EMANUEL MESHVINSKI
CONDUCTOR // COMPOSER
Kein Schöner Schland
A splatter operetta in 5 acts
“In the small house on the outskirts of town,
Happiness is at your doorstep,
With carport and small garden,
where all the neighbors are already waiting for you…”
Based on Bonn Park's play "Das Deutschland," we packed up all our questions about belonging and identity, all our homeland horror, and embarked on an expedition into the almost forgotten realm of operetta. Because operetta, like no other genre, can be ambiguous, combine socially relevant themes with absolute slapstick, and can amuse and hurt in equal measure.
THANKS TO
Lukas Gerber (Bass) THUMAS
Lilja Peterson (soprano) EMULIE
Anna Bottlinger (soprano) SONDRA
Zhe Hao Yeo (Tenor) LONNART
Till Gedack (actor) HERRY
Alex Gut (Actor) BRATNEY
and Hannes Höhler
LIBRETTO Stefan Czura/Elisabeth Hoppe
MUSICAL DIRECTION Anna Burova
DRAMATURGY Elisabeth Hoppe
SET DESIGN Merle Morzé /Elisa Maria Zeisler
COSTUME DESIGN Oliver Velthaus
COSTUME ASSISTANT Lou von Ohlen
PROPS Merle Morzé /Elisa Maria Zeisler
MASK Oliver Velthaus/ Lou von Ohlen
VIDEO Viviane Noémi Denis
VIDEO COLLABORATION Tayna Kirchner, Viviane Tchen, Maria Maass
DIRECTED BY Stefan Czura
FLUTE/PICOLLO Henrike Kathe
OBOE/ENGLISH HORN Jonathan Rusch
CLARINET Leonie Hesse
BASSOON Ángela Ballesteros Gámez
TROMBONE1 Michel Schwalgin
TROMBONE2 Jan Schulze-Middig
PERCUSSION Laura Köhler
HARP Armand Brunet
PIANO and ACCOMPANIMENTATION Flora Stecher
VIOLIN1 David Wurm (KM), Hanna Song, Anouk Maron
VIOLIN2 Inhye Lee
VIOLA Ljubica Bicanin, Khai Jeat
VIOLON CELLO Hannah Bauer, Pablo Camba Di Gregorio
DOUBLE BASS Finja Marzahn