CURRENT
E.L.I.Z.A.
In 2023, a Belgian researcher took his own life after making a pact with a personalized AI that in return it would save humanity from climate change. Based on interviews and chat protocols, the Brachland ensemble creates an interactive chamber play. / Role: Pierre / Director: Claudia Sowa.
ALL THAT OUT THERE
Performative audio walk in German non-places. In cooperation with the UrbanLAB Nuremberg
HUMANOTOP
In cooperation with RWTH Aachen and Münster University of Applied Sciences, the Brachland ensemble claims to be an interactive future area. / Role: Scientist / Director: Brachland Ensemble
CASTING CULTURE
The interactive online role-playing game addresses structural discrimination and makes it fun to experience. / Role: Peter / Director: Brachland-Ensemble
WHO ARE WE THEN?
If your city had a single person, what would he be like? An interactive city discovery - live and online. / Role: Moderator / Director: Brachland Ensemble
EUROPE INN
A theatrical hybrid simulation game about global systems, local neighborhoods and African chickens. / Role: Klaus / Director: Brachland-Ensemble
DICTATE
In the course of the performance, the desire to command and the naturalness of obedience are brought to a head with a simple theatrical exercise: A gives B orders, which B immediately carries out. When does the theatrical game stop and perhaps real humiliation begin? / Role: Performer / Director: Brachland Ensemble
ROBIN HOOD
"Robin Hood" symbolizes in an exciting adventure form how to deal with social conflicts that have persisted to this day - the question of how a society's goods should be distributed fairly remains highly topical. / Role: Robin / Director: Claudia Sowa
AS GUEST (2023-2011)
REVOLUTION:EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE!
An internationally researched piece about “practical possibilists” and the question: Who in our society gives the impulse to change things for the better? / Role: Performer / Director: Brachland Ensemble
READY FOR BOARDING
Documentary live radio play based on the CIA torture report in cooperation with Amnesty International. / Role: Speaker / Director: Brachland Ensemble / Jury Prize Hessische Theatertage 2017 / Audience Prize Made Festival 2017
A CITY IS CHANGING
An absurd course through the new city What happens when we start seeing ourselves differently? / Role: Player / Director: Nina de la Chevallerie
BUG MULDOON II
After over sixty sold-out performances in the TiL and taT, the Gießen City Theater is now showing its latest case. Bug Muldoon – take over! / Role: Wanze Muldoon / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
TRENK THE LITTLE KNIGHT
An adventurous knight's story about friendship, dreams and the courage to trust your own small, big strengths. / Role: Momme Mumm, Wertold, among others / Director: Andreas Kloos
THINGS AROUND US
Performative speaking concert There are three performers and the three-piece band “Caro Kiste Kontrabass” from Kassel on stage. / Role: Performer / Director: Gunnar Seidel
ESMERALDA
Comedy about the famous bell ringer from a different perspective. / Role: Frollo / Director: Peter Förster
THE CURIOSITY OF BRAIN
“The Curiosity of Brain” is an imaginative brain research, a mixture of physical theater and animated film. / Role: Brian, Brain / Director: Brachland-Ensemble
BROTHERS IN ARMS
Theater Tanz Projekt entwickelt aus persönlich-dokumentarischem Material. Persönliche Auseinandersetzungen über Männlichkeit, Militär und Macht. Rolle: Tänzer / Regie: Ana Zirner
URMEL AUS DEM EIS
Thanks to the staging and television production by the Augsburger Puppenkiste, the piece is unforgettable. / Role: Wawa / Director: Andreas Kloos
ECHNATON
Opera in three acts by Philip Glass In English, Egyptian, Akkadian and Aramaic with German surtitles / Role: Scribe / Director: Nanine Linning
ABSENT
Dance theater – very loosely based on the novel “The Mussel Eating” by Birgit Vanderbeke. Dance and Theater Prize of the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg / Role: Dancer / Director: Nicki Liszta
REFLEXIONS
The dance performance asks about an “empathetic civilization”. The texts are based on a series of interviews. / Role: Dancer / Director: Brachland Ensemble
ATALANTA
Documentary theater about piracy off the Somali coast. The team traveled to East Africa specifically to research the background of piracy there. / Role: Performer / Director: Jens-Erwin Siemssen
AMPHITRYON
Classics by Heinrich von Kleist. / Role: Jupiter / Director: Claudia Sowa
TRÄUME
The five dreams, rearranged in order, are connected by Eich's poems and the short introduction to each of these nightmares. Nominated for the Cologne Theater Prize 2012 / Role: Speaker / Director: Benjamin Schad
ERSTE LIEBE
Story by Samuel Beckett / Role: Narrator / Director: Claudia Sowa
SERAIL
A slightly different perspective on the well-known story. / Role: Selim / Director: Peter Förster
SOUND OF A SUMMER
On a fixed route between the Documentahalle and the Huguenot House, visitors search for the audio signals running in an endless loop. Again and again, voices and moods emerge from the noise of the ether, sounding through the headphones like echoes of the past summer. / Role: Performer / Director: Gunnar Seidel
NUTS
Based on the film by Tom Topor. Role: Aaron Lewinsky / Director: Volker Lechtenbrink
KÄSE
Premiere of the unpublished story by Wolfgang Borchert. / Role: Speaker / Director: Wolfgang Stockmann.
2011-2009 City Theater Giessen
THURSTY
Play by Wajdi Mouawad in collaboration with Benoît Vermeulen, for teenagers and adults. / Role: Murdoch / Director: Abdul M. Kunze
WORK
The debate about how much life depends on work permeates across all management levels and wage groups. Why actually? / Role: Motivational Rat / Director: Hermann Schein
LAST EXIT DESIRE
Wolfram Starczewski directs the award-winning play Endstation Sehnsucht at the Giessen City Theater and tells the story, set in the 1940s, far from American clichés. / Role: Steve / Director: Wolfram Starczewski
AMADEUS
In the sold-out large house, the premiere audience followed the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the perspective of his bitterest opponent Salieri. / Role: Venticello / Director: Astrid Jacob
OLD FORD ESCORT DARK BLUE
It's a road trip towards freedom with AC/DC as the soundtrack. But despite all the longing, the journey ends back where it began... / Role: Boxer / Director: Dirk Schulz
BUG MULDOON
After over 45 sold-out performances in Bremerhaven, the cult piece is finally running at the city theater in Giessen. / Role: Wanze Muldoon / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
MR. BELLO AND THE BLUE WONDER
When a mysterious old woman shows up in Max's father's pharmacy one day and leaves a bottle with a mysterious blue liquid behind, events in Max's life suddenly come to a head: his dog Bello licks the substance and - whoosh - turns into one People! / Role: Max / Director: Abdul M Kuntze
AS YOU LIKE IT
Banished from court, Rosalinde flees to the Forest of Arden disguised as a young man. Here she meets Orlando, who, lovesick, is wandering through the forest after her. Rosalinde does not reveal herself to him; rather, Orlando is supposed to let his new friend heal him from his love pain. / Role: Oliver / Director: Ragna Kirck
39 STEPS
Anyone who is familiar with Alfred Hitchcock's classic from 1955 will rightly be wondering how this espionage thriller about mysterious documents and dark secret societies can be managed on a studio stage. / Role: Man 1 / Director: Meike Niemeyer
GERMANIA - DEATH IN BERLIN
German history is a lasting burden for Müller: unfinished and omnipresent. Not a historical confection like the media is currently offering. Role: Clown among others / Director: Hermann Schein
THE MASTER BUILDER
Ibsen's play, published in 1892, is about the limits of self-realization that even an artist has. / Role: Ragnar Brovic / Director: Wolfram J. StarzewskI
WOYZECK
In an uncompromising society, it turns out, there is no place for someone like Woyzeck. Perpetratorship and victimhood appear in a new light. / Role: Andres / Director: Thomas Goritzki
2009-2007 City Theater Bremerhaven
THE GOLDEN YEARS ARE OVER
Based on the film of the same name by Hans Weingartner / Role: Peter / Director: Andreas Kloos
MOLD RIDER
Based on the novella by Theodor Storm / Role: Ole Peters / Director: Harry Fuhrmann
THE GRÖNHOLM-METHOD
A breathtaking competition full of cynicism, sophistication and bitter wit, which intensifies when it becomes known that one of the applicants is a member of the human resources department. / Role: Carlos Bueno / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
KING LEAR
King Lear is blinded by imperiousness and vanity, which leads him to ignore the affection and modesty of his youngest daughter and to treat her very unfairly in the distribution of his inheritance, a mistake that ultimately leads to his downfall. / Role: Edgar / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
LINIE 1
The cult musical from Berlin now also in the far north / Role: Kleister and others / Director: Andreas Kloos
KASIMIR AND KAROLINE
Kasimir and Karoline is a play by Ödön von Horváth. As can be seen from the first stage directions, the folk play takes place in Munich “in our time”. / Role: Kasimir / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
DOGVILLE
Based on the film of the same name by Lars von Trier / Role: Tom / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
THE PHYSICISTS
Dürrenmatt leads his story with inexorable consistency to an end that blows open the doors of this madhouse, releases deadly explosives from the walls that were just protecting them and into a world that has been exposed without protection, and no viewer can escape being deeply affected. / Role: Nurse / Director: Thilo Foggenreiter
ANTON THE MICE-MUSICAL
Christmas is around the corner! With shining eyes, the mouse brothers Willi and Franz tell their little brother Anton about the time when mouse dreams come true. Speculoos, cinnamon stars and almond macaroons: Christmas is, as every mouse knows, “the most gluttonous festival of the year”! / Role: Franz / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
A MIDSUMMERS NIGHTDREAM
Hermia is supposed to marry Demetrius even though she loves Lysander. Demetrius once loved Helena and now wants Hermia, which makes Helena, who has been left alone, despair. Theseus demands that Hermia choose Demetrius until his royal wedding with Hippolyta - whom he has forcibly conquered - otherwise she should forgo fulfilling her love. Faced with this threat, Hermia and Lysander flee into the forest / Role: Demetrius / Director: Wolfgang Hofmann
2007-2003 TJG DRESDEN
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
The legendary history as an open-air theater in the Stallhof Dresden / Role: Rochefort / Director: Volker Metzler
FAUST EPISODE II
Faust, the second part as an electronic musical with music by Karsten Gundermann / Role: various / Director: Volker Metzler
KICK N RUSH
A life on the bench. / Role: Chriegel / Director: Marcello Diaz
HELLO NAZI
Piece by Lutz Hübner. The piece playfully deals with a topic that - according to the theater pedagogical support - is “burning under the nails”. / Role: Jan / Director: Anette Straube
PENTHESILEA
History of Henry V. Kleist / Role: Diomedes / Director: Anette Straube
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
The legendary history as an open-air theater in the Stallhof Dresden / Role: Cyrano / Director: Stefan Schimmel
SIMPLICISSIMUS
Stage version about the history of the 30 Years' War. / Role: various / Director: Gerald Gluth
NELLY GOODBYE
Rock production by Lutz Hübner / Role: Jhonny / Director: Volker Metzler
SNOWQUEEN
The famous story about Kai and Gerda now as a Christmas fairy tale in Dresden / Role: Kai / Director: Volker Metzler
I'LL KILL YOU OFF
The basis is the school massacres in Columbine and Erfurt Role: Ben / Director: Anette Straube
PROMETHEUS
Prometheus, the deposed Titan, is banished to Earth. There he forms the first human from clay. / Role: Prometheus / Director: Anette Straube
ARTUS
The story of the Arthurian saga as a chamber play. / Role: Kay / Director: Maya Fanke
MEMPHIS BROTHERS
n the Swiss provinces in the 50s. Elvis in the minds of young people. / Role: Edgar / Director: Gerald Gluth
MOMO
The world-famous story of Michael Ende. / Role: Agent with the doll / Director: Volker Metzler
THE FIRE RED FLOWER
The model for “Beauty and the Beast” / Role: Bad Sister / Director: Anette Straube
HAMLET
Shakespeare's most famous work. Role: Fortinbras / Rosenkranz / Director: Gerald Gluth
THE LEGEND OF PAUL UND PAULA
Based on the famous film template. / Role: Stasi / Director: Volker Metzler
2003-2001 WTT Remscheid
WAITNG FOR GODOT
Vladimir: So? We go? Tarragon: Let's go! (They don't move from the spot.)" Role: Estragon / Director: Jaschi Jaschinski
LA CELESTINA
Version by Dr. Manfred Weckwerth / Role: Calisto / Director: Manfred Weckwerth
TÜRSTEHER
“First we sell our fizzy drinks to the idiots, then you throw them out.” Role: Ingo / Director: Wolfgang Eysold
MAGIC AFTERNOON
Novelle by Wolfgang Bauer / Role: Arne / Director: Harald Demmer
KIKERIKISTE
Story by Paul Maar / Role: Kümmel / Director: Bernd Vossen
CAMILLE CLAUDELLE
Story about the famous artist. / Role: Paul Claudelle / Director: Matthias Claus
THE CHALK CIRCLE
The template for Bertold Brecht's Caucasian chalk circle / Role: Prince Pao / Director: Gwendolyn von Ambesser
RUMPELSTILTSKIN
The legendary fairy tale now in Remscheid. / Role: King / Director: Jaschi Jaschinski
KASPER ON THE MAGIC ISLAND
Comedy for children ages 6 and up. / Role: Kasper / Director: Jaschi Jaschinski
THE JUNGLE BOOK
The famous story about Mowgli, Baghirra and Baloo. / Role: Balu / Director: Jaschi Jaschinski
TREASURE ISLAND
Story by Robert Louis Stevenson / Role: Dr. Billhorn / Director: Jaschi Jaschinski
2001-1999 Young Theater Leverkusen
BUTTERBREAD
Story about a men's shared apartment by Gabriel Barylli / Role: Stefan/ Director: Petra Clemens
GRETCHEN 89 FF
Gretchen 89 ff. is a declaration of love for the theater, hilarious fun for everyone and a deep look behind the theater scenes: In rapid succession, a wide variety of directors and actresses rehearse the “box scene” from Goethe's Faust I, Reclamheft, page 89 following. / Role: Men / Director: Bernd Vossen
HEART OF A BOXER
THE HEART OF A BOXER is a piece of the art of boxing your way through life. When you're down, says Leo, the old fighter, you get back up. / Role: Jojo / Director: Claudia Sowa
FAUST, HEINRICH W.
The good Lord is angry. Even after 27 semesters of studying theology, Faust still can't stop. Meph has to get to it again. / Role: Meph / Director: Bernd Vossen
DANCING WITH YOU
Review of over 100 years of music history. Role: Bastian / Director: Bernd Vossen
CABAL AND LOVE
Ferdinand loves Luise. Luise loves Ferdinand. So far, so tragic. / Role: Ferdinand, Wurm / Director: Bernd Vossen
ANDORRA
In the small state of Andorra, everything has to be white - simply to differentiate itself from the residents of the neighboring state, who are only called “the blacks”. Blacks' hatred of Jews in Andorra is particularly outrageous - even if they themselves hold these prejudices. / Role: Peider / Director: Bernd Vossen
LEONCE AND LENA
“Idleness is the beginning of all vices,” says Leonce, Prince of Rich Popo, and stretches out his legs. He is supposed to take over the affairs of state from his father, King Peter, who is tired of government, but Leonce doesn't even think about it. To make matters worse, when King Peter wants to marry him off to a foreign princess, Leonce runs away. / Role: Leonce / Director: Bernd Vossen