Der Ozeanflug

(Il volo oceanico)

Bertolt Brecht - Heiner Müller - Fjodor M. Dostojewski
OZEANFLUG STEFAN KURT HEINRICH BUTTCHEREIT FRITZ MARQUARDT BERNHARD MINETTI MORITZ BAUER HANS BROICH RUTH CLÖSS CHRISTIAN HOLM STEFAN LISEWSKI TINO RIESNER HANS HENNING SCHUBERT ERIC WEHLAN SAMUEL ZACH	LANDSCHAFT MIT ARGONAUTEN MARGARITA BROICH PETRA‑MARIA CAMMIN RUTH GLÖSS CHRISTINE GROß SUSANNE SACHßE BETRINA SCHEURITZEL SUZANNEVOGDT	AUFZEICHNUNGEN AUS EINEM TOTEN WINKEL STEFAN KURT HEINRICH BUTTCHEREIT FRITZ MARQUARDT BERNHARD MINETTI MORITZ BAUER HANS BROICH MARGARITA BROICH LARS‑KILIAN FALK CHRISTIAN HOLM FLORIAN KAISER ALEXANDER KALOUTI TINO REISNER JOSÉ ROMÉRO HANS HENNING SCHUBERT ERIC WEHLAN SAMUEL ZACH

UNO SPETTACOLO IDEATO E DIRETTO DA ROBERT WILSON	Assistente alla regia PAUL PLAMPER
Co‑regia ANN‑CHRISTIN ROMMEN Costumi JACQUES REYNAND Luci HEINRICH BRUNKE Scene VERA DOBROSCHKE Drammaturgia HOLGER TESCHKE	Assistente ai Costumi REGINA GAPPMAYR Assistente personale di Robert Wilson JÖRN WEISBRODT Assistente alla Direzione Tecnica JOACHIM HAMSTER DAMM Fotografie BRIGITTE MARIA MAYER Direttore di scena ENRICO STOLZENBURG Suggeritore EVA‑MARIA BÖHM

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Tre testi sull'Oceano

To celebrate the centenary of Berlolt Brecht, born in in. Augusta on 10 February 1898, the Berliner Ensemble - the famous theatre founded by the playwright in the former German Democratic Republic - staged Der Ozeanflug, a radio drama written by Brecht in 1928. Bob Wilson was asked to direct the play by Heiner Muller - artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble until his death .in 1995 - and this was the last project that Wilson and the German dramatist worked on together, during a partnership that lasted almost thirty years and which, in the eighties, saw Muller collaborating on the German version of Civil Wars (1984) and the American director staging Alcestis and Hamletmaschine (1986), Quartet (1987) and The Forest (1988). On 28 January Der Ozeanflug had its Berlin premiere, as the first part of a production which included two other pieces, both directed by Bob Wilson: Landschaft mit Argonauten, penned by Heiner Muller in 1982, and Notes from the Underground, written by Dostoyevsky in 1864. The cast included actors such as Bernhard Minetti and Stefan Kurt, the costumes were by Jacques Reynaud, and music by Hans Peter Kuhn. The figure of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, the U.S. aviator who was the first to fly non-stop across the Atlantic from Long Island to Paris, represented for Brecht the symbiosis between Man arid the machine on which the future of the world was to be built. When his aircraft was shot down by the Nazis, Brecht commented: "Lindbergh conquered Nature, but the human race defeated Lindbergh." Müller's play, on the other hand, poses urgent questions about the technological age, and on the deification of technology by the human race who - thinking it will help Man to evolve - does not realise that it is being destroyed and brought to the brink of catastrophe, by technology. Notes from the Underground represents the future seen from the past, through the thoughts and visions a government official has concerning Man's progress, who has retired to a provincial town to occupy himself with metaphysics.

La trama

“Der Ozeanflug" is a radio drama, written in 1928, which tells of the "adventures" of U.S. aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh who made the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Long Island to Paris. Brecht focusses on the pilot's challenging we witness Lindbergh's preparations, while the crowds are waiting on both sides of the Ocean, the ships are scrutinizing every movement in the sky, and the radios are broadcasting messages.
"In Landschaft mit Argonauten" (the original title was Verkommenes Ufer. Medea Material. Landschaft mit Argonauten) by Heiner Müller, the myth of Jason and the Argonauts, immortalised by Euripides, is re-examined in a modern context. The three episodes that form the plot, transform the myth, or rather they cause it to "disintegrate in contemporary reality", and we see the world devastated by catastrophes wrought by Man: wars, atrocious acts of vengeance, tyranny imposed by conquerors, the destruction of Nature.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, published in 1864, takes the form of a monologue in two parts: The Underground and Concerning Wet Snow. In The Underground, the forty-year-old "underground man", leaves his job after receiving an inheritance, and holes up in a novel where he broods on his worthlessness and his incapacity to become something, abandoning himself to a completely "conscious inertis", which is the only way out, the only road to freedom for those who think and have achieved self-awareness. In Concerning Wet Snow, the "underground man" remembers some episodes from his past that can illustrate his concept; a concept known as "dialogic self-awareness" which is at the heart of Dostoyevsky's major characters.

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