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Sex and drugs between the wars: a bitterly evil portrait of society in the late 1920s.
Fabian, 32 years old, extremely charming and chronically broke, stumbles through Berlin's feverish (night) life with his best friend Labude. He doesn't find a proper job, but he does find the love of his life in the rising actress Cornelia. But her rise has a price - and it puts their young love to the test.
One might think: A plot straight out of a Hollywood film. But life is more complicated than that: it is the time of the Weimar Republic, the First World War is only a few years behind people, the atmosphere is charged and social conditions are precarious. Fabian himself is a war returnee, inwardly wounded, love can be bought and morality is not always as important as claimed. In any case, nothing is black and white. Even if that sometimes seems easier. Fabian whirls through Berlin, torn between the longing for a past order and peace, and the battles for political power in a weakened democracy.
Erich Kästner's 1931 urban novel Fabian paints a picture of the years surrounding the rise of fascism. Thomas Dannemann is now devoting himself to this text with drama students from the Folkwang UdK and tells of a time whose political developments cast their shadow on our present day.
Information about the piece
- Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde
- after Erich Kästner
- Director: Thomas Dannemann
- With: Franka Forkel, Klara Günther, Leander Hesse, Florian Kreßer, Laoise Lenders, Michael Lippold, Anton Balthasar Römer, Luke Venatier, Lise Wolle
- Place: Kammerspiele
- Duration: about 2:45, one break
- Premiere: 31.01.2025
- Language: DE
Performances
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Participants
- Director: Thomas Dannemann
- Director: Thomas Dannemann
- Stage: Justus Saretz
- Costume design: Clementine Pohl
- Music: Matthias Flake
- Video: Sascha Kühne
- Light design: Sirko Lamprecht
- Choreographical associate: Thomas Rascher, Eran Tobi
- Dramaturgy: Marvin L. T. Müller
- Assistant director: Christian Feras Kaddoura, Gianluca Elbert
- Assistant stage design: Max Manderbach
- Assistant costume design: Lara Suppe, Sina Gröner
- Trainee costume design: Amelie Narz
- Stage manager: Christina Baston
- Prompter: Tanja Grix
Images
Press reviews
Thomas Dannemann und den Schauspielenden gelingt es, das zügellose und erotisch aufgeladene Berliner Nachtleben am Ende der Goldenen 20er wunderbar mitreißend und humorig auf die Bühne zu bringen.
WDR 5 Scala, Amanda Andreas
Die Premiere an den Kammerspielen Bochum begeistert mit abwechslungsreichem Bühnenbild (Justus Saretz), fetziger Musik (Matthias Flake) und nicht zuletzt einem großartigen Ensemble aus Schauspielstudierenden der Folkwang Universität der Künste Essen.
Westfälischer Anzeiger, Marion Gay
Wie Cornelia und Fabian einander auch körperlich näherkommen, gehört zu einer der zartesten, schönsten Liebes-Szenen, die man seit langem im Theater sah.
Rheinische Post, Dietmar Zimmermann
Cooperations
A co-production with the Folkwang Universität der Künste
Sponsored by Deichmann-Stiftung
