Graf Oderland

Composer: Kaiser, Sven

Author: Frisch, Max

Horvath, Barbara

Zagermann, Simon

Strutzenberger, Thiemo

Fuchs, Mario

Blumchen, Linda

Brommelmeier, Klaus

Schroder, Julius

Weber, Tobias

Borgolte, Cornelius

Bassler, Julia

Hold, Steffen

Treuenfels, Moritz von

Costume Designer: Geremus, Esther

Stage Director: Bachmann, Stefan

Set Designer: Altmann, Olaf

Lighting Designer: Edrich, Roland

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Catalogue Number: THE08080

UPC: 4260415080806

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Stefan Bachmann stages Max Frisch's drama as a highly musical horror trip with powerful imagery, giving full scope to the suggestive power of the theatre.

A bank clerk bludgeons a janitor to death: with no reason, no motive, just like that. This murderer and his "senseless" deed totally derail the general prosecutor whose job it is to bring the charge. In a mad rush, he leaves his well-ordered existence and becomes an axe-wielding murderer, initiating a bloody movement against the socio-political status quo. Stefan Bachmann takes the subtitle of this "street ballad" at face value. The multifaceted live music, a cast who are clearly going all out and Olaf Altmann's congenial spatial positing create a nightmarish maelstrom that sees the story of "Count Oederland with the axe in his hand" as timeless while at the same time evoking countless highly topical associations.