What remained of the human being.
Victor Ioan Frunzã got up Brecht‘s play "Mother Courage" at the German National Theatre Timisoara
The atmosphere is accented very effectively by Adriana Grand‘s stage set (the equipment deserves absolutely a price of the theatre federation UNITER). It is metallical-coldly and unfriendly. The space use is likewise innovative: The stage occupies the whole space of the hall, whereby the distance between auditorium and stage is blown up and the direct experience of the happening was made possible - but for an audience reduced down to 90 spectators. These dimensions make it also possible that at the two ends of the stage actions run parallel and the conception wins at dynamics in such a way.
The "Mother Courage" is above all an ensemble achievement. Under the direction of Victor Ioan Frunzã the dramatic construction grows to a unit, in which there are no solo runs. Each secondary part is drawn with extreme finesse, creates a world for itself, without impairing the overall construction [...]
In the role of the Courage, on whose shoulders after all the action rests, Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu is brilliant and with sureness she creates one of her best roles. She does not shrink back of large physical employment and convinces with a large range of very convincingly played emotions. However, her play is not of exaggerated staginess or forced emphase, but of genuine humanity, which finally flows into (suggested) insanity - in the very effective conclusion scene, in which she, confused singing, pushes the burning buggy over the stage, during the war (by the singing war god, played by Marc Ossau) continues to rave.
Moreover Simona Vintilã also convinces in the role of the mute Kattrin, who tries to communicate herself and is at the mercy of the failure. She gives the role a human dimension, which is pathetically. As sergeant/captain Marc Ossau has a very solid stage presence, and an increase in performance is also noticeable of the youngest actors (Colin Buzoianu as Eilif and Boris Gaza as Schweizerkas). Mircea Dragoman as solicitor and second lieutenant and Tatiana Sessler as Yvette also create believable and well outlined characters [...]
The production is conclusively, coherent and extremely tense, which makes it to a real theatre experience.
With this "Courage" Victor Ioan Frunzã surely created one of the most complex, but also best productions of the German National Theatre Timisoara of the last years, which will go into the golden book of the theatre. Moreover it sets a sign in the theatre world of the city and the German stage recommends as a good address if it concerns theatres.
Why (still) one laughs, why still one applauds? [to the play "Out of control"]
The lustrous mood and the devilish play on the stage do not diminish for more than two hours, because of the starting point with a fascinating lining up of gags - all charming and expressive at the same time. (...) The actor Bernd von Bömches - an invariably "british" presence - is the main element in the whole play constellation. And this not only because everything starts from him and strikes back on him, but also because the artist - with the marking of this shape - risks his versatile, distinctive skills. Close by him all other ensemble members show best playing achievements: we find profile-strong performances, elegantly used play desire, finely drawn shapes by Mircea Dragoman, Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Rares Hontzu or Boris Gaza. Daniela Török is much more than the sympathetic sex symbol of the German stage, she convinces with her representation. Treated by the author less consistently, the shapes of the Karina Reitsch and Isolde Cobet integrate themselves moderately into the dramaturgy of the play, which is supplemented on the happiest way by the stage equipment of Arch. Traian Zamfirescu, in agreement with the intention of Bogdan Ulmu.
The German theatre on tour
with plays from different categories
Between 12th and 19th of May of this year the German National Theatre Timisoara makes a tour through the country, on the travel plan there are a few cities in the south of Transilvania and Bucharest.
On the tour programme there are representative plays of the play time 1999-2000: "The robbers" by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Clemens Bechtel (Germany), "the fairy tale musical for the whole family" "Little red cap, little red cap" by Ernst A. Ekker and Sergej Dreznin, directed by Mariana Tiron Emandi, the German music evening "The music makes young" with the performance of the soloists and the orchestra of the German National Theatre Timisoara under the direction of Ioan Opra.
The theatre intended to come up to the expectations of the different categories of spectators in Deva, Sibiu, Medias, Brasov and the capital.
In the troop, which undertakes this journey, the top actors of the theatre of Timisoara are not missing: Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Bernd von Bömches, Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu, Tatiana Sessler, Isolde Cobet, Harold Schmeltz, Dana Borteanu, Ildikó Frank-Ionescu, Mircea Dragoman, Daniela Török etc. The popular actor Alexander Ternovits is invited to the concert "The music makes young".
Today and tomorrow the actors of the German National Theatre Timisoara going to play on the stages of the puppet-show "Gong" and of the national theatre "Radu Stanca" at Sibiu. The tour will end at Bucharest, where the actors from Timisoara will perform the plays "Little red cap, little red cap" and "The robbers" on the stage of the Jewish National Theatre.
Born on 15th of January 1975 at Brasov. In 1997 he went through the German play class of the college of music of the Western University and since beginning his studies (1993) he plays on the stage of the German National Theatre Timisoara. He was: Beggar in "Little shop of horrors" by H. Ashman, Ferdinand in "Intrigue and love" by Schiller, I in "The house on the border" by Slawomir Mrozek etc. and director‘s assistant with the productions: "Don Juan comes from the war" by Ödon von Horvath and "The robbers" by Schiller. Single.
"King Bérenger"
Premiere on the stage of the opera
In the hall of the Romanian Opera an extraordinary event will take place on 23rd of September at 7 p.m. - the premiere of the opera-theatre performance "King Bérenger" by the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister, adapted and directed by Frans Meevis after the original text "The king dies" by Eugene Ionesco. In the production of Frans Meevis modern music, with many dissonances and syncopes, mates with the dramatic prose text. The unorthodox performance is the result of the close co-operation of the lyric soloists with the actors of the German National Theatre Timisoara and is a premiere for Romania. Except the main role, played by the baritone singer Cristian Rudic, all roles will be interpreted by a soloist of the opera and an actor. On the cast list there are Aura Twarowska, Stefania Stefan, Gergely Menyhért Németi, Elvira Cimponieriu, Sabin Placinta Ciurescu of the Romanian Opera Timisoara and Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, Tatiana Sessler, Mircea Dragoman, Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu and Boris Gaza of the German National Theatre Timisoara. The performance will be subtitled in Romanian language. The music direction holds the conductor Ion Iancu.
The German theatre finished the play time strongly
with 100 per cent German cast
Recently with the performance for children "Max and Moritz" after Wilhelm Busch and the mono drama "Siberian" by Felix Mitterer back from a tour through Transilvania, the actors of the German Theatre in Timisoara rehearse "The broken jug" (in the context of the co-operation of the German National Theatre Timisoara with "Radu Stanca" from Sibiu), "Ladies of the society" by Clare Boothe Luce, directed by the German director Clemens Bechtel (for the audience of Timisoara well-known from his earlier co-operations with the German National Theatre). The premiere of this play will take place at the end of September. Till then "Mother courage", the play which led to many newspaper debates, but which is however without contradiction the best performance of the Timisoara‘s theatre scene, will get up on the stage again, on Wednesday the 19th of June, 7 p.m. The actors Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu, Simona Vintila, Colin Buzoianu, Boris Gaza, Mircea Dragoman, Marc Ossau, Bernd von Bömches, Alexander Ternovits will play Brecht‘s figures on the stage set by the stage designer Adriana Grand and under the guidance of the talented director Victor Ioan Frunzã. On Thursday the 20th of June the comedy "The end of the beginning" by Sean O‘Casey, produced by Bogdan Ulmu, will take place at Franziskanerhof and on Thursday 7 p.m. the preview premiere of the performance "Edith Piaf. My sun rises if it becomes night." by Frank Geerk under the direction of Alexandra Gandi will be performed at the theatre hall. This performance is the license examination of the students of the German play class of the Western University. The premiere will take place at the beginning of the next play time.
Yesterday the German Theatre showed the premiere of "Dinner for cranks" by Francis Veber. The boulevard comedy, produced by Bernd von Bömches, has as main figure a mad book publisher who looks for several cranks in order to present them to his friends on a weekly dinner. The found crank, a tax officer, is presented to the friends in his absence because the publisher has a lumbago... Francis Veber‘s comedies were played on several stages all over the world, and yesterday evening we saw the actors Mircea Dragoman, Simona Vintila, Rares Hontzu, Marc Ossau, Ciprian Lungu, Daniela Török, Colin Buzoianu and Alexander Ternovits, some of them are play students, in the scenery by George Petre.
On Sunday the 29th of April, 7 p.m., and on Monday the 30th of April, also at 7 p.m., the premiere of the performance Mother Courage and her children by Bertolt Brecht will be performed on the stage of the German National Theatre Timisoara. The cast is in addition to the troop of the theatre of Timisoara composed of: Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu, Marc Ossau, Bernd von Bömches, Alexander Ternovits, Mircea Dragoman, Boris Gaza, Simona Vintila, Johanna Adam, Colin Buzoianu, Tatiana Sessler. The music is of Paul Dessau, the choreography of Liana Iancu, the scenery and the costumes of Adriana Grand and Victor Ioan Frunzã leads the direction. Mother Courage is a chronicle of the war of 30 years, a story about a compromise, about a world based on the principle "who tricks whom". The performance with this production will be performed on a special stage area: an area behind the front line. The auditorium becomes a platform on which actors and spectators meet, in a metallic atmosphere which breaks permanently and arises then again. In a corner of the platform the orchestra is placed which accompanies the actors. The role of the Anna Fierling is played by the actress Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu (for the second time at the German National Theatre Timisoara, after the version of 1988 under the direction of Darida Istvan-Andras). The performance in German language will be translated into Romanian language simultaneously [over headphones].
On Sunday the 29th of April the premiere of the performance "Mother Courage" by Bertolt Brecht took place at the large hall of the German National Theatre Timisoara under the direction of Victor Ioan Frunzã, costumes and scenery by Adriana Grand, choreography by Liana Iancu and music by Paul Dessau. The performance combined a young team of German-speaking actors, graduates or students of the German play class of the college of music of the university in Timisoara and was be worked out with the assistance of the institute for foreign relationships Stuttgart, the Danube-Swabian culture foundation of the country Baden-Württemberg and the council of county Timis. On the cast list there were in addition to whole troop of the German National Theatre Timisoara: Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu, Marc Ossau, Bernd von Bömches, Alexander Ternovits, Mircea Dragoman, Boris Gaza, Simona Vintila, Johanna Adam, Colin Buzoianu, Tatiana Sessler.