How a student opera travels through the peaceful revolution

The resulting student song opera was performed in Schöneweide in the spring of 1989, initially only internally, then publicly for the first time in January 1990 at the Babylon Cinema, and from the summer of 1990 at the Deutsches Theater. The television recording they presented, "The Sweet Scent Doesn't Come from Roses," called "Corpse Opera," was one of the last productions of GDR television and was broadcast on October 8, 1990—three days after the Unification Treaty came into force. A contemporary document of the fall of communism.


The story of the Rohmayer couple, who one morning find the mayor's body in their bedroom, became a satire on power, morality, and the temptations of opportunism.


With humor and subversive songs, Daniel Morgenroth (lyrics), Christoph Schambach (music), and Peter Dehler (director) posed the question:

• How far will a person go to satisfy their hunger for power?
  

A self-made production by graduates of the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music, and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar.



Corpse Opera featuring: Simone Cohn-Vossen, Sigrun Fischer, Claudia Geisler, Susanne Goder, Christiane Hagedorn, Deborah Kaufmann, Peter Dehler, Daniel Morgenroth, Katrin Schwingel, Marco Albrecht, Dirk Glodde, Peter Klinke, Karsten Laske, Thorsten Merten, Jörg Witte, Katharina Waldmann (née Seidel)