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Die Vaterlosen

A comedy by Anton Chekhov

 Schauspielhaus

 Premiere: 3.6.2023

 3 hours 30 minutes (with intermission after 2h30)

 There is shooting with scare guns on stage.

 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

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 Schauspielhaus

 Premiere: 3.6.2023

 3 hours 30 minutes (with intermission after 2h30)

 There is shooting with scare guns on stage.

 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

A deadly comic battle for love and money as a lavish ensemble celebration

German translation by Ulrike Zemme
With a monologue by Katja Brunner

A Russian society in economic decline, unable to free itself from the toxic ghosts of its overpowering forefathers, entirely shaped by militarism and dreaming of lost greatness. In his early work written by the Azov Sea, which became known by the title of Platonov, Anton Chekhov celebrates a farewell to a dying world. Anna Petrovna, who moves in the best social circles, unexpectedly finds herself on the brink of financial ruin. People gather at her country estate on the evening before it is auctioned off and play like there is still something to be won. And no one sees the approaching catastrophes.

The ensemble of "Die Vaterlossen" in front of the black bars.

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Joachim Meyerhoff is pierced by spears and looks like Jesus on the cross. Opposite him is an actor in a black coat and black hat.

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Katharina Bach sits on Joachim Meyerhoff's lap and throws herself backwards.

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Two actors stand in a sea of red-lit rods.

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Wiebke Puls is embraced from behind by a screaming Edmund Telgenkämper. She is wearing a black dress.

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A cell phone is set up on a tripod and films Carl Hegemann and Walter Hess. They are sitting on chairs and talking.

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Wiebke Puls stabs Abel Haffner between the legs with a stick.

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Anna-Gesa Raija Lappe stands in an aggressive posture between black bars, Joachim Meyerhoff behind her.

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Four actors on stage. Bernardo Arias Porras holds a pistol in his hand and embraces Joachim Meyerhoff and Katharina Bach. Edmund Telgenkämper stands next to him laughing.

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Wiebke Puls and Joachim Meyerhoff dance closely together. She holds a beer bottle in her right hand, he a black staff.

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Bernardo Arrias Porras stands wistfully between black bars.

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Thomas Schmauser sits between black rods.

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Matthias Jakisic plays the violin. He wears black clothes and a black hat.

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Katharina Bach lies above Joachim Meyerhoff. In the background the ensemble.

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Thomas Schmauser pours soup over his dark suit.

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Edith Saldanha and Thomas Schmauser in front of the stage set made up of black rods.

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Edith Saldanha in a colourful costume on the right of the picture, looking melancholically ahead. In the background Joachim Meyerhoff in his underwear, Wiebke Puls in an evening gown.

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Joachim Meyerhoff holds sticks to his forehead so that it looks like antlers.

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An actor in a black military costume on the left of the picture. Wiebke Puls in an evening dress on the right.

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Performance rights: Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Hamburg (translation by Ulrike Zemme); S. Fischer THEATER & MEDIEN, Frankfurt am Main (monologue by Katja Brunner)

Anna Petrowna Wojnizewa, young general's widow Wiebke Puls
Sergej Pawlowitsch Wojnizew, her stepson Bernardo Arias Porras
Sofja Jegorowna, his wife Katharina Bach
Porfirij Semjonowitsch Glagoljew, landowner Edmund Telgenkämper
Kirill Porfirjewitsch Glagoljew, his son Abel Haffner 
Marja Jefimowna Grekowa Anna Gesa-Raija Lappe
Iwan Iwanowitsch Trilezkij, retired colonel Walter Hess
Nikolaj Iwanowitsch Trilezki, his son, doctor Martin Weigel
Michail Wassiljewitsch Platonow, village school teacher Joachim Meyerhoff
Alexandra Iwanowna (Sascha), his wife Edith Saldanha
Ossip, horse thief Thomas Schmauser
Carl Carl Hegemann
Directed by Jette Steckel
Stage Florian Lösche
Costumes Pauline Hüners
Live music (Composition) Matthias Jakisic
Music (composition) Anna Bauer
Video Jens Baßfeld, Jake Witlen
Dramaturgy Emilia Heinrich, Tobias Schuster

Lightdesign Maximilian Kraußmüller, Diana Dorn, Weronika Patan, Parthasarathi Sampath Kumar, Mirko Mayrold Neubauer
Assistant director Melina Dressler
Stage design assistant Julia Bahn
Costume assistant Kira Marx
Inspection Stefanie Rendtorff
Soufflage Verena Rendtorff
Director internship Tim Beyer
Equipment internship Mia Siebauer
Stage Design internship Sharon Smadja, Josephine von Collas
Artistic production management Victoria Fischer
Technical production management Jonas Pim Simon
Stage master Thomas Graml, Josef Hofmann
Stage machinery Florian Obermeier, Daniel Capellino
Sound Ulrich Treutwein, Korbinian Wegler
Make-up Marisa Schleimer, Elvira Liesenfeld, Raimund Richar-Vetter
Costumes Marija Ruzic, Bernd Canavan
Costume Paula Engelhardtova
Props Anette Schultheiss, Sabine Schutzbach
Carpentry Stefan Klodt-Bussmann, Sebastian Nebe, Wolfgang Mechmann
Locksmithery Friedrich Würzhuber, Jürgen Goudenhooft, Benjamin Böwing
Wallpapering Maria Hörger, Anja Gebauer, Lisann Öttl
Scenic Painting Evi Eschenbach, Jeanette Raue
Theatre sculpture Maximilian Biek

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MK: Backstage

Katharina Bach walks onto the stage in costume and laughs over her shoulder into the camera.

Photo: Leonard Rössert

Walter Hess in makeup with makeup artist Raimund Richar-Vetter

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Anna Gesa-Raija Lappe sits already in costume at the open window of the dressing room

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Edmund Telgenkämper in makeup with makeup artist Raimund Richar-Vetter

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Actor Martin Weigel and assistant director Marion Hélène Weber sit next to the stage

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Ernst-Friedrich Harmsen and Wiebke Puls backstage

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Wiebke Puls in makeup with makeup artist Raimund Richar-Vetter

Photo: Leonard Rössert

Anna Gesa-Raija Lappe sits on a workbench in the prop room and pets a stuffed deer

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Katharin Bach with an electric guitar during soundcheck on stage

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Ernst-Friedrich Harmsen & Carl Hegemann sit backstage and talk

Photo: Leonard Rössert

Anna Gesa-Raija Lappe lies on her back on a bench in the dressing room and stretches her legs in the air

Photo: Leonard Rössert

The ensemble during the performance on stage

Photo: Leonard Rössert

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Digital Program Booklet "Die Vaterlosen"

Learn more about Anton Chekhov and the relevance of his protagonist “Platonov”!

DAD MEN TALKING

Carl Hegemann in conversation with changing guests

Here you can see and hear what happens backstage during the performance of “Die Vaterlosen”.

Press reviews

“At the Münchner Kammerspiele, director Jette Steckel is putting on the highly entertaining and clever Chekhov update “The Fatherless” starring Wiebke Puls and Joachim Meyerhoff to great applause”

Der Spiegel • 4.6.23

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“When Platonov is finally chased off, when every single one of the women he has hurt has wonderfully vomited out her anger, the lights go down on a Chekhov production that will linger in the memory for a long time for its raw and complex beauty.”

Bayerischer Rundfunk • 4.6.23

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“Joachim Meyerhoff plays his character with such overripe disillusionment that, especially in the relationship catastrophes, a couple of moments of bright truth shine through. And with them, pure theatrical joy.”

Die Zeit • 7.6.23

“A great production, clever, exhausting, demanding, whose idiosyncratic characters will haunt you in your dreams.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung • 5.6.23

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Dates & Tickets

Sat 25.5. 7 – 10:45 pm

Introduction from 6:30 pm

 Tickets

Sun 26.5. 4 – 7:45 pm

 Tickets

Die Vaterlosen

 Schauspielhaus
 Premiere: 3.6.2023
 3 hours 30 minutes (with intermission after 2h30)
 There is shooting with scare guns on stage.
 Thu-Sat: 15-45€, Sun-Wed: 10-40€, under 30 years each seat category: 10€

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