„Schweig still, mein Stein!“

ein Herzklopfen in einem Akt

2024

3 Sopr. / 1 Mezzos. / 1 Tänzerin, 1 Fl./ 1 Klar./ 1 Fg./ 1 Tromp. (B) / Schlgw. (1 Sp.), 1 Vio./ 1 Vla./ 1 Vc./ 1 Kb.

25' - 45'

Hard Facts

 

    • Ensemble MODERN 
    • Musikalische Leitung – Clara Maria Wagsteiner & Ilya Ram
    • Inszenierung – Jonas Weber
    • Bühnen- /Kostümbild – Till Jasper Krappmann & Pia Preuß
    • Dramaturgie – Teresa Martin
    • Ärztin – Melani Marijanac
    • Assistenzärztin –  Johanna Münstermann
    • Anästhesistin – Dahyeon Kwon
    • Herz/ Tanz – Emma Ibáñez
    • Herz/ Mezzosopran – Tanja Elisa Glinsner

 

  • Es handelte sich hierbei um eine Kooperation der Deutschen-Bank-Stiftung, Ensemble MODERN, FrankfurtLab & der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main.

 

“Schweig still, mein Stein…!” // “Be silent, my stone…!”

a Music-Theatrical Heartbeat – in one act

 

Our hearts go out to all the victims and their families. // The situation is coming to a head. // State of emergency. // Warnings of devastating consequences. – Overwhelmed by world-weariness, the heart lies on the hospital bed. Diagnosis: the body has become engulfed in a never-ending barrage of media reports about the world’s catastrophes. Three doctors bend over the heart with concern, examine it, and at first seem overwhelmed by this unusual state of pain.

 

Unusual pain requires unusual healing methods…

 

Director Jonas Weber, librettist Linda Kokkores, and composer Tanja Elisa Glinser set out to make the abstract feeling of world-weariness tangible in musical theater for “Schweig still, mein Stein” (Be silent, my stone). They encounter it in a humorous, tender, and sensual way, take world-weariness seriously, make it collectively tangible, and try to overcome it.

Tanja Elisa Glinser has created a dense composition that forms a language of pain. She understands the media noise of disaster news as a musical principle and lets it rise to a cry. Jonas Weber stages the battered protagonists in sets and costumes by Pia Preuß and Till Jasper Krappmann with dry humor and great sensitivity.

 

Teresa Martin, Sept. 2025