Widu theatre

Directed by: Stephanie Grau

Commissioned production for the 650th anniversary of the city of Oldenburg

Stage design: Michael Olsen and Oliver Herbolzheimer

1995

Concept and direction: Bernt Wach. Performers: Markus Weiß (Friedrich II), Ulf Goerges (Berard of Castacca / Archbishop of Palermo), Jörg Hemmen (servant). Costumes: Regine Meinardus. Stage design / graphic design: Bernhard Weber-Meinardus, version: Bernhard Weber-Meinardus, Michael Olsen, music: Kai Leinweber. Film recordings / film editing: Frank Bekurs. Technique: Hartmut Lanje and Jörg Hemmen. Production management: Hanna Schroeder.

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‘A dreamlike message about the meaning of life ...’ What is it about this Atlantis? Why are so many people interested and fascinated? Did this dream paradise really exist and why did Atlantis go down?

Aunt Olga, the well-known Atlantis explorer, would know the answers. But Aunt Olga has died. Her niece, the successful real estate agent Greta Reibach, is only interested in the quick takeover of her heritage: Aunt Oiga's house. Unfortunately, she has to share the legacy with her despised cousin, policeman Martin Knolle. And Aunt Olga made a condition: Greta and Martin have to spend a night together in this house. That night the whole house gets moving and with it the two guests. You will discover a book full of puzzles, whose solutions lead to new puzzles. Thus, Aunt Olga lures her heirs on strange paths through the whole house, and gradually Greta and Martin come closer and closer to the myth of Atlantis. In a lustful and atmospherically dense production, they trace the errors and confusions of interpersonal feelings and take the viewers into a bizarre world. Not so much the doom aspect of Atlantis is in the foreground, but rather the utopian content of the ways of life of the Atlanteans. It's about utopias and hope.

Directed by: Rotraut de Neve
Assistant director : Ulrike Grade
Acting : Susan Keiper and Dieter Hinrichs
Composition : Dieter Hinrichs and Sebastian Venus
Stage design: Michael Olsen and Oliver Herbolzheimer

Oldenburg 2000

Helsinki 2001

Directed by: Tine Madsen

Stage design: Michael Olsen

While Erika Kellermann waits, she tells her way from life to a fall to severe disability to suicide.
What is a dignified life? Who determines who feels this dignity? What makes a human life? Apparently small events change lives and relationships. Why do these events happen?
Sensitively, "freely dead" pursues these and other questions.
The monologue is based on a report by Oliver Link and quotes parts of a report by Sabine Döbel from Stern magazine. The names of all the people and places involved have been changed. In addition to the use of facts, the monologue also originates from the fantasy of the author Lars Wernecke.
to be.

The stage design is the same as for 'silence of death'. This fact is exceptionally not responsible for the general financial distress, but was planned from the outset, because both pieces belong to the content of an overarching concept. With this premiere, Theater k expands the discussion about living and dying with and in dignity initiated by 'silence of death'.

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Directed by: Markus Spitzauer
Performers: Franziska Vondrlik and Roger Döring
Music and instruments: Roger Döring
Costumes: Cordelia Wach and Regine Meinardus
Stage: Michael Olsen
Technology and Light: Norman Hellbusch
Production management: Hanna Schroeder

Directed by: Tine Madsen
Ensemble of the Kulturetage Oldenburg
Idea/draft: Tine Madsen
Execution: Michael Olsen
2000

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10 October 2011

Theater k. Kulturetage Oldenburg

He returns once again to report, relive and contemplate. In doing so, he comes across limits, encounters silence, hope, consolation and understanding in addition to companions and can even laugh in the later-experienced top view.
‘Theater k’ is addressing a topic that is gaining increasing public attention through the hospice movement, palliative care and euthanasia.
Despite the seriousness, the piece approaches the subject with humor, ‘because
without laughter no crying and without crying no laughing", say the ensemble members.

The set design is the same as for 'Freitot'. This fact is exceptionally not responsible for the general financial distress, but was planned from the outset, because both pieces belong to the content of an overarching concept. With this premiere, Theater k expands the discussion about living and dying with and in dignity initiated by ›Sterbensschweigen‹.

Link to production Silence with more photos and information

With: Markus Weiß and Roger Döring
Directed by: Markus Weiß
Music: Roger Döring
Equipment: Regine Meinardus
Stage: Michael Olsen

Widu theatre

Directed by: Stephanie Grau

Commissioned production for the 650th anniversary of the city of Oldenburg

Stage design: Michael Olsen and Oliver Herbolzheimer

1995

2009

Theater k at the Kulturetage

1913 in Flims, a wonderful summer day in the Engadine. Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, both packed with backpacks, walk scientifically amused through the healthy mountain world. When Albert Marie once again declares that time travel is impossible, it happens: Marie Curie smiles and both find themselves in Oldenburg. In the theater k. In 2009.

Unbelievable things have happened: Marie, described by Albert as a ‘hard soul, poor in all joy and pain’, smiled and time was travelled without a seat reservation. Mr. Einstein must have made a double mistake.What the two geniuses make of this situation and what the people behind the physical formulas look like can be experienced in a poetic and humorous way in the theatre.

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Book and Direction: Mark Spitzauer. With: Franziska Vondrlik and Markus Weiß. Production management: Hanna Schroeder. Equipment: Regine Meinardus. Stage: Michael Olsen. Mask: Uta Blümer and Alexandra Pereira. Technique: Norman Hellbusch. About 70 minutes, no pause.

With support and within the framework of: The day after tomorrow Oldenburg, City of Science 2009.

Georg Kreisler

2010

Theater k, Kulturetage Oldenburg

The no longer baptizing academic and the single mother take you on the classic course of partner life: From the first rendezvous to the first kiss and the first night to the encrusted, treacherous marriage routine.

The well-known cabaret artist and satirist Georg Kreisler arranges everything to the 11. Bid under: I don't want you to love!
Lothar and Sonja love and quarrel in a unique way through the most famous love themes of classical music from Bach, Beethoven, Mahler to Mozart and Rossini and many more ...

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With: Franziska Vondrlik, Markus Weiß; Musical direction and piano: Let Dinter; Directed by: Mark Spitzauer; Costumes: Regine Meinardus; Stage design: Anja Quentin, Michael Olsen; Technique: Norman Hellbusch; Production management: Hanna Schroeder.

Cultural floor Oldenburg

City of Oldenburg for the Year of Science 2009

Direction/text: Ulf Goerges
Dramaturgy: Cordelia Wach ·
Production management: Hanna Schroeder
Project management: Mirko Noff ke
Stage design: Anja Quentin and Michael Olsen
Construction and artistic implementation: Michael Olsen / Artistic buildings
Technical management: Hartmut Lanje
Costume design: Regine Meinardus, Cordelia Wach ·
Directed by: Mark Spitzauer
Video animation: Andreas Etter
Photos: Bernhard Weber-Meinardus
Assistant director: Alexandra Hemme
Equipment assistance: Christina Wille
Evening performance management: Jörg Hemmen
Artistic overall management: Bernt Wach

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A play based on texts by Horst Stern as part of the exhibition ‘Kaiser Friedrich II., Welt und Kultur des mediterraneraumes’ at the Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch, Oldenburg

The last hours of a great powerful man. Abandoned by friends, despised, banished and reviled as heretics. Betrayed by his own son, betrayed by the closest adviser, a broken ruler, consumed by constant wars and ill. He is ahead of his time by epochs, promoter of science and art, poet and scholar, mediator between the Orient and the Occident, perhaps the first European ever! This man of action knows that he will not leave this camp. He, the most powerful of the princes of the world, 'The wonder and the transformer of the world', will die. And he's still tormented by questions he hasn't found answers to. Questions of a Roman-German emperor, King of Sicily and Jerusalem, first to God about the true nature of men and animals, the true doves and the fear of the other.

Questions that still move us, to which we also cannot find answers.

Concept and direction: Bernt Wach. Performers: Markus Weiß (Friedrich II), Ulf Goerges (Berard of Castacca / Archbishop of Palermo), Jörg Hemmen (servant). Costumes: Regine Meinardus. Stage design / graphic design: Bernhard Weber-Meinardus, version: Bernhard Weber-Meinardus, Michael Olsen, music: Kai Leinweber. Film recordings / film editing: Frank Bekurs. Technique: Hartmut Lanje and Jörg Hemmen. Production management: Hanna Schroeder.

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A dinner: The 55th. A woman's birthday.

The guests: The companions of the departure into alternative worlds 25 years ago. The band is already tuning the instruments, a catering service will take care of the physical well-being. Who will appear? What happened to the rebels back then? What about the wild dreams of self-determination and freedom, of ‘otherness’ beyond the established paths?

A musical theatre evening that takes place with irony and poetry in the time when the ‘free scene’ began to change society.

Play it: Franziska Vondrlik, Uwe Bergeest. Music: Martin Flindt and Kai Leinweber
Directed by: Mark Spitzauer
Stage design: Michael Olsen
Costumes: Cordelia Wach.

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Autumn 2012
Cultural floor Oldenburg
Ensemble Theater k at the Kulturetage

Quote:
Based on the scenario of a flood disaster, author and director Mark Spitzauer develops a farce of a particularly mean kind: Their hopeless situation tries to escape two couples by each emigrating into their own quirk: Paula (Franziska Vondrlik) into madness, Hermann (Markus Weiß) into macho sex, Serena (Katrin Pachel) into brutal realism and Roland (Uwe Bergeest) into upper-teacher actionism.

The farce of this farce: Not only do the four have no chance, they are also puppets. Their fate is almost predetermined by the mermaid – perhaps also sea witch – Noah (played by Natascha Czichon), who shows them the way to the wet sinking in eight elevators.

A theatre event with true depth: What sometimes becomes an oppressive, but often hilarious grotesque for the viewer is hard work for the five actors. Their use often goes to the brink of physical exhaustion, without their art of representation suffering as a result.

But this is not the only reason why the premiere audience was amazed: Thanks to the work of Bernhard Weber-Meinardus and Michael Olsen, the unadorned hall of Theater k has been transformed into a unique stage: On a total of four levels on two floors, equipped with hundreds of equipment details, the figures of this inspiring staging fight against the inevitable outcome.
End of quotation (Klaus Fricke, NWZ)

Link to a press article in the Oldenburg daily newspaper NWZ

Text and direction: Mark Spitzauer
Performers: Markus Weiß, Franziska Vondrlik, Natascha Czichon, Uwe Bergeest, Katrin Pachel
Technique: Norman Hellbusch
Stage: Michael Olsen and Bernhard Weber-Meinardus

Scene pictures

Christian (Uwe Bergeest, Oldenburg) Serena (Kathrin Pachel, Braunschweig) Hermann (Markus Weiß, Oldenburg) Paula (Franziska, Vondrlik, Oldenburg)

Serena (Kathrin Pachel, Braunschweig)

The "bicycle ship", which I designed, constructed and built for the production "Odyssee" of the Kulturetage for this year's Kultursommer.
Here you can see a version with 12 "rowing" seats for the theater guests.
In front sits Jason, the helmsman. Behind him, sitting against the direction of travel, Odysseus, who tells of his adventures.
Built from bicycle frame of the company Mifa-Biria (model Post-Bike "Swing")
The ship can be extended almost endlessly. It consists of a headboard and individual "body" links, similar to a worm, which can be hung one behind the other by means of towbars and balls. As a result, it is movable like a centipede and requires a turning circle of only about 5 m in diameter!!!
(Draft and design are patent pending)

Idea: Anja Quentin

Link to the homepage of the Kulturetage, some photos of the bicycle ship

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