With closer look and a lot of sensitivity helps the young theater director Marc Lippuner a small town in southern Thuringia, get to know themselves new.
(Frank Hommel, Free Word, October 23, 2009)
You know the painting from the Gallery: Who to close to it, is about not viewing the relationship. Then it helps to withdraw a few steps. It's the same with life. Has the person used to it, he takes - literally - The most remarkable things is not true. Much is lost in such a way in the head as the heart.
In Schleusingen have found it one that takes people by the hand, inviting them with him to do this step back. Of them a new perspective is evident in view of their city, their homes, their lives. It is Marc Lippa, 31-year-old theater director from Berlin. Lippa has studied in Berlin and Vienna, literature and history at Munich's National Theatre at Christian Stueckl, the director of the Oberammergau Passion Play, assists, three years in Aachen worked as assistant director. But then he announced, would rather be free. A grant from the Künstlerhof Red Ox "attracted him to Schleusingen.
" I look for the scars of the fall of the wall left in the biography of a city, scars that have become invisible or are laminated still arduous. "Words from Lippuner history "A last visit." words are a creed of what he has achieved in just six months in Schleusingen. For the history there was the competition of the province Scream Festival in third place. It tells of the poultry slaughterhouse behind the train station. exterminated since the turn The area in front of him. Meanwhile, demolition excavators have done a great job. Lippuner previously was with the eyes of curious strangers to save a reminder of what could be saved. In words that he wrote down, things he has collected.
Even more than with the slaughterhouse combine many Schleusinger with the children's home "Hilde Coppi" the know-you-still-feel. Also in this building had time to chew enough time. A fire did the rest: The Hilde-Coppi-Home will share the slaughterhouse fate. The memory of the home wafts through the city like the spores of a fungal culture. Lippa has also preserved them. But they are grateful. Although, or perhaps because they are often so careless on a home by looking like the slaughterhouse. They had grown accustomed to the sad picture. "Those of us," asks Carmen Hoffmann of the women's choir "Slusia" rhetorical, "Who of us would have thought to climb through the ruins?"
And not only visible witnesses of history have done it to Lippuner. It was not initially his intention to seek an archaeologist recently. It just so happened, he says. First he wanted to do more theater. In a city like Schleusingen a difficult task. Those who go to Berlin as director of strikes and has learned that the bureaucracy did not support themselves with productions can outwit, but rather tossing papers on which the word it says the project, knows how to be helped in the province.
So it came to "crossing borders". The project will be presented today. 30 letters, once sent across the Iron Curtain to or from Schleusingen has culled it. "We had some very banal." The pizza recipe overcame the border as well as the desire for hair spray. Something was sometimes herauszulesen condescension, and when the letters show one, he says, then how this side of the border over the years as is the norm over there.
teased out he has something in people. For a play he is still attractive, even when one can hardly call it classic. Chekhov's "Three Sisters", he has translated into Schleusingerische. With him there are six Women from the area, sum up over their lives. Six true, mind you. With his understanding nature Lippuner has managed to make them open their souls on stage. The audience holds its breath. Anyone who imagines a small town, where everyone knows everyone can imagine how difficult like the actresses that have fallen. "I never thought that as soon reveals something of himself," says Johanna Hoffman. At 71 she is the oldest in the sextet. In her youth she had been playing theaters, thanks Lippuner she was back then: ".. He gave me a lot, even at my age it's as if you later back to life looks different from purely" Carmen Hoffmann of the female chorus recounts the evening in the theater: "No one who has not even thought about it afterwards, what does home mean to me."
The six months of the scholarship recipients are almost. But the spirit in the town, which he coined, will remain something. Johanna Hofmann: "It looks and feels different from the environment." Or so many feel in Schleusingen, which dower the encounter with the 31-year-olds more than just the moment. Sometimes the art actually helps make the world a little better, to make life a bit richer. Even then, when the curtain has fallen, the book closed, dust the painting.
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