K.O.19
Photo: Dong-Ha Choe
FANTOMOJ
Autumn 2016, Berlin University of the Arts, Hardenbergstraße 33
Four teams of student directors from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts and set design students from the University of the Arts present the theatrical result of their Recherche fantastique.
By & with: Yedam Ann, Marie Baumgarten, Berlin Bears American Football, Anna Bergel, Swetlana Boos, Oliver Brendel, Blue Tap Steptanz Studio, Dimitri Cacouris, Iris Christidi, Evgenij Cernov, Ann-Kristin Danzinger, Candice Dibold, Eno, Flying Steps Academy, Maria Frastanli, Lukas Gander, Da-Eun Han, Ruby Heimpel, Martina Heinzel, Olga Hohmann, IG Blech, Harald Günter Kainer, Sung A Kim, Jana Köder, Anina Krüger, Caroline Kühner, Marie Labsch, Seung Hwan Lee, Zihern Lee, Cristián Lehmann-Carrasco, Julia Liro, Jeanne Louët, Sarah Maatallah, Hartmut Meyer, Laura Mogalle, Cholong Moon, Marie Schleef, Sanja Schmidt, Cameron Seglias, Donghyun Seo, Roman Senkl, Surtukes, Jessica Tay, Anna Volkland, Jens Vilela Neumann, Wall-E, Felix Walter, Chulgyun Yoo, Hana Yoo, Shin So Young Less …
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Full of fantasy and a good measure of self-deprecation, the prospective theatre practitioners ask themselves all-encompassing questions about art, their life affecting development and the limits of mediation. In this playful artistic reflection, assumptions, facts and fiction mix into an exciting mockumentary, a deliberately tendentious synthesis of text, imagery, music, theatre and song. We ask ourselves where we are, as we grapple with a series of scenic conjectures in our indeterminate location.
The awe inspiring building complex in the Hardenbergstraße was modelled according to the taste of Wilhelm II. It resisted the tribulations of the Second World War, served as a temporary military hospital and stands today, as in the past, as a fortress against an increasingly fatalistic and dystopian ruled world. At the same time, it is an island for the gifted, the lucky few who have been chosen. Or is it rather the den of a great monster hidden behind the machine, emitting odours of solvent, the Hydra who continuously births artists and leaves them to fend for themselves in this labyrinth of hundreds of rooms, ateliers and workshops? The mission is to reveal the invisible, to open doors, lofts and cellars that have never before been seen under the light of the public eye, to give form to forgotten and failed artists of the past.
The production pays tribute to art professors who were persecuted after Hitler’s rise to power, such as Oskar Schlemmer, whose visionary plan to build an interdisciplinary studio stage in the garden of ruins was never implemented. Professors who were sanctioned by the Nazi regime are also given a voice; Richard Scheibe was exempted from military service and braved the air strikes of the allies on Berlin in the attic of the building every night. In the end it was Scheibe’s pertinent experience in casting monumental statues of the Red Army, after the latter had taken over Berlin, which proved useful in erecting the memorial in Treptower Park, whereby a bronze shoe travelled a strange path. The artists incite our compassion as they strive for self-realization, waiting in constant expectation for their longed-for success, building on a future that does not come to pass; wretched aspirants, who year in year out subject themselves to a secret initiation ritual. In contrast, the space is also home to art thieves who manipulate history and counterfeit without qualm. They too are granted a presence in this parcours.
As it can be disorienting to follow these stories through the buildings of the University of the Arts, a map is issued with each ticket purchase to ensure ease of navigation through the recorded rooms and spaces. These include the entrance halls, oblique gallery, the conference room 110, the lecture hall 158, the nude model hall, the staircases and corridors of the building. The production also incorporates the garden of ruins, relics, both sculpture courtyards and the stone house.
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K.O.18
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GERMANIA. AN EXORCISM
February 2015, Academy of Arts Berlin, Pariser Platz
Set & costume design: Günter Lemke, Hsiu-Ying Hou, Sanghwa Park // Direction: Michael Höppner, Sarah Kohm, Hsuan Huang
A production by the Berlin University of the Arts and the Berlin Academy of Arts.
A collaboration between directing, set design, voice/music theatre, music, acting and sound studies, event technology and management streams from Berlin University of the Arts, the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin, the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg and the Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin.
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The Berlin Academy of Arts at Pariser Platz confronts its past. Young theatre practitioners have created a performative course over the four floors of the glass building, where supposedly vanquished spirits of the past form a pressing threat to the living. The production utilizes the aesthetic language of revue, parody and the grotesque, as well as sound installation, visual collages and soundscapes to shine a light on this historically open yet contaminated domain, to make the constant influence of the past on the present sensorial and visible.
K.O.17
Photo: Thilo Mössner
… DON'T DISSECT YOURSELF
Autumn 2013 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Set & costume design: Maria Gamsjäger, Jennifer Hörr, Günter Lemke // Direction: Franziska Guggenbichler Beck, Julia Lwowski, Sina Schecker
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Using art songs by Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg as a starting point, the production takes us on a search for fragments of remembered past, meeting death, the devil, God and insanity along the way.
K.O.16
Photo: Roger Rosell
THE LEGION. FOUR STRATEGIC SLANTS ON WAGNER'S RING
January 2013, Berlin Academy of Arts at Hanseatenweg
Set & costume design: Katharina Korth, Christina Schmitt, Franziska Schuster, Ingibjörn Jara Sigurðardóttir // Direction: Lee Soo-eun, Franziska Kronfoth, Julia Lwowski, Margo Zalite
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
As part of “Wagner 2013. Künstlerpositionen”, the artists present a rebuttal to Wagner’s excess through condensed versions of the four parts of the ring cycle. They focus on specific thematic focal points and individual narratives. In a single evening the company recreate the ring of the Nibelung in the form of a tour through the transformed rooms of the academy.
WAGNER RELOADED von Irmgard Berner, BTR, Sonderband 2013 [PDF]
K.O.15
Photo: Roger Rosell
JOHN CAGE: EUROPERA 3
Autumn 2012 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Set & costume design: Hsiu-Ying Hou, Isabelle Kaiser, Josefine Lindner, Marcel Teske // Direction: Maria-Magdalena Kwaschik, Alexander Scholz, Eva-Maria Weiss
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Three teams take up Cage’s playful glance at Europe and its values in a ‘clash of productions’: a ‘rupture of Europe’ game in which ‘Europe’ and ‘Opera’ set the rules by which the teams collide with their creative ideas.
K.O.14
Photo: Roger Rosell
IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE IMAGE: A GOLDFISH ON THE LINE
Spring 2012 at UNI.T
Set & costume design: Anne Klee, Friederike Meese, Vera Rubenbauer, Paula Wellmann // Direction: Friederike Meese, Sibylle Polster, Jung Sun Kim
Together with choreographers, dancers, actors, musicians, puppeteers and sound designers, the set design students have created three short music theatre pieces based on the film music of four distinct decades. Performed in cooperation with the Skazka Orchestra
K.O.13
Photo: Michael Radig
… MY PEACE IS GONE
Autumn 2011 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2)
Set & costume design: Stefanie Lindner, Franziska Schuster, Nora Willy // Direction: Tamara Heimbrock, Sina Schecker, Margita Zalite
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts.
Love in Wartime. Comedic confusion as rebellious wives conspire; they refuse to share their bed with their husbands until the men make peace. The team of budding directors and designers grapple with these themes through three virtually unknown singspiels by Franz Schubert.
K.O.12
Photo: Waldemar Kremser
WACHSFIGURENKABINETT. FIVE SHORT OPERAS BY KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN
Spring 2010 at UNI.T
Set & costume design: Lee Soo-eun, Franziska Keune, Vera Rubenbauer // Direction: Lee Soo-eun, Franziska Kronfoth // Choreografie: Sabine Zahn
Music theatre production by puppetry students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin with set design and sound studies students from the Berlin University of the Arts
The public are guided through five stations on a journey through the buildings of the UdK. Experience Hartmann’s biting social satire with its themes of unemployment, global economic crisis, political unrest and social indifference as a mix of opera production, performance and audio-visual installation.
K.O.11
Photo: Doro Tuch
A RADIO STATION NAMED DESIRE
Autumn 2010 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2)
Set & costume design: Stefanie Lindner, Valeria Popov, Christina Schmitt, Benjamin Schönecker // Direction: Julia Glass, Julia Lwowski, Georg Schütky
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Three short operas, written in 1946 and 1969 by Boris Blacher, experiment quirkily with differentiating forms of music theatre. We are served what we have come to expect from opera: love, passion, rage, sorrow, pain and fear.
K.O.10
Photo: Bella Lieberberg
LA PETITE MORT
Autumn 2009 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2)
Set & costume design: Friederike Meese, Matthias Nebel, Yassu Yabara // Direction: Sarah Maria Kosel, Maximilian von Mayenburg, Georg Schütky
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
The K.O. project series celebrates its tenth anniversary with three French music theatre pieces by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
K.O.9
Photo: Marcus Krüger
CHOIRS
Spring 2009 at UNI.T
Set & costume design: Felice Kroworsch, Martin Miotk, Jennifer Wjertzoch // Direction: Anja Kühnhold, Rahel Fiona Juschka, Dominik Wagner
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts with Consortium Vocale Berlin, Canta:re und Chorikos
Three teams present highly contrasting interpretations on the works of Claudio Monteverdi, Hanns Eisler and Georg Katzer.
K.O.8
Photo: Bella Lieberberg
AMORE PER TUTTI!
Autumn 2008 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Set & costume design: Emily Laumanns, Fabienne Müller, Merle Vierck // Direction: Franziska Kronfoth, Roman Lemberg, Alvaro Schoeck
Music theatre production by directing students from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts in collaboration with the Jungen Philharmonie Brandenburg
A Night in Venice
K.O.7
Photo: Jan Christoph Schlüter
THE FAT BOOTY OF MADNESS
Spring 2008 at UNI.T
Set & costume design: Anna Hentschel, Friederike Meese, Matthias Winkler // Direction: Beate Baron, Sarah Maria Kosel
Music theatre production by directing students from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Three romantic song cycles: Robert Schumann Frauenliebe und Leben op. 42, Eichendorff–Liederkreis op. 39 and Franz Schubert Schwanengesang D 957
K.O.6
Photo: Jan Christoph Schlüter
¡CHICAS, MACHOS, NOCHES CALIENTES!
Autumn 2007 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Set & costume design: Lena Fay, Nicola Minssen, Judith Philipp // Direction: Karin Maria Piening, Alvaro Schoeck, Dominik Wagner
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts in collaboration with the RIAS youth orchestra
Conducting, directing, set design and singing students showcase three Zarzuelas, a Spanish variant of the Operetta, promising a hot and steamy night.
K.O.5
Photo: Sebastian Laraia
IT ITCHES …
Autumn 2006 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 1)
Set & costume design: Rebekka Dornhege, Susanne Jakob, Maike Storf, Merle Vierck // Direction: Sarah Kosel, Franziska Kronfoth, Mareike Mikat, Miriam Salevic
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Four short operas: Körperliche Veränderungen by Olga Neuwirth, Ariadne & Erstarrung by Jörn Arnecke, Informationen über Barthleby by Benjamin Schweitzer, Zweifelsohne by Johannes Harneit
K.O.4
Photo: Jan Christoph Schlüter
WELCOME HOME
Spring 2006 at UNI.T
Set & costume design: Justyna Jaszczuk, Lisa Jacobi, Judith Philipp, Lea Walloschke // Direction: Reyna Bruns, Susanne Knapp, Johannes Müller, Sibylle Polster
Original music by composition students from the UdK and HfM, libretti by dramatic writing students from the UdK, direction by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin with set by set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts.
World premiere of four short operas by Paul Friedrich Frick, Stefan Keller, Arne Sanders and Sebastian Winkler
K.O.3
Photo: Sonya Schöneberger
RITA SPORT
Autumn 2005 at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU 2)
Set & costume design: Jana Findeklee, Soo-eun Lee, Nicola Minssen, Joki Tewes // Direction: Reyna Bruns, Michael von zur Mühlen, Therese Schmidt
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and Cracow Academy of Performing Arts, with set design students from the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts and Berlin University of the Arts.
Five short operas by Mauricio Kagel and Detlev Glanert
K.O.2
Photo: Benjamin Krieg
HANGMAN'S DESIRE
Spring 2005 at Berlin University of the Arts
Set & costume design: Sebastian Figal, Justyna Jaszczuk, Lisa Jacobi, Angelikí Konti, Philine Rinnert // Direction: Beate Baron, Johannes Müller, Susanne Ogland, Sibylle Polster
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin, the TU Berlin, the Berlin College of Fine Arts Weißensee, FU Berlin, TFH Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
Four baroque operas by Claudio Monteverdi, Giacomo Carissimi and Giovanni Valentini
K.O.1
Photo: Jirka Janusch
SIX SHORT QUIRKY OPERAS
Autumn 2004 at the studio of the Komische Oper Berlin
Set & costume design: Doro Brodrück, Franz Gronemeyer, Nikola Grusnick, Nina Janke, Eva Martin, Florent Martin, Judith Oswald, Philine Rinnert // Direction: Anestis Azas, Robert Desmond, Solvjeg Franke, Nurkan Erpulat, Wojtek Klemm, Arved Schultze
Music theatre production by student directors from the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and set design students from the Berlin University of the Arts
The Four Note Opera by Tom Johnson, Herzstück by Friedrich Goldmann, K(l)eine Morgenstern-Szene by Jörg Widmann, Egon und Familie by Ernst Toch, Herzstück oder Der Tumor gratis by F. Goldmann, Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters by Ned Rorem
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