Mörder (killer)

Freely adapted from Oskar Kokoschka Murderer, Hope of Women

Bonger Voges, theater director, choreographer and dancer, developed the piece "Mörder, ..." as a consistent continuation of his artistic work, which has already received great attention from audiences and critics with FESSELHAIN and MÄNNERTÄNZE. His conception of expressionist dance theater is based on the tradition of modern European dance theater and conveys archaic, mythical pictorial content on this artistic-technical basis.

For his production "Murderer, ..." Voges borrows from the world's first expressionist theater, "Murderer, Hope of Women", by Oskar Kokoschka. Likewise, he was particularly inspired by various lunar myths, ancestral imaginations, in the sense of magic - of the Egyptian Isis and Osiris myth, the Germanic Baldr and Freyr myth, the fairy tale world and the poetry of the 8th century Persian poet TabiÂ'a. The texts for the music are taken from Kokoschka's work.

While the "MÄNNERTÄNZEN" were thematically based on the masculine principle, "MÖRDER, ..." refers to the feminine principle: that of the moon and the night. "MURDERER, ..." Movement, language, objects, stage, music merge into each other and set free far-reaching associations of violence and blood. Death as a basic principle of rebirth and redemption, of change and transformation - the blood - recurrent, elementally feminine. Both correlate with the moon and form the basis of lunar myths.

"I have made You, God, the beloved of my heart,
But my body is accessible to those who desire its company.
And my body is friendly against its guests
But the beloved of my heart is the guest of my soul."
Rabi´a

Choerography: Jenny Coogan, Chetan Bosak, Sabine Hass, Caroline Höhne, Jutta Keller, Claudia Weiss, Bonger Voges
Lighting direction: Erik T. Schläger
Music: Stephan Massimo, Carl Hänggi, Frank Bodin
Vocals: Franca Courtin
Costumes: Barbara Langenberg, Daniel Blauenstein
Costume assistance: Martina Wörle, Julia Strauss
Mask: Susi Hartmann
Stage/Objects: Christoph Simons, Bonger Voges
Realization: Jochen Hassdenteufel
Assistance: Xenia Frenkel
Production: Bonger Voges

More about "Murderer,..." at: Press

Camera: Target Film Munich