November 2007 25th Next Wave Festival

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman William I. Campbell Chairman of the Board Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins Joseph V. Melillo President Executive Producer presents Lulu

Approximate BAM Harvey Theater running time: Nov 27,29,30, and Dec 1, 2007 at 7:30pm one hour and 50 minutes, By Frank Wedekind no intermission Thalia Theater, Hamburg Directed by Michael Thalheimer

Set design by Olaf Altmann Costume design by Barbara Drosihn Music by Bert Wrede Video design by Alexander du Prel Lighting design by Stefan Bolliger

Premiere-February 28, 2004

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Additional support for Lulu is provided by Goethe-Institut New York. Lulu

LULU by Frank Wedekind

"I would so have liked, for a little while, to have loved along the way. "

Cast Lulu Fritzi Haberlandt Dr. Franz Sch6ning Norman Hacker Alwa Sch6ning Felix Knopp Dr. Goll Christoph Bantzer Schigolch Markus Graf Eduard Schwarz Hans Low Grafin von Geschwitz Maren Eggert Rodrigo Quast Peter Moltzen Casti-Piani Helmut Mooshammer Mr. Hopkins Christoph Bantzer Kungu-Poti Andreas Dahler Dr. Hilti Harald Weiler Jack Michael Benthin

Additional Production Credits Dramaturgy Sonja Anders Director's Assistant Max Claessen Designer's Assistant Julia Borchert Stage Manager Corinna Fussbach Prompter Antje Kreusch Make-up Julia Wilms Costumes Ann-Katrin Mohr, Christian Pursch Sound Florian Scheunemann Props Thomas Borner , Uli Hinderer Stage Oliver Canis Lighting Olaf Stammerjohann Sound Stefan Hartung, Wilfried Herdejiirgen Stage Machinery Arno Kersten Workshop Management Thomas Mundt Paint Shop Marten Voigt Carpentry Peter Bruns Metalwork Peter Biittner Upholstery Michael Breiholz Costume Painting Klaudia Noltensmeyer Production Management Thoralf Kunze Technical Design Andreas Dietz Technical Management Uwe Barkhahn , Oliver Canis

The performers' make-up was supplied by CHANEL. Lulu

LULU BY FRANK WEDEKIND V. Lulu's last stop is London, where she shacks I. Lulu is in love with an older man , Dr. Goli. up with Alwa, Schigolch, and the Countess He commissions a portrait of her, but when he Geschwitz in a garret and prostitutes herself. finds her in bed with the artist Schwarz, he dies She brings four tricks back to the loft with her. of a heart attack. The last one is Jack the Ripper.

II. Lulu has married Schwarz. She is visited by MICHAEL THALHEIMER IN CONVERSATION her "father," Schigolch , who begs her for money. ABOUT LULU BY FRANK WEDEKIND Her lover Dr. Sch6ning wishes to end their long­ Lulu cannot be understood through a pre­ term relationship in order to marry well. When conceived image. She resists prefabricated Schwarz finds out that Lulu had not married expectations; she is erratic and reacts frankly him as a virgin, he cuts his own throat. to each situation. However, during the course of the play, the more conflicting reactions she III. Lulu has married Sch6ning and is adored has, the closer she comes to losing herself. In by the Countess Geschwitz. Tirelessly, she car­ the fourth act she herself becomes the offending ries on affairs with, among others, Sch6ning's party. She flees to London where she wa lks the son Alwa and the performer Rodrigo Quast. streets. But it is difficult to appraise her even as Sch6ning discovers this and tries to persuade a prostitute. She remains ambivalent because her to shoot herself. But Lulu shoots Sch6ning she sells herself on her own terms. For me it is instead. in this ambivalence in which lies the quality of the character created by Wedekind. IV. Lulu, Alwa, Rodrigo Quast, Schigolch, and the Countess Geschwitz have flown to Paris, This author is a very great exception. Schnitzler where Lulu is blackmailed by Casti Piani, a and Lessing, for example, write often about white slave trader--either he will report her to women as victims of society. I believe however the police or sell her to a bordello. that Lulu refuses to become a victim from the very start. She fights her own battle; she keeps her own counsel. Jj Who's Who

All men fall short, where Lulu is concerned, 1891-Fruhlingserwachen (Spring Awakening). There is the painter Schwarz , who loves her Only fifteen years later would this work, under beyond all measure but must realize that his the direction of Max Reinhardt, be performed dreamed-up image of her cannot last. So he under heavy censorship, can think of nothing better than to cut his own throat. Schoning, who is together with Lulu the 1891-95-Wedekind lives in Paris and for a longest, fails utterly in his marriage to her. He short while in London, Thrilled by Paris, its art­ becomes a morphine addict and loses his ardor, ists and its nightlife, he begins, during the sum­ Soon there is nothing left between them except mer of 1892, to work on his earliest version of an empty contract, but that is not what Lulu is Die Buchse der Pandora, Eine Monstretrag6die searching for. And so her search continues-all (Pandora's Box, A monstretragedy). . the way to Jack the Ripper, 1895- Wedekind returns to Germany, He makes WEDEKIND-FACTS ABOUT HIS LIFE unsuccessful attempts to find producers for his AND WORK dramatic works, The adaptation of the Monster Wedekind exists outside of society, almost Tragedy into its four-act version Der Erdgeist outside of the world, He paints his world in soft, (The Earth Spirit) is published. strange distortions; nevertheless its true being shines through, Imperceptibly he shifts the lines, From 1896--contributes to the satirical maga­ but his creations remain genuine, And when zine Simplicissimus, they become jumbled, when they shed a weird light on tragic relationships, then the game of 1898-Erdgeist opens in Leipzig, Wedekind this unpitying life becomes recognizable as the plays the role of Dr, Schon under the pseudonym game it is, Here, one can appreciate a rare vision Heinrich Kammerer. Employment as an actor of a total isolation, and dramaturg at the Schauspielhaus in Munich -Alfred Kerr, 1905 follows,

On July 24, 1864, Benjamin Franklin Wede­ 1902-A new version of the previously unpub­ kind, the second of six children to Dr. Friedrich lished fourth and fifth acts of Pandora 's Box is Wilhelm , MD, born 1816, and singer Emilie presented, with the addition of a further act as a Wedekind, born 1840, sees the light of day, His sequel to The Earth Spirit, parents met as German immigrants in America, Frank Wedekind , like them, receives US citizen­ February I , 1904-Pandora's Box opens at ship, From 1872 the family lives in the canton of Das Intime Theater in Nurnberg, For reasons of Aarau in Switzerland, where the senior Wedekind censorship it is declared a private performance, has acquired Schloss Lenzburg as a family prop­ In March the play appears in book form and is erty, Wedekind begins writing at an early age, immediately impounded,

1879-Der Hanseken, a children's story written 1905-A private performance of Pandora 'S Box for his sister, as well as mostly parodist poetry by Karl Kraus is given in Vienna with young and scenes for his own recitation at school. actress Tilly Newes as Lulu , Adele Sandrock as Geschwitz, and Wedekind as Jack the Ripper, 1884-School graduation, Following his father's This performance was attended by Alban Berg, wishes, he begins to study law in Munich, who was later to write the opera Lulu,

1888- His father dies, Through his inheritance 1906-Marriage to Tilly Newes. First Wedekind he is initially independent. Works as a writer in cycle at the Munchner Schauspielhaus with Munich and Berlin, Frank and Tilly Wedekind in leading roles, Birth Who's Who

of daughter Pamela. Musik .

1911-Birth of daughter Kadidja .

1912-14-Six-volume edition pub­ lished by Verlag Georg Muller.

1914-Many honors for his 50th birthday. First appendix ailment.

1917-Tilly Wedekind attempts su icide.

March 9, 1918-Frank Wedekind dies in Munich due to complications result­ ing from an appendectomy.

LULU and PANDORA'S BOX­ CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT Lulu should be played as a wild gro­ tesque; as an exaggerated, bloody farce; as an excitingly risible satanic ritual; in short as a hellish amusement, and not as an ea rth Iy tragedy. -Alfred Polgar, 1912 Cassirer, was impounded by the office of the Frank Wedekind wrote his initial five-act version public prosecutor and both Wedekind and his of Lulu between 1892 and 1894 as the outcome publisher were charged with the ci rcul ation of of his journeys to Pari s and London. He initially obscenities. Despite their acquittal at their trial named his work Pandora's Box. A Monstretrag­ before the Berlin District Court in 1905 and edy (sic). His publishers did not wish to risk 1906, the destruction of all remaining cop- releasing the final two acts-the Parisian scenes ies of the work was ordered . A revised version and Lulu's life as a prostitute in London with the was published by Cassirer in Berlin 1906, an appearance by Jack the Ripper. Wedekind then author's adaptation for the stage by Georg Muller rewrote the play and split it into two parts. In in 1910-11. Only with the publication in 1913 1895 he published the first part, which included under the title Lulu would both parts be united in the story up to the murder of Dr. Schon, much . a five-act double-tragedy-revised and smoothed altered and with the addition of a further act, over many times by Wedekind himself to escape under the title The Earth Spirit. censorship. A result of the Berlin verdict was that the play could only be performed in the 1906 or During the winter of 1900-01 Wedekind added the 1910-11 version. The original unmutilated a new act to the two remaining unpublished version of Wedekind's Pandora's Box as found acts of his original version. This drama received in the author's estate, finally received its first the original title Pandora 's Box. Tragedy in performance under the direction of Peter Zadek at Three Acts and appeared in 1902 as pre-print the Hamburg Schauspielhaus in 1988. in the magazine Die Insel. The book version, which was published in 1904 by Verlag Bruno Who's Who

Michael Thalheimer (director) was born in in spring 2006, the prestigious Russian "Golden Frankfurt, Germany, and began drama studies Mask" Award. in Bern, Switzerland, in 1985. As an actor he worked at various theaters in Bern, Mainz, Thalheimer, who made his successful opera Bremerhaven , and Chemnitz. He made his debut with Leos Janacek's Katja Kabanova at directing debut in 1997, staging Fernando Berlin's Staatsoper in January 2005, followed Arrabal 's The Architect and the Emperor of by Rigoletto at the Theater Basel in Switzerland , Assyria at the Theater Chemnitz. Word spread is also a frequent guest director at the Salzburg quickly about the talented newcomer, and Festival , the Vienna International Theatre soon he was directing productions at renowned Festival , and other international festivals . Guest theaters in Basel (Switzerland), Leipzig, and performances of his productions have been Freiburg (Germany). staged worldwide, such as in New York, Moscow, Belgrade, Rome, Bogota , Mexico City, Tokyo, His big breakthrough came in the year 2000 with Strasbourg, Prague, Kiev, Rennes, Stockholm, Molnar's Liliom at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Dublin, Winterthur, Madrid , Vienna, Budapest, and the family drama The Celebration at the Bolzano, and Oslo. Dresden Playhouse. His ruthlessly minimalist version of Molnar's Liliom and his sensitive stage Following his highly successful 2004 staging of adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's Dogme film Faust: The Tragedy's First Part, his production The Celebration (Das Fest) clearly illustrated of Goethe's Faust: The Tragedy 's Second Part Thalheimer's particular interest in people and opened in October 2005 at the DT. In 2005, their relationships. In 2001, both productions Thalheimer also directed O'Neill's Long Day's were invited to Berlin's Theatertreffen , a festival Journey Into Night at the Thalia Theater highlighting the year's best German-language Hamburg, as well as Hauptmann's Rose Bernd productions. Liliom was also invited to Vienna's in spring 2006, followed by Oresteia and Jon Festwochen in 2002. Thalheimer's staging of Fosse's Sleep, both at the Deutsches Theater Arthur Schnitzler's Light 0' Love (Liebelei) for Berlin. the Thalia Theater (2003) also played at the Theatertreffen, as well as his version of Frank In March 2007, Thalheimer's production of Wedekind's Lulu in 2005, and his Oresteia by Brecht's Puntila and Matti, His Hired Man Aeschylus at Deutsches Theater Berlin (DT) in opened at the Tha lia Theater Hamburg, and in 2007. April 2007, The Bat by Johann Strauss at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. His latest production, Thalheimer's productions are performed regularly The Rats by Gerhart Hauptmann , had a highly at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the successful opening on Oct 6,2007. Deutsches Theater in Berlin. He made his DT debut in 2001 with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Thalheimer lives and works in Berlin. Since the Emilia Gaiotti (BAM 2005 Next Wave Festival), beginning of the 2005-06 season, he has been followed by Chekhov's Three Sisters and Head Director and a member of the Artistic Board Hauptmann's Lonely Lives. at the Deutsches Theater Berlin.

His stagings have won numerous awards, such as the Innovation Award from the German public television station 3Sat for Liliom. His production of Emilia Gaiotti earned Thalheimer the Friedrich Luft Prize (awarded to Berlin's most outstanding production of the year), the Nestroy Prize (Vienna's most prestigious theater prize), and, Who's Who

Fritzi Haberlandt (Lulu) was born in 1975 in Berlin. Important productions include: Main character in Lulu by F. Wedekind, director M. Thalheimer Lucille in Dantons Tad by G. Buchner, director Robert Wilson Franziska in Minna von Barnhelm by G.E. Lessing, director Tilmann Gersch Natascha in Nachtasyl by M. Gorki, director Andreas Kriegenburg Julie in Uiiom by F. Molnar, director M. Thalheimer Rosa in Fight. City, Vineta by F. Kater, director Armin Petras Luise Miller in Kabale und Liebe by F. Schiller, director M. Thalheimer Mitzi in Liebelei by A. Schnitzler, director M. Thalheimer Charlotte in Leiden des Jungen Werthers by Goethe, director Jan Bosse

Awards: Deutscher Filmpreis, 2004 Bayerischer Filmpreis, 2000 Theater Heute, 2000 & 2001 Boy-Gobert-Preis, 2001 Alfred-Kerr-Darstellerpreis, 2003

Haberlandt has been recently invited to the In Thalia's repertory are old and new classics of Berliner Theatertreffen 2007 for the production theater, including Shakespeare, Schiller, Goethe, Leiden des Jungen Werthers. Haberlandt lives Brecht, Gorky, Miller, Moliere, Sartre, Williams, and works in Berlin. as well as contemporary authors like Dea Loher, Elfriede Jelinek, Lukas Barfuss, Moritz Rinke, The Thalia Theater is one of the oldest theaters and Fritz Kater. Directors as Peter Sellars, Ruth in Germany and one of the three state theaters Berghaus, Robert Wilson, Tomaz E. Pandur, An­ in Hamburg. It was founded by Cherie Maurice dreas Kriegenburg, and Michael Thalheimer have in November 1843 and is now in its 164th worked at the Thalia Theater. season. Professor Ulrich Khuon became director of the Thalia Theater in the 2000-01 season. Recently the Thalia Theater was elected "Theater The Thalia Theater has a permanent ensemble of the Year 2007" by the German journal Theater with 40 actors. There are about 20 plays in its heute and its jury of theater critics. repertory, alternating daily or in short runs. In the main theater, which has 1000 seats, there are Thalia Theater productions have had performanc­ usually nine premieres each season, and an ad­ es throughout Europe and internationally in Hong ditional eight are presented in the studio theater Kong; New York; Rio de Janeiro; Seoul, Korea; on GauBstraBe. This sma ller theater has 180 and Bogota , Columbia . seats and is located in a building complex with rehearsal stages.