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HEINER GOEBBELS Stifters Dinge THÉÂTRE VIDY-LAUSANNE AV. E.-H. JAQUES-DALCROZE 5 CH-1007 LAUSANNE Direction production and touring Caroline Barneaud Mail: [email protected] In charge of the project Elizabeth Gay Mail: [email protected] T +41 (0)21 619 45 22 P +41 (0)79 278 05 93 Skype: elizabethgay HEINER GOEBBELS Stifters Dinge Stifters Dinge © Mario Del Curto HEINER GOEBBELS STIFTERS DINGE 2 Création DISTRIBUTION à Vidy Conception, music and direction : Heiner Goebbels Set design, light and video : Klaus Grünberg Musical collaboration/programming : Hubert Machnik Sound design : Willi Bopp Artistic collaboration : Matthias Mohr TEAM TOUR Stage Manager : Nicolas Pilet Light technician : Roby Carruba Mattias Bovard Video : Jérôme Vernez Stéphane Janvier René Liebert Robotic : Thierry Kaltenrieder Sound design : Willi Bopp Sound Ludovic Guglielmazzi Musical supervision : Matthias Mohr Assistant stage manager : Jean-Daniel Buri Fabio Gaggetta Tour Manager : Sylvain Didry Production : Théâtre de Vidy Coproduction : spielzeit’europa – Berliner Festspiele – Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg – schauspielfrankfurt – T&M-Théâtre de Gennevilliers/CDN – Pour-cent culturel Migros – Teatro Stabile di Torino Corealisation : Artangel London With the support of : Pro Helvetia - Fondation suisse pour la culture Duration : 1h10 Creation on September 13th 2007 at Théâtre de Vidy HEINER GOEBBELS STIFTERS DINGE 3 PRÉSENTATION ”Stifter’s Things” is a composition for five pianos with no pianists, a play with no actors, a perfor- mance without performers – one might say a no-man show. First and foremost, it is an invitation to audiences to enter a fascinating space full of sounds and images, an invitation to see and hear. It revolves around awareness of things, things that in the theatre are often part of the set or act as props and play a merely illustrative role. Here they become protagonists: light, pictures, murmurs, sounds, voices, wind and mist, water and ice. As the title suggests, this work touches on the texts of Adalbert Stifter, an early 19th century ro- mantic author, whose reputation for Biedermeier convention is misleading. Stifter writes with the same eye for detail as an artist paints and if the plots of his stories appears to mark time because of the painstaking (and at first sight, boring) descriptions of Natural History, it is but proof of his respect for Things: such passages force the reader to slow down and become aware of each detail – as if anyone wishing to approach the text first has to make his way through the forest on his quest. Things and matter tell their own story, whereas the characters are often just poked into the weave and are in no way sovereign subjects of their stories. The contemporary and radical aspects of Stifter’s work show through the deliberate slowing down and ritualised repetitions and are of particular significance to today’s reader. “Stifter’s Things” is inspired by his writing process without seeking to stage his stories or the objects that he described. The performance/installation (lasting about 80 minutes) takes his text as a confrontation with the unknown and the forces that man does not master, as a plea for the readiness to adopt other criteria and judgements than our own and even as an opportunity to come to terms with unfamiliar cultural references, particularly in the domain of ecological disasters, which Stifter already envisaged with his usual eye for detail. Stifters Dinge © Mario Del Curto HEINER GOEBBELS STIFTERS DINGE 4 HEINER GOEBBELS omposer, director, born on August 17, 1952, in Neustadt/Weinstrasse, senschaft» University Giessen. 1997/98 guest professor at «Mu- lives since 1972 in Frankfurt/Main. He studied sociology and music. sikhochschule Karlsruhe - Kompositionsklasse». While doing several record productions and many concerts with the From April 1999 on, Heiner Goebbels works as a professor (and from Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester (76-81), the Goebbels/ 2003 until 2011 as a managing director) at the Institute for Applied Harth-Duo (76-88) and the art-rock-trio Cassiber (82-92), he wrote Theatre Studies of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Germany). at the same time theatre music (for Hans Neuenfels, Claus Peymann, He is in charge of several seminars and artistic projects, as well as Matthias Langhoff, Ruth Berghaus and others), film music (for Helke cooperative projects with the students of international institutions Sander, Dubini Brothers, and many others) and ballet music (for the (in Italy, France, Austria, Denmark, Netherlands etc) . The institute Ballet Frankfurt). inhabits professional rehearsal stages and is equiped with several audio and video studios. The institute is as well dedicated to scientific In the middle of the 80s he began composing and directing audio plays research as to artistic practice (contemporary theatre and performance) of his own, most of them based on texts by Heiner Müller «Waste and especially to the possibilities of linking both. Shore», «The liberation of Prometheus», «Volokolamsk Highway», Schliemanns Radio, Der Horatier/Roman Dogs/Chiens Romains Since then he is widely engaged to advance the conditions and struc- and others. tures of contemporary theatre education being a cofounder of several cooperative structures like the Hessian Theatre Academy, the Hessian After the staged concerts «Man in the Elevator» 1987, Die Befreiung Film- and Media Academy, tanzlabor_21 and Frankfurt LAB. He also «The liberation of Prometheus»1991 and the concert for dancers «Tears works in several boards for upcoming experimental artists. of the fatherland», together with Christoph Nel/Ballet Frankfurt, 1986, he created together with Michael Simon the music theatre pieces In 2002 Heiner Goebbels premiered his first opera «Landschaft mit Newtons Casino in 1990 and «Roman Dogs» in 1991 at the TAT in entfernten Verwandten / Paysage avec parents éloignés / Landscape Frankfurt. with distant relatives». In the context of his 50th birthday Heiner Since 1988 Heiner Goebbels composes chamber music for the Goebbels released his first book «Komposition als Inszenierung». Also Ensemble Modern «Red Run», «Befreiung», «La Jalousie» and the ECM released a CD of Eislermaterial. Ensemble Intercontemporain «Herakles 2». In 2003 Heiner Goebbels premiered his orchestra piece «From A Dia- In 1994 followed Surrogate Cities, a 90 minutes composition for big ry» as a comission of the Berlin Philharmonics / conductor Sir Simon orchestra commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt and performed by Rattle. In this season the Berlin Philharmonics performed ten concerts the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, conductor: Peter Rundel. 1996, as with the music of Heiner Goebbels: two performances of «Surrogate a commision for Donaueschingen, he composed Industry & Idleness Cities» in Lausanne and Berlin and many following concerts of «From (premiere by Radiokamerorkest Hilversum, conductor: Peter Eotvos). A Diary» in Salzburg, London, New York, San Francisco and others. Walden for extended orchestra was created in 1998 for the first tour of the newly founded Ensemble Modern Orchestra (conductor: Peter In 2004 he premiered his music theatre piece called «Eraritjaritjaka - Eotvos). museé des phrases» after words by Elias Canetti with the actor André Wilms and the Mondriaan String Quartett at the Theatre Vidy-Lau- Invitations to nearly all major theatre-, new music-, jazz- and perfor- sanne, which has been awarded with 7 theatre pirzes and performed ming arts -festivals and tourings with all his ensembles, the productions more than 125 times worldwide. for stage and the portrait concerts of the Ensemble Modern got him to Since 2006 Heiner Goebbels is President of the Theatre Academy more than 50 countries in the last 30 years. About 20 CD productions Hessen have been published. In 2007 he premiered at Theatre Vidy-Lausanne the performative In 1993 the music theatre pièce «Ou bien le débarquement désas- installation «Stifters Dinge» - a music theatre producion without per- treux» (Or the hapless landing) was directed by himself in Paris. In formers, musicians or actors. After the first show at the coproducing 1995 his music theatre piece «Die Wiederholung» (The Repetition, La institutions in lausanne, berlin, luxembourg and frankfurt this piece is Reprise - based upon motifs by Kierkegaard, Robbe-Grillet and Prince) touring worldwide and had already more than 250 performances. A CD was created in Frankfurt (Theater am Turm). His music theatre piece of Stifters Dinge will be released by ecm records in 2012. In 2007 also «Schwarz auf Weiss» (Black on White) was created at the TAT Frank- the staged concert «Songs of Wars I have seen has been» composed for furt in 1996 for 18 musicians of the Ensemble Modern. It was filmed the London Sinfonietta and the Orchestra in the Age of Enlightenment, for Arte, recorded for BMG and the SWF and is still being shown in London - with words by Gertrude Stein. Europe and overseas. In 1997 he participated in the Documenta X in Kassel with his musical In 2008 he premiered his latest music theatre production «I went to theatre sketch Landscape with man being killed by a snake (September the house but did not enter» on the Edinburgh International Festival, 97) and he created the music theatre piece Schliemann’s Scaffolding with the Hilliard Ensemble and Texts by T.S.Eliot, Maurice Blanchot in Athens and Volos (September/October 97). The music theatre piece and Samuel Beckett. «Max Black» with Andre Wilms premiered in April 1998 in Theatre Vidy- Lausanne, and together with the Ensemble Modern he created a In 2007/2008 he was fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berin tribute to Hanns Eislers’ 100th anniversary called «Eislermaterial» - a (Institute for advanced studies) staged concert which was first shown in Munich in May 1998. In 2010 artist in residence of the Cornell University, Ithaca, USA. In 2000 Heiner Goebbels composed the sound installations «Timeios» and «Fin de Soleil» for the centre Pompidou in Paris, the music theatre 2012 awarded with the International Ibsen Award by the Norwegian piece «Hashirigaki» in Theatre Vidy-Lausanne and the staged concert Government - and with a Honorary Doctorate by the Birmingham «...même soir».- with Les Percussions de Strasbourg.
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