“Dad, I think that’s the ice,” said a young visitor who went to the Linz Children’s Theater “In the footsteps of Ötzi” yesterday and pointed to the falling tarpaulins (stage: Georg Lindorfer). she was right. While it was uncharacteristically warm outside, it was the Alpine Neolithic period inside.
According to a text by the German author Christian Schönfelder, however, the young (and older) audience was not abruptly thrown 5000 years into the past.
A committed trio, directed by John F. Kutil, has decided to shoot a documentary about Ötzi: Simone Neumayr, David Baldessari and Matthias Hacker portray it, but slip into many more characters. You can experience Reinhold Messner, a North Tyrolean and a South Tyrolean official, who each file a territorial claim to Ötzi, Erika and Helmut from Germany, the wandering explorers, a French salt merchant, even Ötzi’s rebellious daughter, his somewhat anxious son and Ötzi himself The colorful group of dazzling characters makes the play a light-footed transfer of knowledge, driven by all sorts of questions, they make Ötzi’s (survival) life as vivid as his death as a mysterious criminal case – because that too is part of humanity.
The ensemble brings the fun with wonderful Tyrolean, even more wit and slapstick interludes including fight scenes à la Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill. Karl Lindner’s music and the play of light by Franz F. Stögner struck softer tones. It made the tarpaulins shine, as did children’s eyes. (nb)
Source: Nachrichten
