nach Lord Byron • Hinrichs
If I am not me - Because of him, people threw themselves off cliffs: Lord Byron is the epitome of the romantic revolutionary artist. His play Sardanapal belongs back on the playbill of this theater. A plea by Fabian Hinrichs.
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150 million years ago, Europe was warm and humid, and giant brontosaurs ate cypress treetops bare. Then, 15,000 years ago, there was an ice age, the earth's surface was covered by meter-high glaciers, and there was no life to be found. That is known. And no one is surprised. And it has often been thought and written that time kills each of us and that even from the great Alexander only dust remains, which plugs a bunghole. But that a man who 200 years ago lent his name to the state of mind of an entire era, after whose death women threw themselves off cliffs and men into despondency, that this man and all his works have been completely forgotten, - that is remarkable, sobering and to be mourned.
This very forgotten man, poet, politician, traveler, anorexic, and freedom fighter with deformed Achilles tendons, referred to here, was George Gordon Byron, then also known as Lord Byron. The cultural movement that bore his name was called "Byronism," the "world-weariness," a terrible, lifelong pain that he could have ended only if the world had ended. And the forgotten works of the Anglo-Saxon number one successful author of the first half of the 19th century are called "Manfred", "Childe Harold", "Cain" and - "Sardanapal". But while "Nathan the Wise" and Lessing in general could quietly take a seat on the bench of the national theater team for a while, especially the effortless, cheekily called tragedy and dedicated to Goethe embarrassingly forgotten melange of tragedy, burlesque and melodrama called "Sardanapal" deserves a radiant rebirth.
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Participating artists
Knut Andreas
Christine Bach
Christine Bach
Marten Baum
Danielle Bezaire
Tabea Braun
Martin Buczko
Preda Bâzga
Dennis Dietrich
Madlen Engelskirchen
Pauline Funke
Anna Heesen
Nele Hermann
Fabian Hinrichs
Fabian Hinrichs
Fabian Hinrichs
Bianca Hüchtebrock
Jeff Jimenez
Iga Kowalczyk
Martha Lange
Roman Lukyanchenko
Ann-Christine Müller
Frank Novak
Pat Pertz
Heike Scharffenberg
Sir Henry
Lilith Stangenberg
Tänzer:innen des Flying Steps Diploma Programms
Christine Wunderlich
Jugendsinfonieorchester Berlin am Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium
Davide de Biasi
Fabian Hinrichs (mit)
Lilith Stangenberg (mit)
Sir Henry (mit)
Christine Bach (Tänzer:innen)
Marten Baum (Tänzer:innen)
Davide de Biasi (Tänzer:innen)
Danielle Bezaire (Tänzer:innen)
Martin Buczko (Tänzer:innen)
Dennis Dietrich (Tänzer:innen)
Madlen Engelskirchen (Tänzer:innen)
Pauline Funke (Tänzer:innen)
Nele Hermann (Tänzer:innen)
Bianca Hüchtebrock (Tänzer:innen)
Iga Kowalczyk (Tänzer:innen)
Roman Lukyanchenko (Tänzer:innen)
Christine Wunderlich (Tänzer:innen)
Tänzer:innen des Flying Steps Diploma Programms (Tänzer:innen)
Preda Bâzga (Musiker:innen)
Jugendsinfonieorchester Berlin am Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium (Musiker:innen)
Fabian Hinrichs (Musik & Regie)
Fabian Hinrichs (Bühne)
Ann-Christine Müller (Bühne)
Tabea Braun (Kostüme)
Martha Lange (Kostüme)
Frank Novak (Licht)
Knut Andreas (Einstudierung & Musikalische Leitung Orchester)
Heike Scharffenberg (Einstudierung & Musikalische Leitung Orchester)
Christine Bach (Choreographie)
Jeff Jimenez (Choreographie)
Pat Pertz (Stunttraining)
Anna Heesen (Dramaturgie)
