16.11.04 | 20:00 | Pumpe
GRETE - Germany
Based on J. W. Goethe‘s Faust
With: Claudia Wiedemer
Director: Anja Gronau
Cooperation: Marcel Luxinger
Produced by: Michael Mans
Duration: approx. 60 min.
Language: German
Everybody knows the typical German Gretchen –
she has blond pigtails and keeps whispering silly verses: is
she but a victim of male recklessness? Anja Gronau and Claudia
Wiedemer devoted a whole evening to Gretchen – without
Faust.
To fail and be destroyed, to unconditionally do what has to
be done – Gretchen acts according to this theory of absoluteness.
The possibilities and the suitability of this female figure
in today’s reality are being examined. Has Gretchen, this
creature oscillating between submission and rebellion, anything
important to tell us (assuming we manage to ignore the clichés
about her)?
With GRETE, the director Anja Gronau and the actress Claudia
Wiedemer completed their trilogy about women from the classical
German theatre repertoire: KAETHE (Kleist), JOHANNA (Schiller),
and GRETE. Kaethe of Heilbronn, Joan of Orleans and Grete from
a small German town are three teen-age girls with an all-or-nothing
attitude, driven by their eagerness and youthful passion. Which
is of enormous consequence for their future…
GRETE had its premiere in June 2004 in Berlin (in Theater unterm
Dach).
It was nominated for the Friedrich Luft Award 2004.
