Der Teufel im Lift

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Strange things happen in the lobby of the HOTEL HEAVEN. At five in the morning, three guests meet unexpectedly and by chance, but is there such a thing: coincidence? While the internationally sought-after brain specialist Prof. Feininger encounters a "light-seer" named Blanche during check-out, the young journalist Raquel is stuck in the elevator. As soon as she is freed, it becomes clear that this elevator has a lot to offer. Especially a dead man, who falls into the lobby with glistening light and Bachian sounds. What is it about this dead man that transforms the night and sends a perplexed doorman and his guests into surreal dreams, encounters, longings and fears? Is this dead man a fallen angel, a Lucifer, or the devil, as the cantatas say? Thus begins an erratic game that brings all four night characters to personal limits, where the great questions of meaning, faith, death, transience and futility lurk - mirrored, played around and commented on by the timeless music and deep spirituality of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. And since these questions touch us all, the Night at the Hotel also invites its theater guests to sing along (only those who want to, of course). In the end, everyone finds themselves back in the same place... at the same time at five in the morning. Only now no one is like before.

WITH

Elias Arranz, Frieda Jolande Barck, Johannes Wieners, Christian Pohlers und Claudia Renner and the musicians of lautten compagney with Andreas Pfaff / Javier Aquilar Bruno (violin I), Julia Prigge (violin II), Ulrike Becker / Jule Hinrichsen / Aleke Alpermann (violoncello), Ulrike Paetz / Chang-Yun Yoo (viola), Annette Rheinfurth / Johannes Ragg (double bass), Max Hattwich / Thor-Harald Johnsen (lute), Ulrike Ködding / Yu Ma (traverso), Eduard Wesly / Martin Jelev (oboe), Helen Barsby / Bill Forman (trumpet), Sabina Chukorova / Daniel Trumbull / Walewein Witten (cembalo/organ), Axel Meier / Peter Bauer / Peter Kuhnsch (percussion)

ARRANGEMENTS AND MUSICAL DIRECTION Wolfgang Katschner INSTRUCTION Ansgar Weigner DESIGN Jürgen Kirner IDEA AND DRAMATURGY Bernhard Glocksin

lautten compagney Berlin

Next date:

• Date Wednesday, 27/November/2024 20:00 (18 more dates)
• Venue Neuköllner Oper - Saal/Studio
• Address Karl-Marx-Straße 131, 12043 Berlin-Neukölln