Tribüne Linz: “The Artificial Silk Girl” invites you to experience the lightness of being

It is sometimes difficult to maintain a certain lightness in times of crisis. The Tribüne Linz invites you to a short guide to this with its new in-house production, which combines theater, chanson and musical: With her 1932 novel “The Artificial Silk Girl”, the German writer Irmgard Keun (1905-1982) succeeded in creating a portrait of women and the times. Tribüne director Cornelia Metschitzer brings the theater version by Rainer Bielfeldt (music) and Carsten Golbeck (book and lyrics) to the stage as a two-person piece in the tried and tested Tribüne minimalism.

Disarmingly outrageous

“Becoming a splendor” is what the penniless Doris dreams of in Berlin in the 1930s. With nothing but a suitcase and her vision. Lisa Kröll, who has been part of the Tribüne ensemble since this season, gives her life artist the power of youthful freshness, something disarmingly impudent – Doris knows the capital of her feminine charms – but also the gnawing loneliness of a driven woman who never arrives. Rudi Müllehner variably cultivates the wide range of her lovers, from the intrusively coarse to the broken, abandoned one.

Rainer Bielfeldt’s music is harmonious: the moments in which Rudi Müllehner picks up the guitar and starts a song are enriching; Bruckner University graduate Ivan Nazarenko recorded the pieces on the piano.

Sometimes you feel a bit trapped in a time loop because of the men who come and go. In between, pearls of cheerfulness continue to shine, which this fighter is able to overcome the dreariness of her life.

Conclusion: A woman’s fate, told lightly in the tried and tested grandstand style.

Further dates:

New Year’s Eve performances: December 31st,
6 and 9 p.m.,

further dates from January 12th,

until March 10th, tickets: 0699 11 399 844 and www.tribuene-linz.at