Hamlet

Synopsis
A televised version of Stemann’s acclaimed stage play. The production uses music from different periods and combines film and video with live performance. Stemann cut the text severely, and reduced the cast to the play’s seven principal figures who populate Katrin Nottrodt’s completely walled-in, steeply raked stage. The space contained two video monitors, with another up above the audience. The monitors remained on throughout the production, broadcasting video clips—particularly scenes from Olivier’s HAMLET—live feeds of onstage action from a camcorder operated mostly by Hamlet, and, in between, static.
Language
German (Standard)
Country
Germany
Medium
Television
Technical information
Colour / Sound
Transmission details
25 Feb 2002 (Channel: 3Sat)
Duration
120 mins

Credits

Director
Nicholas Stemann
Music
Sebastian Vogel; Thomas Kürstner
Production Design
Katrin Nottrodt
Costume
Esther Bialas
Contributor
Frank-Patrick Steckel
Cast
Philipp HochmairHamlet
Matthias NeukirckClaudius
Isabelle MenkeGertrude
Andreas EbertPolonius
Juliane NiemannOphelia
Fabian GerhardtHoratio
Sebastian HaaseLaertes

Additional Details

Production type
Stage Recordings
Historical period
Contemporary
Plays
Hamlet
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multimedia productions

Notes

General
The production portrays a media prince who loses himself as Hamlet between media pictures that surround him and a court that views guilt casually and with merriment.
History
First staged at the Schauspeil in Hannover beginning 17 February 2001. Transmitted on Theaterkanal on 5 October 2002.
Textual information
Translated into German by Frank-Patrick Steckel. Dramaturg is Matthias Pees.
Reviews
Rouse, John Western European Stages 14, no. 3 (2002): pp. 5-24 (esp. pp. 18-20). [Review of stage production].

Production Company

Name

ZDF

Notes
See: Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Archive

Name

Österreichische Mediathek

Web
http://www.mediathek.at External site opens in new window
Phone
+43 1 597 36 69 20
Fax
+43 1 597 36 69 40
Address
Austrian Audiovisual Archive - Technical Museum Vienna
Marchettischlössl
Gumpendorfer Straße 95
Vienna
1060
Austria
Name

University of Hildesheim

Email
auskunft@uni-hildesheim.de
Web
http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/en/bibliothek.htm External site opens in new window
Phone
05121 883 260
Address
Library
Marienburger Platz 22
D-31141 Hildesheim
Germany

Distributor (Sale)

Name

ZDF - Programme Service

Email
programmservice@zdf.de
Web
http://www.theaterkanal.de/fernsehen/mitschnitt/ External site opens in new window
Phone
0049-(0)6131/70 9510
Fax
0049-(0)06131/70 9515
Address
HA ABD, Programmverwertung und -übernahme
ZDF-Straße 1
Mainz
55100
Germany

How to cite this record

Shakespeare, "Hamlet". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/av68119 (Accessed 10 Nov 2024)