After their return from exile, Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel founded the Berliner Ensemble in 1949. As the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm intended for them was temporarily taken, the troupe moved to the Deutsches Theater. Here, "Der Hofmeister" premiered in the Kammerspiele on April 15, 1950. With his adaptation of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz's drama, Brecht not only rediscovers the hitherto largely forgotten Sturm und Drang poet for the present day. By dealing with the ingenious outsider, he also formulated an objection to the SED's cultural policy, which he perceived as bourgeois. "Der Hofmeister", writes Heiner Müller, "was the high point of Brecht's work at the Berliner Ensemble." During one of the performances at the time, scene photos were taken in quick succession and assembled into a film - the centerpiece of an evening that Tom Kühnel and Jürgen Kuttner set up in the Babylon cinema around two years ago. On the basis of this film, they are now once again approaching this story of an educator who castrates himself in order to become socially acceptable.
Director: Tom Kühnel, Jürgen Kuttner. Stage: Jo Schramm. Costumes: Daniela Selig. Music: Stefan Leibold. Dramaturgy: Claus Caesar
With: Jürgen Kuttner, Peter René Lüdicke, Helmut Mooshammer, Kathleen Morgeneyer, Birgit Unterweger, Stefan Leibold
Director: Tom Kühnel, Jürgen Kuttner. Stage: Jo Schramm. Costumes: Daniela Selig. Music: Stefan Leibold. Dramaturgy: Claus Caesar
With: Jürgen Kuttner, Peter René Lüdicke, Helmut Mooshammer, Kathleen Morgeneyer, Birgit Unterweger, Stefan Leibold
Jan-Pieter Fuhr
Performance rights:
Suhrkamp Publishing House / Brecht Heirs
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