LOTS OF GOOD THEATER!

The festival is regarded as "probably the most important platform for up-and-coming directors in Germany" (NDR Kultur). As a laboratory for new forms of theater, the Körber Studio Junge Regie will present the wide range of topics and aesthetic approaches that the theater generation of the future will deal with from June 7 to 11, 2023. It offers space for encounters and discussions about productions, working methods and concepts. Hamburg thus becomes a meeting place for young theater professionals, for an audience interested in theater and for the German-speaking theater scene.

Elias Geißler is entering the race for the Theaterakademie with the production NOT NO ONE on June 7. In addition, our dramaturgy students play an important mediating role when they lead the audience discussions with the respective ensembles after the performances. And this year's festival performances will not only take place at the Thalia Gauß, but also at the Theaterakademie in Wiesendamm.

The festival is a joint project of the Thalia Theater, the Körber Foundation and the Theaterakademie Hamburg under the patronage of the German Stage Association. Further information and details about the productions and ticket sales can be found on the Thalia Theater website

Uncle Vanya celebrates its premiere at the Junges SchauSpielHaus on June 10. The production is designed for children aged 8 and over and is made possible by the Claussen Simon Foundation as part of the postgraduate project.

This gives HfMT directing graduates the opportunity to work on a professional production at the Junges SchauSpielHaus. The aim is to pursue an exploratory approach in order to develop and test innovative forms of theater for a young audience.
The 2022 production "OUT THERE" by Dominique Enz has just been awarded the Youth Play Prize at the Heidelberg Stückemarkt.

This year, Lorenz Nolting has developed a participatory format for children aged 8 and over based on motifs by Anton Chekhov. Chekhov's melancholy characters are transformed into tragicomic animals, and philosophical questions from children to the adult generation take center stage: Why do adults always have so much to do? Why do they often look so sad? And can't we live completely differently when we grow up?

Performed by the ensemble of the Junges SchauSpielHaus.
The premiere of Uncle Vanya is on June 10

And here it is: this year's summer opera, or operetta to be precise, with which we are going to dance and make our stage shake. Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss. Conductor Willem Wentzel feels the music "like an intoxication, a sparkling glass of champagne, like flying away from earthly reality. Music brings to life what cannot be experienced in everyday bourgeois life."

Director Christian Poewe adds: "There should be a great deal of laughter in such an undertaking as the one we have before us. But when staging celebrations, fun and a champagne mood, I'm always interested in what is being covered up and at whose expense". Stage designer Malina Raßfeld also traces this differentiated view by assigning images to the three acts, which on the one hand refer to the performance history of Die Fledermaus and on the other serve as abstract descriptions of the state of a false and depraved pleasure society.

We are giving away a total of 3 x 2 free tickets for the performances on June 13 and 21 for the furious semester finale of the opera class. Please send us an email to newsletter@hfmt-hamburg.de by June 6 and let us know your preferred date.

We will notify the winners of the prize draw on June 7. Good luck!
"Die Fledermaus" celebrates its premiere on June 11

From June 13 to 17, we will be showing five graduation projects in directing, acting and dramaturgy in the Malersaal of the Deutsches SchauSpielHaus.

Conflict is part of growing up and growing out, of the change of generations: this is how we have always told ourselves, for example in the stories of Antigone, Don Carlos and Hamlet. What do these conflicts look like in a present characterized by crisis? The young directors and dramaturges explore this question and rummage through the imperatives of pleasure, evaporated parents, a lack of future and new sincerity.

DIDN'T MEAN TO MAKE YOU CRY from June 13 to 17 in the Malersaal

Life without the JazzHall was not so long ago, but it is no longer imaginable. This month, it once again presents itself as a "crazy hidden object" full of treasures to be discovered, such as drummer Patrick Huss' master's degree on June 25.

Anyone with a passion for musicological topics should listen to the inaugural lecture by our new colleague Prof. Dr. Louis Delpech on 26 June in the Fanny Hensel Hall:
No future? Music history and eternal replay in the digital age

If you are drawn to faraway places - at least in terms of sound - we will send you without further ado to the concert of the Korean Gyeonggi Sinawi Orchestra with traditional Korean instruments. We are delighted that this ensemble is visiting the university as part of the celebrations to mark 140 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Korea. Gyeonggi Sinawi on June 23 in the Forum

The vocal ensemble under the direction of Isolde Kittel-Zerer presents itself in the Studio for Early Music series. The "Venuskränzlein" by Johann Hermann Schein and other songs from the 16th and 17th centuries are on the program.
Studio für Alte Musik on June 14 in the Spiegelsaal of the MKG Hamburg

Last but not least, we share the numbers of the month with you:
54 examination concerts, 29 studio concerts, 18 theater performances and 27 other gigs in the form of orchestra concerts, lectures and more. That makes a total of 138 - an average of 4-5 per day... pfff... Questions? Nope, neither do we.

Think of our selection as one of many possibilities :-)
Have fun, your HfMT