Baal

Team

Director, stage design, costumes

Ersan Mondtag

Costumes

Annika Lu

Cooperation Stage Design

Marcel Teske

Music

Eva Jantschitsch

Choral Direction

Jonas Grundner-Culemann

Correpetition

Max Doehlemann

Lighting Design

Ulrich Eh

Artistic Consulting

Clara Topic-Matutin

Video

Bahadir Hamdemir

Cast

Baal

Stephanie Reinsperger

Eckart

Kate Strong

Mech, Hauswirtin, Gendarm 1

Veit Schubert

Pschierer, Lupu, Watzmann

Paul Zichner

Dr. Piller, Doktor

Peter Luppa

Kellnerin Luise, Der Geistliche

Owen Peter Read

Johanna, Claude

Emma Lotta Wegner

mtsbote, Die jüngere Schwester

Marc Benner / Torben Appel

Kellnerin Marie, Sophie

Jasha Eliah Deppe / Yanina Cerón

Emilie Mech, Der Klavierspieler, Gendarm 2

Anna Sophie Schindler

Johannes und Mutter

Pauline Knof / Judith Engel

Die ältere Schwester, Ein junges Weib, Soubrette

Jonas Grundner-Culemann

Horgauer, John

Johannes Meier

Bertolt Brecht's expressive stage ballad Baal tells of the life of an artist – wandering between genius and madness.

It is named after the Syrian fertility god, whose image hung above the bed of the precocious playwright in the Augsburg attic. Obsessed with a panicked desire for happiness, Baal lives a life entirely under the sign of art, which leaves little (intermediate) human space between intoxication and crash. Baal's behavior and life path violated the moral and social norms of his time – and not just these. In his interpretation, Ersan Mondtag deals with the question of our lowest common denominator, of respect and solidarity – and of the possibility and necessity of an encounter on an equal level from person to person.

Photocredit: Florian Seufert

Time

06. September 2019 – 02. February 2020