About the production
Start
7 p.m.
End
9:45 p.m.
Director Marcel Kohler will bring together Shakespeare’s masterpiece about destructive rage and deadly relationships and a text that has only recently been attributed to the famous English playwright to create an immersive station drama in the former Telux glass factory in Weißwasser.
The point of departure is complicated: Venetians and Turks – West vs. East, economic power vs. military strength – are fighting over Cyprus (which remains divided even today). The ensign Iago has been passed over for a promotion by Othello, a general in the Venetian army. Plotting revenge for this humiliation, Iago conceives a plan to convince Othello that his wife Desdemona is unfaithful.
All of the principal figures in this play are driven by frustrated desires and fears of loss. Throughout history, anger and desire have been powerful influences on the ways we perceive each other, not only in the Lausitz. In Shakespeare’s tragedy, this sets a catastrophic series of events in motion that results in loss for everyone.
The young director Marcel Kohler and his team are interested in the conflicting truths of the »Othello Story« and the numerous ways the figure of Othello continues to be exploited. And so the Danner-Halle of the Kulturzentrum Telux – which in recent years has often hosted performances by the Lausitz Festival including highly-praised Shakespeare productions – will play an important role: the audience will experience Othello’s story from different perspectives at different places in the former glass factory. The perspective of the women involved plays a decisive role here.
In this way, a complete picture of the drama will not emerge until all of the viewers finally come together and are confronted with their own desires and flaws.
Introduction by dramaturge Michael Höppner:
30 minutes before the start of each performance,
in the entrance area to Danner-Halle
»Jeli maće hudźbu, kotruž njesłyšiš, potom hrajće dale.«
Brabantio w Shakespearowym Othello
»If you have any music that may not be heard, to ’t again.«
Brabantio in Shakespeare's Othello
Marcel Kohler
Marcel Kohler, born in Mainz in 1991, studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin (2011 to 2015). He was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. During his studies, he took on his first roles at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, where he was permanently engaged from 2015 to 2023.
He joined the ensemble of the Schaubühne Berlin for the 2023/2024 season. Recurring appearances at the Salzburg Festival. He has received several awards. Among others, he received the Daphne Prize, the O. E. Hasse Prize, the Alfred Kerr Actor Prize for the best performance by a young actor at the Berliner Festspiele's Theatertreffen and was named Young Actor of the Year 2016.
Marcel Kohler works regularly as a director and set designer, for example at the Nationaltheater Weimar, Deutsches Theater Berlin and Theater Heidelberg. His productions have been awarded the »Der Faust« theater prize in a retrospective and received the Dr. Otto Kasten Prize from the group of artistic directors in 2021. He has also been invited to renowned festivals such as the Ruhrfestspiele, Mülheimer Theatertage, Fringe Festival Beijing/China, Gogol-Festival Kyiv/Ukraine, Festival di Spoleto/Italy and the Fiesad-Festival Rabbat/Morocco.
Marcel Kohler has a close working relationship with the actress Corinna Harfouch. He has staged two monologues with her.
Marcel Kohler is the initiator and founding member of Neues Künstlertheater.
Most recently, he received the Berlin Art Prize from the Academy of Arts in 2023.
Leonard Burkhardt
Leonard Burkhardt was born in Berlin in 1997. He gained his first acting experience at the DT Jung* in Berlin. He completed his acting studies at the Theaterakademie August Everding in Munich in 2022.
In the same year, he appeared as a guest in »Identitti« (director: Salome Dastmalchi) at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. In addition to theater, he also works in film and as a speaker. In the 2022/23 season, he was a permanent ensemble member at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. Since 2024, he has been a guest at the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Schauspiel Köln.
Götz Schubert
Since the beginning of his career, Götz Schubert has impressed audiences and the press with his acting range and distinctive intuition for the roles he plays.
He always finds his own approach with a deep feeling for the idiosyncrasies of the characters in order to bring out the fragility, the humanity and the humor of the characters and to give them a closeness to life and truthfulness. His differentiated, masculine and sensitive execution of the traits with which he gives the characters a believable life of their own was recognized early on by theater directors such as Alexander Lang, Amélie Niermeyer, Herbert Fritsch, Jürgen Gosch, Karin Beier, Peter Stein, Philipp Stölzl and Thomas Langhoff, who repeatedly cast the actor in their productions.
In film, he has won over audiences and the press in collaborations with Ben Verbong, Christian Schwochow, Edward Berger, Francis Meletzky, Isabell Kleefeld, Matti Geschonneck, Robert Schwentke, Till Franzen and Lars Kraume. Lars Kraume has made many award-winning films over the years, such as »The Silent Classroom«, »The State against Fritz Bauer« and »God according to Ferdinand von Schirach«.
He has performed at major German-speaking theaters, including the Berliner Ensemble, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theater, Residenztheater Munich and Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Since the beginning of his career, Schubert has appeared in numerous cinema and television productions, including »Der Turm«, »Meine Tochter Anne Frank«, »Tage, die bleiben« and »Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter«, as well as in serial audience successes such as »Die verlorene Tochter«, »KDD« and »Wolfsland«.
He was voted Actor of the Year by Theater heute, honored several times with the German Television Prize and the Grimme Prize and awarded the Audience Bambi for his acting. Götz Schubert is an ambassador for the German Palliative and Hospice Foundation. The actor lives near Berlin.
Linn Reusse
Linn Reusse, born in Berlin in 1992, studied at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2012 to 2016. Even before and during her studies, she had roles in the theater (Deutsches Theater Berlin, Renaissance Theater, BAT Theater) as well as in film and television productions (including »Goethe!«, »Bloch«). She played the title role in the movie »Die rote Zora«.
Linn Reusse has been a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin since the 2016/17 season. There she works with Stephan Kimmig, Daniela Löffner, Timofej Kuljabin, Lilja Rupprecht, Karin Henkel and Jossi Wieler, among others. In 2018, Linn Reusse played Swanhild in »Siegfried's Heirs« at the Nibelungen Festival in Worms, directed by Roger Vontobel. In 2019, she received the Daphne Prize from the Theater Gemeinde Berlin, which honors outstanding young performers on the Berlin cultural scene.
In 2023, Linn Reusse performed in »Nathan the Wise« at the Salzburg Festival, directed by Ulrich Rasche. Linn Reusse is part of the Neues Künstlertheater. She experiments with live drawings on stage and runs the mental health blog »Semikolon« together with journalist Maja Goertz. She also regularly speaks for audio book and radio play productions. Linn Reusse has been a member of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg ensemble since the 2023/24 season.
Dagna Litzenberger Vinet
Dagna Litzenberger Vinet was born in Oakland (USA) in 1987 and grew up in France, Germany and Switzerland. After studying philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, she studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin from 2010 to 2013. Her first engagement took her to the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 2013 to 2017. In 2018, she appeared at the Berlin Theatertreffen as Cassandra in »Beute Frauen Krieg« (director: Karin Henkel).
She then worked freelance and performed on the stages of the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Lucerne Theater and at the Salzburg Festival, among others. From the 2020/21 season, she was a member of the ensemble at the Burgtheater in Vienna for two years.
In addition to her work in the theater, Dagna Litzenberger Vinet also regularly appears in front of the camera in various film and television productions.
Sina Kießling
Sina Kießling studied acting at the Rostock University of Music and Drama. She then went to the Theater Heilbronn from 2003-2007. This was followed by a two-year engagement at Theater Lübeck, where she played roles including »Lulu«, »Karoline« and »Maria Braun«. It was during this time that she met director Anna Bergmann, with whom she has maintained a close artistic collaboration to this day.
Since 2009, she has worked as a freelance actress at Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Schauspielhaus Bochum, Volktheater München, Stadsteater Malmö, Theater Lübeck, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Theater Basel, among others. In 2006 she was awarded the Kilian Prize for Best Actress and in 2010 she was nominated for Best Young Actress in North Rhine-Westphalia.
In addition to her work as an actress, she also studied cultural management at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Since then, she has also worked as a production manager and producer with Fabian Hinrichs for the Foreign Affairs Festival and Nordwind Festival, with the choreographers Simone Aughterlony, Kat Válastur and Ligia Lewis and, since 2015, with the theater collective machina eX.
Tom Gramenz
Tom Gramenz was born in Wiesbaden in 1991 and gained his first professional theater experience at the local state theater in 2007 in the cinema adaptation »Sommer vorm Balkon« as a youth actor under the direction of Thorsten Duit. After a few years at the Junge Bühne Mainz, he studied acting at the Ernst-Busch in Berlin in 2014.
After completing his studies, he began his artistic work as a permanent ensemble member at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he performed in productions including »Nora Hedda und ihre Schwestern« and »Die Neuen Todsünden« under the direction of Anna Bergmann from 2018-2021. He also played the roles of Orest and Achilles in the production »Iphigenia« (directed by Lilija Rupprecht) and the leading role in the play »The Golden Pot«.
Until summer 2024, after leaving the Badisches Staatstheater, he appeared as a guest in the two-person play »How to date a Feminist«, which had its German-language premiere in Karlsruhe and was a hit with audiences.
In 2018, he took on a leading role in the highly acclaimed feature film »The Silent Classroom«, directed by Lars Kraume.
In 2024, Tom was already seen in guest appearances in the Paramount+ series »Eine Billionen Dollar« and was in front of the camera for the TV crime series »Dünentod« in the spring.
Tom Gramenz is currently a freelance actor and voice-over artist based in Berlin.
Artists
Play Leonard Burkhardt
Play Götz Schubert
Play Linn Reusse
Play Dagna Litzenberger Vinet
Play Sina Kießling
Play Tom Gramenz
Direction Marcel Kohler
Stage and costumes Torsten Köpf
Light Henning Streck
Video Linn Reusse
Music Christoph Bernewitz
Drums and vibraphone Evi Filippou
Choir Stadtchor Weißwasser e.V.
Choir direction Lars Deke
Location
Location Danner-Halle, TELUX-Gelände, Weißwasser O.L. / Běła Woda
Address Straße der Einheit 20, 02943 Weißwasser O.L. / Běła Woda
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