GOETHE, J.W.: Faust (Expo World Hannover, 2000)
Faust
Hunger-Buhler, Robert
Ganz, Bruno
Hobmeier, Brigitte
Boysen, Rolf
Kirchhoff, Corinna
Rehberg, Hans-Michael
Hartinger, Dorothee
Nickel, Christian
Oest, Johann Adam
Oesterlein, Christine
Sarkiss, Jurgen
Baumecker, Stephan
Habicht, Christian
Kubler, Tanja
Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Catalogue Number: THE10101
UPC: 4280000101013
Goethe's Faust in the staging of Peter Stein. The story of a person who wants to reach the limits of his knowledge and his talents - and goes beyond them - is narrated, with both loving and insistent accuracy. His constant failure and the ensuing devastation, the tireless new beginnings, finally his death and the embedding of his dying into an overarching endowment of meaning form the dramatic arc of poetry.
This all-encompassing work has never been shown in its full text form by a professional theater company in temporal and local unity. In the cultural program of EXPO 2000 Hannover and later in Berlin, Peter Stein realized his dream. Under the sometimes astonished, partly skeptical glances of audience and critics he ventured the actual premiere of Faust.
With the congenial Bruno Ganz as title hero, the ensemble conquered the unplayable in a truly unique stage marathon: a celebration of language! The fourfold cast of the Mephisto figure, as well as a constant change of the scenes, which the audience had to experience over two dramatic theater days, were further highlights of this production.
Television directors Peter Schonhofer (Faust I) and Thomas Grimm (Faust II) have adapted the theatrical performance in a combination of documentary and cinematic-scenic recording technology with twelve cameras for the television audience. During the two-and-a-half week shooting time, no audience was worked during the day, before the evening continued with the performance. In three-month editing time could be the concentrated television version.
