Moonlight Legends at the State Museum. At an evening tour of selected treasures, visitors encounter real “somnambulists” that talk about their mysterious and wondrous experiences.
Directing: Florian Feisel
Performance: Johannes Treß, Julika Mayer, Sascha Bufe, Winnie Luzie Burz
Jan Jedenak, Johanna Maria Zehendner
Photo: Florian Feisel
A cooperation with the Department of puppetry at the State University HMDK Stuttgart.
Duration: 90 minutes
Premiere: 2017
A sportive joyride with three men and their loo, which skedaddle to the bottom and climax in a Babylonian manner. A warm wind? A milestone? Or the runs?
Find out more about the three heroes and follow them on their journey to the deepest innards and the most protected places on earth. Experience grace, rhythm, acrobatics, romance, voyeurism, passion, seduction, politics, vampirism, architecture or let´s just say:
Think about what would you write on the walls of a toilet.
Performance, Idea, Staging: Jan Jedenak, Sascha Bufe, Eike Schmidt
Artistic development: Stefanie Oberhoff
Supported by the Department of puppetry at the State University HMDK Stuttgart.
Premiere: 2014
Duration: 40 minutes
Performance: Jan Jedenak, Philine Pastenaci
Violoncello: Ulrike Eickenbusch
Realisation: Jan Jedenak, Philine Pastenaci
Komposition: Toshiro Mayuzumi
In cooparation with Oper unterwegs and Kabelwerk Vienna (AUT)
Objects, figures, artists, music, language and foam
according to the roman by Boris Vian
It´s like a jazz session with quite harmonies and massive sounds. Five artists changing something banal to a marvelous work. The subject is about an attitude towards life of surreal poem, parodic existentialism and the celebration of hedonism. The life has to be more extravagant, delicious and appealing.
„Hipness is not a state of mind, it’s a fact of life.“ (Cannonball Adderley)
Colin and Chick spend their days with jazz, philosophy and amazing dinner. Chick fell in love with Alise to get an existential experience. Colin finds Chloe, who seems to be hired by Duke Ellington. Between the couples is the chef Nicolas. He is witnessing a love story with ups and downs. A water lily is growing in Chloe´s chest, which is taking her breath away…
The production is including five artists with different views and who visited the university of Stuttgart. They are creating together with the direction team of Hendrik Mannes and Antonia Christl an adaptation of the roman by Boris Vians “L’écume des jours”
Directing: Hendrik Mannes
Directing-Assistent, Dramaturgy: Antonia Christl
Performance, Staging, Live-Music: Maik Evers, Jan Jedenak, Samira Lehmann,
Katharina Muschiol and Stefan Wenzel
Production Manager: Jonas Klinkenberg, Janne Weirup and Josephine Gehrt
Trailer: Thilo Neubacher
A production from Gruppe K, Lehmann und Wenzel and Dekoltas Handwerk
A coproduction with Westflügel Leipzig, FITZ! Stuttgart and Schaubude Berlin
Supported by the department of Cultural Affairs of the city of Leipzig and
LAFT Baden-Wuerttemberg
Duration: 80 minutes
Premiere: 2016
Frankenstein – a hyped up society – a myth of the creative human being – the story of hubris.
Driven by the passion for the experiment, the pleasure of the mutual game, to make the dead matter alive. 4 puppeteer and 2 music artists from three different generations with alchemy, magic and electricity the risky underpinned of the confusion. They amalgamate six artistic approaches on a material that frightens the people in a soft way, since the British author Mary Shelley contrive it in Lake Geneva in the year 1816. Throughout the centuries the creation of the monster is seen as a romantic project for different aspirations and fears. The infernal, divine and iridescent music in the laboratory will make your blood boil.
Directing: Hendrik Mannes
Directing-Assistence, Dramaturgy: Antonia Christl
Assistence: Leonie Sowa
Performance, Staging: Winnie Luzie Burz, Jan Jedenak, Stefan Wenzel,
Michael Vogel
Live-Music: Johannes Frisch, Charlotte Wilde
Voice-Over: Ilka Schönbein
Metal construction: Christian Schmit
Photo: Dana Ersing, Thilo Neubacher
Trailer: Thilo Neubacher
Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel Leipzig and Johannes Frisch Karlsruhe
A coproduction with FITZ! Stuttgart and Westflügel Leipzig
Supported by the Chair of Applied Physics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nueremberg (FAU).
Duration: 80 minutes
Premiere: 2017
Lady Macbeth and her husband are ambitious: They want power, whatever the cost. For this they commit a murder. And the more power they have, the more afraid they are to lose it. And so the killing goes on and on. The Aalen version of William Shakespeare’s famous work places the couple in the foreground and creates a cosmos of kings, nobles, servants and royal children around them with the help of puppet theater.
Performance: Arwid Klaws, Alice Katharina Schmidt und Anne Brüssau, Robert Buschbacher, Emilien Truche
Directing and Staging: Tonio Kleinknecht and Jan Jedenak
Assistent: Kerstin Pell
Music: Claus Wengenmayr
Dramaturgy: Tina Brüggemann
Puppets: Janusz Debinski
Costume: Stephanie Krey
Photo: Municipal Theatre Aalen, Peter Schlipf
A production from the Municipal Theatre Aalen in cooperation with the Department of puppetry at the State University HMDK Stuttgart.
Duration: 90 minutes
Premiere: 2017
Six Munich composers representing different generations and genres have written a ‘singspiel’ in six short scenes based on the Goethe fragment “Hanswursts Hochzeit oder Der Lauf der Welt” (Hanswurst’s Wedding) for the Faust Festival Munich 2018. This short fragment written by a young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was his first attempt at tackling the Faust myth. It is in the tradition of the bawdy fairground puppet plays to which the puppet theater version of the Faust legend belongs.
The ‘singspiel’ is a project spearheaded by the Tonkünstler München, a society of over 1,200 professional musicians, principally composers, performers and music teachers. The singspiel will be premiered in cooperation with the Münchner Stadtmuseum and be performed in the Museum.
The unifying link between the different compositions that make up the whole work can be found in the action of the puppet play and the composers’ decision to use the same ensemble of singers and instruments for all six pieces. The different interpretations of the material by the six composers promise to make for an intriguing and exciting performance.
Franz-David Baumann, Composer
Hans-Henning Ginzel, Composer
Katharina S. Müller, Composer
Helga Pogtschar, Composer
Johannes X. Schachtner, Composer
Anton Zapf, Composer
Winnie Luzie Burz, Puppet Player, Composer
Jan Jedenak, Puppet Player, Conception
Levin Handschuh, Dramaturgical Accompaniment
Katharina Heißenhuber, Soprano
Wolfgang Wirsching, Baritone
Ensemble Blauer Reiter
Head: Armando Merino
Since time immemorial, the moon has exerted its own fascination on people. He was researched, described, sung about and portrayed. As the next celestial body to Earth, he serves as a navigator but also as a projection surface for desires, dreams and longings. As a Trabant, he directly influences us and our environment. And perhaps it also reflects our own existence and individual location in the world. Who am I? Who would I like to be? Where am I? Where do I want to be?
A hare climbs out of a box and asks, “Am I inside? Am I outside? ”
The hare jumps into the box and it begins to grow, transforming itself into the infinite space stage of the theater. The moon appears, the rabbit looks up at him wistfully and wishes to get to the moon. He finds a path that seems to lead there and follows it. When he wants to jump on the moon, the moon and the hare crash into the depths. The hare founds himself in an unknown landscape.
A journey begins in search of the moon, a path that reveals encounters with different forms and phases of being and a desire that helps the hare to find a place in his own story. As a hare in the moon?
Premiere 14th of September 2019
Idea & Development: Andrea Gergely & Jan Jedenak
Direction: Andrea Gergely & Jan Jedenak
A production by LILARUM Vienna (AT)