Musical by the Tiger Lillies, Julian Crouch & Phelim McDermott, music by Martyn Jacques.
The famous picture stories of Struwwelpeter, written by the Frankfurt pediatrician and psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann in 1844 for his three-year-old son, are gems of so-called "black pedagogy" and left a lasting mark on German cultural history. Who doesn't know them: the fidgeting Paulinchen, the incorrigible thumb-sucker Konrad or the fidgety Philipp, for whom the diagnosis of adhs was as little up for discussion as Ritalin? Instead, all these annoying monsters suffered draconian punishments from overtaxed guardians or the righteous revenge that, appropriately enough, always follows a misstep in Hoffmann's world.
In 1998 the "kinderkurranzende Moritatenbilderbogen" (FAZ) fell into the hands of three Englishmen: Theatre-makers Phelim McDermott and Julian Crouch, and musician and singer Martyn Jacques, head of the cult band "The Tiger Lillies". They turned it into a junk opera for adults, in which circus sounds and vaudeville combine with punk, music in the Brecht-Weill succession and bitterly wicked British humour to create a highly effective mixture. The fact that Hoffmann's panopticon thereby turns into pew-singing for parents, who shamelessly reveal whose brainchild they are, has seduced theatres ever since to entertain evening audiences with a children's book - with sensational success worldwide!
Director Tilo Nest
Musical Director Volker Griepenstroh
Stage Stefan Heyne
Costumes Anne Buffetrille
Choreographic collaboration Tine Lost
Dramaturgy Katharina Gerschler
Conférencier Hanno Friedrich
Happy Family Sólveig Arnarsdóttir, Michael Birnbaum, Barbara Dussler, Myriam Lifka,Anja S. Gläser, Karoline Reinke, Mats Beyer
Band Matthias Baumgardt, Ralf Göldner,Volker Griepenstroh / Alexander Paeffgen,Willy Wagner
Penguin Philipp Appel
Text source and further information about the event:
http://www.staatstheater-wiesbaden.de/programm/spielplan/shockheaded-peter-2016-2017/3768/
