Hanna Kogler
    as Girl with the matchsticks / Mermaid / Chief Mistress of Ceremonies / Fairy of Sorrow
    Larissa Aimée Breidbach
    as Moor woman / princess Faboidea / rich woman
    Yves Hinrichs
    as Duckling / Prince Sören / Andersen's father
    Beyer / Wockenfuß
    Beyer / Wockenfuß

    Andersens Märchen (UA)

    by Stephan Beer and Georg Burger
    based on motifs by Hans Christian Andersen

    Listen to the song of the sea witch from “Andersens Märchen”:

    Where else can imagination have free rein, where else can mermaids go ashore, can storks tell each other stories, can ugly ducklings become proud swans, if not in fairytales?
    But what if the fairytales run out? A storyteller has to make this devastating experience one day. He is at a loss, where can he go from here? On his search, he comes across the moor-woman who may be able to help him. She shows him the way to the lost fairytales. But it is not an easy journey: He has to pass many challenges, strange creatures cross his path and slowly open up the door to imagination for him. Step by step, he finds his way back to the magic that prevents everyday life from being flat and dismal.

    “Andersens Märchen” is not the first time that Stephan Beer and Georg Burger explore the world of Hans Christian Andersen. In his stories, the Danish writer dealt with a multitude of very personal subjects: the poverty in which he grew up, the search for his own identity and recognition, his life as an outsider.

    With “Die Nachtigall” and “Die Eisjungfrau“, Beer and Burger staged two of Andersen’s tales in Leipzig. In their new Christmas play at Schauspiel Leipzig, they will now bring a wide range of characters and motifs from the writer’s rich narrative cosmos to life.

    Stephan Beer has been working as a freelance author and director since 2006, and he is considered to be an expert at adapting fairytales and literature for young readers for the stage. His productions have led him to theatres including Theater Magdeburg, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, tjg. Theater junge generation Dresden and repeatedly to Schauspiel Leipzig. In 2007, his production of the German-language premiere of “Titus” by Jan Sobrie was invited to Deutsches Kinder- und Jugendtheatertreffen in Berlin. Stephan Beer has been Head of Drama at Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern since the 2023/24 season.

    Georg Burger studied scenography at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). As a freelance set and costume designer, he has worked at theatres including Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Hans Otto Theater Potsdam and GRIPS Theater Berlin. In 2002, he was selected as Best Emerging Set Designer by the critics’ poll in the expert magazine Theater heute. Furthermore, he teaches at HfG Karlsruhe and at ZKM Center for Art and Culture Karlsruhe.
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    Premiere on 03.11.2024
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    Duration

    ca. 1:30, no break

    Cast

    Wenzel Banneyer as Hans Christian Andersen
    Dirk Lange as Theatre critic / Sea witch / Emperor / Andersen's grandfather
    Hanna Kogler as Girl with the matchsticks / Mermaid / Chief Mistress of Ceremonies / Fairy of Sorrow
    Annett Sawallisch as female stork
    Markus Lerch as Stork
    Larissa Aimée Breidbach as Moor woman / princess Faboidea / rich woman
    Yves Hinrichs as Duckling / Prince Sören / Andersen's father

    Live-Music

    Beyer / Wockenfuß

    Team

    Director: Stephan Beer
    Stage: Georg Burger
    Costume design: Kristina Böcher
    Music: Beyer / Wockenfuß
    Choreography: Sibylle Uttikal
    Dramaturgy: Georg Mellert
    Light: Jörn Langkabel
    Video: Kai Schadeberg
    Sound: Anko Ahlert, Erik Bossenz, Alexander Nemitz
    Inspection: Ute Neas
    Soufflage: Philine von Engelhardt
    Directing assistent: Lina Wegner
    Stage design assistance: Rayén Zapata-Gundermann
    Costume assistance: Maryna Ianina
    Mask: Barbara Zepnick, Kathrin Heine, Donka Holeček, Cordula Kreuter, Julia Markow
    Props: Sven-Sebastian Hubel, Steffen Schädel-Mechsner
    Stage master: Patrick Ernst
    Directing and dramaturgy internship: Fritz Lord
    Stage design internship: Meta Witte
    Costume design internship: Felix Ambrosius Metscher
    Theatre pedagogy: Amelie Gohla, Rosa Preiß

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