Walser’s comedy “A bit of calm before the storm” (premiered in Mannheim in 2006), which premieres on December 26th on the studio stage of the Landestheater, directed by Nina Metzger, is about three of these genres.
The three actors Franz Prächtel (Helmuth Häusler), Peter Söst (Horst Heiss) and Ulli Lerch (Daniel Klausner) sit in a TV studio and wait for their performance. They will soon be debating the limits of the art of theater in a cultural program. Two of the men – one of whom does not resemble Bruno Ganz by chance (as a leader in the film “Der Untergang”) – have inscribed themselves in the audience’s memory as a Hitler actor, the third only as a Goebbels actor, but also applauded. It’s about understanding roles and fantasies about size, which grow into a deliciously clichéd and exaggerated debate about directorial theater.
It is Metzger’s debut as a director. The 31-year-old has been working as a director’s assistant at the Landestheater since 2017 – where she was already warmed up by her German teacher for the performing arts while she was still at school. After graduating from high school in Wels, she studied German in Vienna and worked in a media agency. “At some point I no longer wanted to sit in front of the computer for eight hours a day,” says Metzger. So far she has worked with Susanne Lietzow and Georg Schmiedleitner, among others. Now her chief dramaturge, Andreas Erdmann, offered her first own direction. (pg)
Landestheater, Studiobühne: “A bit of calm before the storm”, by Theresia Walser. Director: Nina Metzger, Premiere: 26. 12., Term until 15.2. www.landestheater-linz.at
Source: Nachrichten
