Faust
In einer Welt, in der Menschen in ihren vorgeschriebenen Lebensläufen in Form von Kirchenfenstern gefangen sind, geht Faust mit Mephisto einen Pakt ein, um herauszufinden, was jenseits der Fenster die Welt im innersten zusammen hält. Mephisto nimmt Faust und zugleich auch das Publikum in Gretchens Welt mit. Eine Welt, die nach den gleichen Prinzipien des vorgeschriebenen Lebenslaufs im Kirchenfenster funktioniert, in der es jedoch aufgrund von existenziellen Nöten keinen Platz für die Frage nach dem Hinter dem Fenster/Sinn des Lebens gibt. Nach dem Eintritt des Publikums in Gretchens-Welt beginnt die Passion Gretchens.
Faust kann sich nach Ausbruch zwar frei bewegen, ist sich aber nicht bewusst, dass er im Theater ist. Mephisto hat ein Bewusstsein über das Publikum. Die Figuren in den Fenstern spielen mit der vierten Wand. Beim Eintritt in Gretchens Welt sitzen in Gretchens Fenster Gretchen, in Marthes Fenster Marthe, im Garten Fenster niemand, im Mater Dolorosa Fenster Lieschen, im Valentin Fenster Valentin und im Kerker Fenster niemand. Gretchen aus dem Gretchen Fenster läuft nach und nach durch die Fenster. Es ist das Gretchen, das die Passion Gretchens durchläuft. Die Drehscheibe, auf welchem das Publikum sitzt, dreht sich mit dem Haupt-Gretchen. Während der Drehmomente läuft Musik vom black album von Metallica, das in eine Orgelkomposition umgeschrieben wird, über Lautsprecher.
by Alma Meng and Basil Zecchinel
Urfaust / Faust is hungry and swallows a Grete - cooperation stage+costume khb weißensee & direction HfS Ernst Busch
In the cooperation between a directing class of the HfS Ernst Busch and the department of stage and costume design of the khb weißensee, the joint course management of dramaturg Andrea Vilter, director Nora Schlocker and set designer Marie Roth resulted in the completion of the classical directing team and for the students the valuable opportunity for artistic collaboration.
Directing students from Ernst-Busch met stage design students from weißensee and got to know each other better during an extensive study of Goethe's "Urfaust" and its contemporary rewriting by Ewald Palmetshofer. This was followed by intensive weeks of joint text work, an exclusive tour of the stage at the Deutsches Theater selected for the project and, as a highlight, a video Q&A session with the author Ewald Palmetshofer.
For the second course phase, five interdisciplinary student partnerships came together to work in the stage-directing constellation on concrete concepts for staging and set and costume design.
The independent work of the teams on the fictional designs formed the focus of the course and was accompanied and supported by joint and alternating individual consultations between the three teachers.
Project description
In a world where people are trapped in their prescribed lives in the form of stained glass windows, Faust makes a pact with Mephisto to find out what beyond the windows holds the world together at its core. Mephisto takes Faust, and at the same time the audience, into Gretchen's world. A world that functions according to the same principles of the prescribed course of life in the stained glass window, but in which there is no room for the question of what is behind the window/the meaning of life due to existential needs. After the audience enters Gretchen's world, Gretchen's passion begins.
Faust can move freely after breaking out, but is unaware that he is in the theater. Mephisto has an awareness of the audience. The figures in the windows play with the fourth wall. Upon entering Gretchen's world, Gretchen sits in Gretchen's window, Marthe sits in Marthe's window, nobody sits in the garden window, Lieschen sits in the Mater Dolorosa window, Valentin sits in Valentin's window, and nobody sits in the dungeon window. Gretchen from Gretchen's window runs through the windows one by one. It is the Gretchen that passes through the Passion of Gretchen. The turntable, on which the audience sits, rotates with the main Gretchen. During the turning moments, music from Metallica's black album, which is transcribed into an organ composition, plays over loudspeakers.
