansons and accompanies herself on the accordion.
2008 Rehearsals for Sakkorausch by Elisabeth Reichart. Premiere: Schauspielhaus Salzburg, Austria. Further performances: Kleines Theater Linz, Kornspeicher Wels, Theatertage Weißenbach(Österreich).
Director: Martin Gruber, played by Eva-Maria Viertbauer.
2005 An episode of theBullen von Tölz is filmed in Birach.
2005 Performance Die “andere” Heilige Nacht, in the Stadl Birach, directed by Jörn van Dyck, played and sung by Bettina Mittendorfer.
2004 Rehearsals for Dialoge über die Liebe. Eine Straßenoper (Dialogues about Love. A Street Opera) after Claudio Monteverdi and Georg Philipp Telemann, Festival Hue (Vietnam). Further performances: Goethe-Institut Hanoi (Vietnam), Festspielnacht der (Festival Night of the) Münchener Opernfestspiele.
Direction and choreography: Martin Gruber, dramaturgy and text: Susanne Gösse, costumes: Werkmeister, stage technique: Torsten Hauer.
Performers in Hue: Singing: Monika Lichtenberger and Beate von Hahn, acting: Quoc Truong, accordion:Maria Reiter, choreography ballet:Cao Chi Hai, dance: Nguyen Chi Hier, Neo The Bach Mai.
Performers in Hanoi: singing: Beate von Hahn and Lauren Francis, accordion: Stefanie Schumacher.
Performers in Munich: singing: Beate von Hahn and Monika Lichtenegger, accordion: Maria Reiter, acting: Jannis Spengler.
Solo for accordion composed by Rudi Spring: Etude pour un Coeur en Confusion, op. 59a Nr. 1, 1994. Television documentary about the project on Vietnamese television “The Linking between Asia and Europe” on VTV 3.
A cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Hanoi and the Leibniz-Gesellschaft für kulturellen Austausch (Leibniz Society for Cultural Exchange). Supported by the Kulturfonds Bayern (Bavarian Cultural Fund), the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, the W. P. Schmitz-Foundation, der Hypo-Vereinsbank Munich, Vietnam Airlines and others.
2003 Performance of Die Pfarrhauskomödie by Heinrich Lautensack, in the Stadl Birach.
Director: Jörn van Dyck, performers: Bettina Mittendorfer, Barbara Dorsch, Norbert Entfellner.
2002 Performance Der Traum der Lena Christ, in the Stadl Birach, adaptation and direction: Jörn van Dyck, played by Bettina Mittendorfer .
1997 Rehearsals for the international theatre projectBeijing lan – Peking is blue, premiered in Beijing (PR China), Directors: Martin Gruber and Tian Gebing, idea and concept: Martin Gruber and Rainer Strecke, Dramaturgie: Susanne Göße, dramaturgy: Susanne Göße, stage design: Xiao Ming, costume: Irene Hartmann, music: Rainer Kühn.
Performers: Diao Haiming, Viktoria Hauke, Li bin, Liu Dan, Ma Xiao Yong, Andrea Reiners, Rainer Strecke, Tian Gebing. Supported by the Goethe-Institut Beijing.
1993 Pre-premiere Autistenhochzeit, in the Stadl Birach, premiere in the Gasteig Munich.
Director: Martin Gruber, Costume: Irene Hartmann, Text: Alexander Wagner. Performers: Mikaela Czich and Alexander Wagner.
1993 the ZeltEnsembleTheatertakes leave of Birach with a big celebration and moves to Tübingen to the Zimmertheater, where Otto Kukla and Crescentia Dünßer take over the artistic direction.
1992
Premiere Hamlet. Neunzig blutig witzige Minuten (Hamlet. Ninety bloody funny minutes) Solo by Rafael Mayer, idea and concept: Rafael Mayer, director and costume: Irene Hartmann, stage design: Burkhard Kissenkötter, music: Cornelius Schwer. Hamlet toured nationwide and in Austria from 1992-1996.
1992 rehearsals for Autistenhochzeitof the theater group Fisch & Lamas.
The following productions of the ZeltEnsembleTheater in Birach went on tour, further performances in Salzburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Klagenfurt, Cologne, Hamburg, Bochum, Berlin, Mülheim, Linz, Zurich and others.
1991 Premiere Zur schönen Aussicht by Ödön von Horváth, in the Stadl Birach.
Production: Crescentia Dünßer, stage design and costume: Irene Hartmann. Performers: Monika Fischer, Anne Levin, Michael Sattler, Alexander Wagner, Ulrich Walljasper, Peter Schwietzke, Otto Kukla. A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater.
1991 Der Untergang der Titanic (The sinking of the Titanic) by H. M. Enzensberger. A musical reading. A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater.
1990 pre-premiere Armut, Reichtum, Mensch und Tier (Poverty, Wealth, Man and Animal ) by Hans Henny Jahnn, in the Stadl Birach.
Idea and concept: Crescentia Dünßer, director: the ensemble, co-director: Ursula Karusseit, costumes: Irene Hartmann, music: Stefan Huber.
Performers: Otto Kukla, Crescentia Dünßer, Ulrike Schlue, Michael Sattler, Alexander Wagner, Ulrich Walljasper.
A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater with OFF TAT Frankfurt. The ZeltEnsembleTheater plays a special performance for the 1200-year anniversary of Niederbergkirchen.
1990 performance Die Zukunft war früher auch besser (The future used to be better too). Karl-Valentin-Evening. Solo by Rafael Mayer. Director and costume: Irene Hartmann, premiere 1989 in Bochum Bahnhof Langendreer, this Karl Valentin evening toured 1989-1999 nationwide and in Austria.
1990 Die Geschichte vom Baum (The story of the tree) by Ingegerd Montan.A children’s play. Costume: Irene Hartmann. Performers: Alexander Wagner, Ulrich Walljasper, Otto Kukla. A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater.
1988 Premiere Ulenspiegel after Charles de Coster, in the theatre tent, Birach.
Text: Robin Detje, director: the ensemble, co-director: Helga Beyer, artistic consultant: Günter Ballhausen, costumes: Irene Hartmann, music: Stefan Sieben, puppets: Michael and Marieluise Kastner.
Performers: Otto Kukla, Jutta Masurath, Crescentia Dünßer, Waldemar Kobus, Jean Francois Le Moign, Heinke Hartmann, Rafael Mayer, Robin Detje. A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater.
1987 Premiere Figaro & Co after Beaumarchais, Da Ponte, Mozart and Ödön von Horváth,in the theatre tent, Birach.
Director: Robert Giggenbach and the ensemble, music+composition: Eckhard Koltermann, Dieter Kühr, clarinet quartet CL-4, Manfred Schulze, costumes: Irene Hartmann. Performers: Ulrich Noethen, Crescentia Dünßer, Otto Kukla, Heinke Hartmann, Alexander Lutz, Nina Schühly. A production of the ZeltEnsembleTheater.