Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert:
Im Weissen Rössl am Central Park
Im Weissen Rössl am Central Park
The Singspiel Im Weißen Rössl (1930) is the blue print for Heimat in German revue theatre - and was banned by the Nazis. In numerous productions by Europeans in exile, however, it continued to exist in New York, as in the adaptation by Jimmy Berg, who processed his own experiences of flight. Johannes Müller and Philine Rinnert have developed an evening of music theatre from this material, which was premiered in April 2019. Instead of a revival, the research material has now been turned into an audio play, because the musical part of the evening is exactly the kind of music that was heard in the early heyday of radio. Thus, the audio play uses the very personal story of a cultural transformation to lead us into an associative space of lost entertainment history, Jewish-German flight experience and the dazzling reinvention of home.
ConCEPt, DIRECTOR Johannes Müller, Philine Rinnert Arrangements, Musical director Misha Cvijovic WITH Sarai Cole, Hauke Heumann, Dominik Kleinen, Ulrike Schwab, Shlomi Moto Wagner und Jochen Carls (Bass), Misha Cvijovic (Klavier), Paul Hübner (Trompete), Sabrina Ma (Percussion), Lixue-Lin Siedler (Koto) ADDITIONAL TEXTS Daniel Sauermilch SOUND, CUT Torben Utecht ProduCtion ehrliche arbeit - freies Kulturbüro Special thanks to Susanne Korbel, Boris Priebe, Veronika Zwerger, Claudia Gehringer, Trude and Franz Berg
A production by Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert in co-production with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe.
Using lyrics from Das weisse Rössl am Central Park, The White Horse Rides again (lyrics by Jimmy Berg) and individual song poems from Jimmy Berg's estate. With the kind permission of the Exile Library Vienna and Trude Berg and using excerpts from Im weißen Rössl - Singspiel in three acts freely based on the play by Blumenthal and Kadelburg by Hans Müller and Erik Charell, vocal texts by Robert Gilbert, music by Ralph Benatzky, six musical interludes by Robert Gilbert, Bruno Granichstaedten and Robert Stolz. Rights: Verlag Felix-Bloch-Erben
Further sources:
Programme booklet of the premiere in 1930 by courtesy of the Benatzky family. The material can be found in the Artists' Archive/Personal Holdings Ralph Benatzky in the Archive of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Mimi Grossberg interviewt Jimmy Berg, digitalisation of a cassette recording with kind permission of the Austrian Exile Library in the Literaturhaus Vienna and Gertrude Berg.
Interview mit Gertrude Berg - Leo Baeck Institute Archive (2013, Interviewer: A. Burger),
LIFE and the Refugees, article from Aufbau with kind permission of Aufbau-Archiv, JM Jüdische Medien AG, Zurich
Extract from the text Der Kaiser kommt - Kontext und Politik im Weißen Rößl by Wolfgang Drechsler and Ingbert Edenhofer, published in Im weißen Rößl - Kulturgeschichtliche Perspektiven, 2016, Waxmann Verlag.
Johannes Müller / Philine Rinnert develop music theatre hybrids that focus on the past of opera, its effects and techniques, but which are also an archaeology of the present, of entertainment and queer culture. For their work Reading Salomé they received the jury prize at the Favoriten Festival 2016. In 2019 they were invited to Impulse Theater Festival with White Limozeen. www.johannesmueller.eu | www.philinerinnert.de
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