Thuner Seespiele
The Thun Festival (proper spelling: ThunerSeespiele ) are one every year since 2003 in Thun (Canton Bern, Switzerland ) held musical event.
Performances
The ThunerSeespiele place every year from mid-July to late August. Venue is the floating stage, which is being built in laughter area ( near the stadium laughter ) each in Lake Thun and dismantled after the event. Organizer of the event, of the roughly 75,000 spectators each year records of 28 match days, the ThunerSeespiele AG.
History
In the summer of 1999, the ThunerSeespiele AG Andreas Stucki and Ueli Bichsel visited the two initiators of the Bregenz Festival and were inspired by the local musical production. They were convinced that Lake Thun, the Bernese Oberland mountains and the atmosphere in Thun would offer the best conditions to make the fascination Musical will be an unforgettable experience for the senses in hardly beatable way. So they sat down a clear objective: At the Lake of Thun to stage high-quality musicals annually with a personal touch. Since then, every year on the most beautiful lake stage Europe's musical productions presented to an enthusiastic audience in front of a breathtaking natural setting.
In addition to musical classics as Evita - the musical West Side Story or present the ThunerSeespiele also repeatedly successful productions (2010 Dällebach Kari - The Musical, Gotthelf 2011 - The Musical 2013 The Visit of the Old Lady - The Musical).
Productions
Dällebach Kari - The Musical, 2010
The tragic yet comical figure of Dällebach Kari is a legend in Switzerland. The impossible love story of an outsider moves people again and again, providing the perfect template for an emotional musical. Because of his harelip and associated speech impediment Kari has been marginalized at school. Later he fights with biting wit for recognition and opened in 1900 its own hairdressing salon in New Bern alley. Suddenly, the happiness it seems to hold: A Dutiful Daughter, Anne Marie, falls in love with him. But their love is doomed to failure; Anne Marie's parents forbid the relationship. As a result, Kari forfeit more and more alcohol and thanks to his stories and anecdotes to the city known original. Finally, he had cancer. On the evening of July 31 1931, Kari therefore falls from the Bernese Kornhausbrücke to death. But even after his death, he lives on as a legend.
With several successful theater productions, the film by Kurt Breakfast of 1970 and the song from Mani Matter Dällebach Kari was definitely the most famous Hairdresser Switzerland. Together with the author Katja early and composer Moritz Schneider developed the homeland Publishing (part of ThunerSeespiele Management AG ), a new version of the story for the Lake Thun Festival, which premiered in 2010.
In 2011, Kari was Dällebach - also listed The Musical in Zurich and 2012 in Bern.
Gotthelf - The Musical, 2011
The cheese factory in the Vehfreude, which served as the basis for the musical, is primarily a love story, after the ancient fairy tale of Cinderella scheme. What obstacles must be Annie, the former Verdingkind overcome, until it finally with Ammann Felix the umschwärmtesten bachelors of the village, can be happy? But the history of the fangled cheese factory, which ensures Vehfreude for confusion and excitement in the farming village, is also a lesson on the way, as it was then, as now, policy is made in Switzerland, will never match the big words and small egos quite. And last but not least covers the story, as so often in Gotthelf, also a lot of comedy. For Jeremias Gotthelf, the rule very well understood that still just as those who fail to get people to smile, can not touch their hearts.
The homeland Publisher took the opportunity, from the story " cheese factory in the Vehfreude " a musical for the ThunerSeespiele to develop - mainly because in addition to the author Charles Lewinsky with the composer Markus Schoenholzer and director Stefan Huber two other experienced professionals in the Swiss theater scene with it were.
The Visit of the Old Lady - The Musical, 2013
The new Swiss musical The Visit of the Old Lady (Musical) had on 16 July 2013 Thun its world premiere.
The material for it comes again from the Bern region - and has enjoyed worldwide success for 55 years. The work visit to the old lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) was filmed eg with Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn in the lead roles. These as well as entertaining biting criticism of (not only) to Swiss small town spirit had since 1956 started as a theater piece in Zurich premiere and has a popular throughout the world.
The plot of this designated by Dürrenmatt as " comedy boom " the play is told rapidly: The multimillionaire Claire Zachanassian returns after 45 years in her hometown Güllen back that she had once left arm and dishonorable. Became rich through nine marriages, it provides the village population to a billion when her then- lover Alfred Ill is killed in return. This indecent proposal will initially refused indignantly, but secretly everyone begins to reckon with the promised sum and transactions. Ill first wants to escape from slurries, but delivers traced from the village population.