Sturm, Der

Alternative title: Tempest, The
Synopsis: Münchner Kammerspiele’s production of The Tempest directed by Stefan Pucher and televised by Peter Schönhofer for 3sat/ZDF Theaterkanal. Hildegard Schmahl is Prospero. The play is set in today’s mass entertainment industry. Pucher translates the opening shipwreck into the making of a documentary B-movie. The director is unable to believe in the humanist pathos of sublime Prospero - as his view of the world is always filtered through and coded by the media. Prospero lives out an impoverished existence as an unfulfilled upmarket zombie in the spirit of Count Dracula and the Count of Monte Christo, in a post-colonial luxury lodge where he is waited upon by his rebellious slaves Caliban and Ariel. Trinculo and Stephano are reminiscent of the British artists Gilbert and George, reliving one of their performances on black pedagogy.
Language: German (Standard)
Country: Germany
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Transmission details: 3 May 2008 at 20:15 (Channel: 3Sat)
Duration: 105 mins

Director

Peter Schönhofer; Stefan Pucher

Writer

William Shakespeare

Music

Marcel Blatti

Production Design

Barbara Ehnes

Costume

Annabelle Witt

Cast

Theatre company: Münchner Kammerspiele
Production type: Television and Radio Drama
Historical period: Contemporary
Plays: Tempest, The
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Multimedia productions; Gender reversal

History: The stage production by Münchner Kammerspiele premiered at the Schauspielhaus, Munich, on 8 November 2007.
The broadcast is a live recording from a staging of the play at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin for the opening of the German ‘Theatertreffen’ theatre festival in Berlin.
Awards: Nominated as one out of 10 most remarkable German-language theatre productions of the year for the annual German theatre festival ‘Theatertreffen’ (2008) in Berlin.
Stills: The stage consists of enormous pages from a book that Pucher turns as if he were leafing through Shakespeare’s play, but one that has been transformed into a colourful pop-up volume .
Textual information: Translated into German by Jens Rosett in a version by Stefan Pucher. The dramaturg is Matthias Guenther.
Reviews: Source: ZDF Theaterkanal programme information

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