theatercombinat | 1998 fatzer-fragment brecht - 4 months + 18 presentations, first release in swiss, théàtre du grütli, geneva (ch)

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    in june 1998 the first performance in french and in switzerland of the fragment took part in the théâtre du grütli. fatzer, the most voluminous fragment by bertolt brecht consists of about 500 loose sheets of manuscripts, done from 1926 to 1931: it is a monumental «aggregat» of sketches of plots, dialogues, reflexions, schemes ... a text inherently demanding the spectator as co-producer of meaning.

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directed by: claudia bosse, space: josef szeiler, collaboration: maya bösch, actors: maya bösch, pascal francfort, camille giacobino, sandra heyn, mathieu loth, anne marchand, heike müller, renaud serraz, fabienne schnorf, christine standfest; translation: francois rey, collaboration for translation: sylviane dupuis, claudia bosse, maya bösch, edition: arche, consultation: michèle pralong

théàtre du grütli, geneva, 4 months + 18 presentations
(march - june 1998)


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(claudia bosse)

vorbemerkung
raum
improvisation
komposition
thesen
fragen
zusammenfassung der arbeitsansätze
probenprotokolle
gespräch zu regie
gespräch zur position des zuschauer

  conditions a four-months working-process in geneva, grütli-theatre, march to june 1998, with the first three phases of bertolt brechts fatzer-fragment. this was the first theatrical work with the complete fragment, without dramatic montage or selection of the text.

aims the aim of the work with fatzer was to approach the fragment-character theatrically, practically. what does it mean for the theatre to treat a fragment as a fragment? it is not about completing, make it «whole», create an «opus». it is not understood as failure, but as productivity, initiating a precise and concentrated dialectic movement of thesis and rejection.

the rehearsals ended with the last performance. the aims for the experiments were new constructed for every performance- the result of these performances was fatzermaterial 1-18.

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