Production was realized in 1991 as a commission from Inventionen '91, Berlin and
the DAAD program; and later at the Gasteig, München; Secession
Wien, (Wiener Fest Wochen); in Kulturpalast Dresden; in
1994 at the Berlin Festival in Prague (in Czech Language); in 1995 at Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg and the Goethe Institute Budapest (in Hungarian Language); and
in 1997 at the Zurich Theater Spektakel, Stadtheater Ludwigshaven, and
at Festspielhaus Hellerau-Dresden.
The production won the Philip Morris Art Prize in 1992.
Materials: Computer synchronized slide projection system, eight channel sound
environment, 16 mm film projection
Performers: three speakers of texts, composition performed by The
Orchestra of Excited Strings; Vocalist: Shelley Hirsch
Set in a Procenium arch situation, in which a series of scrim material walls
divide the stage space laterally into several light zones. Private (amateur)
photographs and films, and documentary sound materials (language and music)
representing the regions and the time period have been selected from archives
and personal collections. Light and shadow integrate the performers within the
projections. An opera libretto composed of textual historical fragments was
sung and spoken by the performers.
Texts from: Who’s Who in Central & East Europe 1933
Images: Horus Archive, Private Film Archive, Budapest
Image Composition: Etta Von Cramer
Sound Material: German Radio Archive.
Sound Composition by Hans Peter Kuhn
Stage and Light Design, Co-Direction: Fred Pommerehn
Hypertext: Heiko Idensen
Performances:
Inventionen '91, Kino Babylon, 1991
Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, 1991
Kulturpalast, Dresden (Production: Philip Morris), 1991
Gasteig, München (Production: Philip Morris), 1991
Berlin Hier und Jetzt Festival (Dnes a Tady), in collaboration with the Goethe
Institute, Prague, 1994
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, 1995
Petrofi Czarnok, Budapest, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, Prague,
1995
Theater Spektakel, Zurich, 1997
Festspielhaus Hellerau-Dresden, 1997
Theater im Pfalzbau, Ludwigshafen/Rhein, 1997
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