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B-Ebene. Underground Stories Neukölln (UA)

  • Sun 11/23 7:30 PM
With his ways of music theater, also Hannes Seidl creates a unique experience of the flow of time. Based on observations and recordings of everyday routines on the B level of the subway station at Neukölln’s Hermannplatz, students from the Albert Einstein Gymnasium are developing a piece about everyday life and dreams of a better future. The former C&A department store (now “CANK” for C&A Neukölln) was abandoned in 2012 due to increasing competition from the internet. On the immense surface of the first floor, with its mirrored columns and the markings of former sales routes, a multi-choir portrait of a city emerges – how it views itself, how it was, and how, perhaps, it could be.
Composition, Artistic Direction
Hannes Seidl
Set Design
Natalia Orendain
Chorus Direction of *Vocal Heroes*
Johannes David Wolff
Production Management
MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
Production Office Berlin
ehrliche arbeit – Freies Kulturbüro
With
MAM.manufaktur für aktuelle musik
  • Jo Ambros  Electric Guitar
  • Sebastian Berweck  Synthesizer
  • Malin Grass  Violin
  • Thomas Grimm  Bassoon
  • Paul Hübner  Trumpet
  • James Morley  Cello
  • Sun-Young Nam  Keyboard
  • Rie Watanabe  Percussion
Students of the Albert Einstein Gymnasium
Children and youth choir *Vocal Heroes*
B-Ebene. Underground Stories is a production by Hannes Seidl & Briefkastenfirma GbR in co-production with Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, funded by the City of Frankfurt am Main. The development and performance of the Neukölln version for BAM! are supported by the Music Fund with funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.