Anne Frank
The two-part mono opera describes in short pictures (such as "Birthday", "School", "Conversation with the father", "Summons to the Gestapo", "The hiding place" or "Raid") the fate of the 13-year-old girl Anne Frank, who changed from July 6, 1942, until his arrest by the Gestapo on August 4, 1944 in fascist Holland, with his family, was hiding in an Amsterdam back house. The emotional pressure that weighed on the child and yet was unable to break its moral strength permeates Anne Frank's entire documentary diary. The indomitable will of the girl is conveyed in these notes. The libretto, taken almost literally from the original, is integrated into a musical-lyrical narrative, the emotional content of which takes into account both the tragic events and the poetic expressiveness of the girl.
Anne's profound thoughts, her naive joy about a gift or a patch of blue sky, but also her naked fear and the will to remain brave, the budding love for Peter, her sense of situation comedy, the hope for freedom and more humanity, all that also finds oppressive expression in music. The freedom and dignity of man, the primacy of the mind over the body and the consciousness over matter are the central themes in this work. Particular attention is paid to the characters that appear only in Anne's monologues, but not in person: her father, mother, sister Margot and friends. This creates a special level of complexity that expands the scope for action of the monodrama.
Musikalische Leitung und Klavier : Roland Schmiede
Textcollage und Szenische Einrichtung : Susann S. Reck
Dramaturgie : Christian Steinbock
Anne Frank I : Henrietta Hugenholtz
Anne Frank II : Anna-Lena Pappe
Anne Frank II : Carina von Weyhe
Eine Zeitzeugin : Hannelore Don
