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    Heute_Kohlhaas_1_Foto_Ursula Kaufmann

    © Ursula Kaufmann

    Freely adapted by Claus Overkamp
    from a story by Heinrich von Kleist
    with poems by Erich Mühsam
    Theater Marabu, Bonn

    A coproduction with AGORA, the theatre of the German-language community of Belgium in St. Vith

    Director Claus Overkamp Overall artistic director Kurt Pothen set Claus Overkamp, Céline Leuchter Costumes Emilie Cottam Head of music Gerd Oly Cast Roger Hilgers, Eno Krojanker, Annika Serong, Matthias Weiland, Marie-Joëlle Wolf Rights Theater Marabu, Bonn

    Fri april 26, 4.30 pm
    sat april 27, 12 am & 7 pm

    grips podewil
    75 min ° Age: 15 upwards

    “The show is poetic and political, coarse and clean. It’s not about perfection and empty effects. On this stage nothing is new and highly polished.” (from the vote by Helmut Wenderoth)

    SYNOPSIS

    A group of jugglers are touring the country with their shows. In their luggage they carry instruments, puppets and a generous portion of earthy humour. The stories they tell deal with repression and arbitrary power, just like the original story of the well-meaning horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas. On his way to market to sell his horses he is arrested for being unable to produce proper transit papers by an official employed by a Junker named von Tronka. Michael Kohlhaas is forced to leave his two horses at the fortress as collateral. Here his horses are overworked and mistreated in the fields. This sparks off a sensitive reaction in Kohlhaas’s sense of justice. He attempts to sue for compensation but everywhere he is denied his rights. Driven by his failure to understand the situation and his feelings of fury he begins to take revenge.

    Heinrich von Kleist gives one of the finest descriptions in German history of a man who runs amok. Thanks to a large number of songs, magic tricks and artistic interludes the production becomes a terrifying mix of burlesque and musical theatre.

    The production won the main prize at the WESTWIND Festival 2012, the prize „Coup de Cœur“ and the first prize at the festival KUSS in Hessen 2012.

     

    Heute_Kohlhaas_2_Foto_Ursula Kaufmann

    © Ursula Kaufmann

    Theater Marabu (set up in 1993) is an independent young people’s theatre with its own venue in Bonn. The main influence on its development was a man called Marcel Cremer, the artistic director of the Agora Theatre, who was a regular guest director with Theater Marabu from 1997 onwards before he died in 2009.
    www.theater-marabu.de

    The AGORA Theatre from St.Vith in Belgium was set up in 1980 by Marcel Cremer. Until his death he was the theatre’s artistic director. A fundamental part of his work was “autobiographical theatre”. The theatre comprises 33 members and presents its plays both in German and French. It tours throughout the whole of Europe and has been awarded a huge number of prizes at national and international festivals.
    www.agora-theater.net