Born to be Wahnsinn
Stage and costume design for Glamour Mountain, a puppet and mask theater production with live music. Idea and concept based on true events in the Austrian ski resort Ischgl.
The mountain presents: Glamour Mountain! Die schillerndste Serie aller Zeiten. Mittendrin ein Schneepark in Form von Pamela Andersons Brüsten und Persönlichkeiten die zwischen Visionen und Größenwahn schwanken – und keine Rücksicht auf Natur und gesellschaftliche Veränderungen nehmen.
Tourismus muss eng sein. Man braucht Körperkontakt.
The South Tyrolean hotelier and mastermind A. dreams of making his village the trendsetting model for snow tourism in Austria. Heated roads, canopied mountains, a snowboard park in the shape of Pamela Anderson's body, après-ski with Hollywood stars and celebreties. As the ultimate magnet for tourists he plans to produce the most exciting, successful and expensive series ever: Glamour Mountain.
Søgaard/Barthel/Glöckler are creating a puppet and mask theater piece circulating around mountains, love, power, snow and money. The director and prophet A. is portrayed as a large puppet, and forms the center of the production of Glamour Mountain surrounded by many well-known and power-obsessed personalities of the contemporary media world. A. hides irreversible changes, massive interventions in nature as well as the worlds political situation. The filming increasingly revolves around the conflicts between the tight-knit Hollywood stars, the inhabitants of the village, environmental activists, crowds of visitors and cable car operators.
The counterpoint to this madness is the panorama of the North Tyrolean Alps. A model mountain creates the slightly obsessive romanticism of a railroad plate contrasting the vastness of the mountains. The Alps are embodied by the live performed music of Pilocka Krach, who comments the story from a bird's perspective. The structure of the stage consists of a sand-colored sofa landscape, which was taken from the last production Danish Pork for reasons of sustainability.
Moodboard Kostümbild
© Boris Mikhailov und Lois Hechenblaikner
Premiere on September 22, 2022 at Schaubude Berlin.
Puppenspieler*innen: Magda-Lena Schlott, Josephine Buchwitz, Jarnoth
Music: Pilocka Krach
Director: Nis Søgaard
Stage design: Jana Barthel
Costume design: Jana Barthel, Sinah Grießler, Ann-Kathrin Schröder
Puppet construction: Magdalena Roth, Barbara Weinhold
Dramaturgical advice: Franziska Dittrich
Assistant director: Christoph Scharf
Set design assistance: Helena Palmer
Production: Miriam Glöckler
Lighting design: Werner Wallner
Text editing: Team Team
Fotos: Gianmarco Bresadola, Trailer: Aaike Stuart
Das Bühnenbild wurde ursprünglich für die Produktion Danish Pork hergestellt. Es wurde von der Polsterei Krebes Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, Ausstellungstechnik Klaus Sagi Berlin, Veranstaltungstechnik Paul Mede, MaxxPrint Leipzig, Creative Concepts Wiesbaden und in Teilen von Jens Angerer und dem Team der Schaubude Berlin produziert.
A production by Søgaard/Barthel/Glöckler. The realization of the project is made possible by funds from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur des Bezirksamtes Pankow.