{"id":1146,"date":"2013-09-03T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msschrittmacher.de\/?page_id=1146"},"modified":"2020-02-19T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T08:39:07","slug":"anita-berber","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.msschrittmacher.de\/en\/anita-berber\/","title":{"rendered":"ANITA BERBER RETRO\/PERSPEKTIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"ANITA BERBER RETRO\/PERSPEKTIVE-
\n<\/strong>A TANZFONDS ERBE Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

The performance ANITA BERBER – Sie tr\u00e4gt die Nacktheit im Gesicht – makes a guest performance on the 14th and the 15th of October 2015 at the Saarl\u00e4ndischen Staatstheater<\/p>\n

And the ANITA BERBER – Lecture Performance will be presented on the 17th of October 2015.<\/p>\n

Both are presented in the course of the TANZ FESTIVAL SAAR.<\/a><\/p>\n

The ANITA BERBER production has been mentioned by Renate Klett as \u201ebest choreographer” at a critique\u2019s survey in the magazine \u201eTANZ\u201c: Martin Stiefermann with MS Schrittmacher for his Tanzfond Erbe project \u201eAnita Berber\u201c including the performance, book, discussion and documentation\u201c.<\/p>\n

Additionally Maria Walser in \u201eAnita Berber\u201c has been mentioned as the \u201ehope 2015\u201c by Hartmut Regitz. \u201eTotally whitened her face appears at the end. Blood-red her lips, pointed like on a painting by Otto Dix. Maria Walser, however, not simply puts on the make up of Anita Berber but really embodies the whole ambivalence of her aspect of a triple-fanned out stage<\/a> presence<\/a> in the RETRO\/PERSPEKTIVE by Martin Stiefermann.<\/p>\n

Egocentric to utter excess, she still suggests a vulnerability<\/a> that eventually leads to her downfall. Forcefully, nearly obsessively the Berber by Maria Walser is hammering herself into the ground as if she wanted to destroy herself and yet pin herself down in the memories of others.\u201c<\/p>\n

Most people today only remember Anita Berber, iconic dance persona of the 1920\u2019s, for her scandals, Rosa von Praunheim\u2019s film or the morbid portrait that Otto Dix painted of her. Despite the fact that Anita Berber was a well-known star in the roaring twenties – not just in Germany, but also abroad. Like no other, she challenged the views and habits of her day and age, provoking new experiences in her audiences. Both loved and hated by the public, the former Sacchetto pupil staged her work with more and more radical technical perfection.<\/p>\n

In ANITA BERBER \u2013 RETRO\/PERSPEKTIVE, MS Schrittmacher set out to reassemble the lost traces of this exceptional dancer and choreographer. The comprehensive research and reconstruction project leaves the scandals behind it to focus on the heart of Anita Berber\u2019s work. The results will be presented from June 18th<\/sup> to 29th<\/sup> at Kunstquartier Bethanien. MS Schrittmacher explore the world of Anita Berber from a dancer\u2019s perspective, tracing her artistic signature, as well as her methods to thus acquire a deeper understanding of who she really was.<\/p>\n

In addition to biographical literature, professional and contemporaneous documents of the 1920\u2019s, the research is based on material from the German Dance Archive in Cologne and the Anita Berber Archive in Berlin, where Martin Stiefermann discovered the slim volume \u201cAnita Berberov\u00e1 \u2013 Study\u201c by the Czech choreographer and author Joe Jen\u010d\u00edk. In it, Jen\u010d\u00edk describes both the dramaturgy and effect of Berber\u2019s choreographies in a very unique and emotional way. As part of the project ANITA BERBER \u2013 RETRO\/PERSPEKTIVE, MS Schrittmacher will be publishing Jen\u010d\u00edks study from 1930 for the first in German translation.<\/p>\n

Based on Jen\u010d\u00edks study, choreographer Martin Stiefermann has reconstructed select solos by Anita Berber together with dancer Brit Rodemund. Their goal is to approximate Berber\u2019s original work and its artistic radicality as closely as possible from today\u2019s perspective. After a successful presentation of the first results of this work in January 2014, Martin Stiefermann and Brit Rodemund continue their reconstruction work on Anita Berber and will present this in a second lecture performance at Kunstquartier Bethanien, Anita Berber\u2019s place of death.<\/p>\n

Based on the results of these reconstructions, MS Schrittmacher will also develop a dance piece with three dancers\/performers that focuses on the work and methods of dancer and choreographer Anita Berber. Eyewitness reports, newspaper articles and reviews tell the tale of the Anita Berber\u2019s pulsating, restless existence, which knew no boundaries and in which personal experiences were directly translated into movement and dance. Anita Berber as an artfully open book, a life of dance without distance.<\/p>\n

The Retro\/Perspektive will also pay tribute to Anita Berber\u2019s extensive cinematic work. MS Schrittmacher have invited DJ D\u2019dread, known for his innovative silent film live sets, to bring the very first episode film \u201cUnheimliche Geschichten\u201d – in which Anita Berber played all female roles\u00a0 – into the present by provide a live soundtrack to an exclusive screening.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, MS Schrittmacher and other artists will discuss the legacy of Anita Berber in a round table discussion. What does artistic radicality mean today? And who are its protagonists?<\/p>\n

A look backwards into the future.<\/p>\n

\u00a0VIDEOS\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The trailer of \u00a0\u201eAnita Berber \u2013 Sie Tr\u00e4gt die Nacktheit im Gesicht\u201c <\/strong>can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The play can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A documentary about the project \u00a0\u201eANITA BERBER-Rekonstruktionen\u201c<\/strong>\u00a0can be viewed following this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To see a video of the \u00a0\u201eLecture Performance\u201c<\/strong>\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0PRESS\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCora Frost, Brit Rodemund and Maria Walser gave all for 90 minutes in a revue that is sometimes filled with humor, sometimes with pathos\u2026 The wonderfully low key, smoothly dancing Maria Walser, with a fearless gaze that makes her capable of anything \u2013 she is believable. Frost as a stoned diva, actually too old to be the drug-addicted Anita who died at 29 \u2013 no matter: so uniquely smooth. Long live the gesture of a genius! (Zitty \/ Berlin)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cTen days and five formats \u2013 film, book, DJ performance, discussion \u2013 that all culminate in Stiefermann\u2019s piece \u201cAnita Berber \u2013 sie tr\u00e4gt die Nacktheit im Gesicht\u201d, whereby the scandalous femme from the past is now embodied by three performers as a primadonna of change and thus a precise symbol of her time. It is not the concrete that is to be reanimated here \u2013\u00a0the iconic character of this appearance as well as the radical artistic act are written further, painted over and newly formatted. It\u2019s because the Kugelmensch and the cocaine diva still radiate into the present. What more can one ask from dance art from the past? In any case, Tanzfonds Erbe has served its purpose.\u201d (Die Welt)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026the proximity is impressive and increases the pull of the piece. The performance is underlain with electronic sounds and music from the 1920s; it strengthens the feeling of sitting in a live film about Anita Berber. Recommendation: go, let yourself be seduced and disgusted by the wild 1920s and a woman who tried to fight with her art against the attitudes of her time.\u201d (Unruhe im Oberrang \/ Theater Kritik Berlin)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0PAST SHOWS\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAnita Berber \u2013 She Wears Her Nudity in the Face\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dance
\nPreview 16. &amp; 17.06.2014 at 7.00 pm
\nPremiere 18.06.2014 at 8.00 pm
\n20. & 21.06. \/ 25., 26., 27. &amp; 28.06.2014 at 8.00 pm<\/p>\n

\u201cAnita Berber \u2013 Reconstructed\u201d
\n<\/strong>Lecture Performance in German language
\nPremiere 19. 06.2014 at 8.00 pm
\n22.06. 2014 at 6.00 pm, followed by \u201cUnheimliche Geschichten\u201d
\n<\/em>29.06.2014 at 6.00 pm, followed by \u201cArtistic Radicality Today \u2013 Anita\u2019s Heirs\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cUnheimliche Geschichten\u201d
\n<\/strong>Screening with Live DJ-Set with D\u00b4dread
\n22.06.2014 at 8.00 pm<\/p>\n

\u201cAnita\u2019s Heirs – Artistic Radicality Today<\/strong>\u201d
\n<\/strong>Discussion with International Performers\u00a0Nezaket Ekici, Beatrice Cordua and Florentina Holzinger.
\nModerated by: Margarita Tsomou
\n29.06.2014 at 8.00 pm<\/p>\n

Attendance is free – please send an advanced notice of visit to tickets@msschrittmacher.de<\/p>\n

\u201cAnita Berber \u2013 Study\u201c
\n<\/strong>First Publication of Joe Jen\u010d\u00edk\u2019s in German
\n19.06.2014 prior to the premiere of the lecture performance<\/p>\n

The Performance ANITA BERBER \u2013 She Wears Her Nudity in the Face\u00a0<\/strong>made\u00a0a\u00a0guest\u00a0appearance on the 14th and \u00a015th of October 2015\u00a0at\u00a0Saarl\u00e4ndischen Staatstheater.\u00a0<\/strong>The ANITA BERBER \u2013 Lecture Performance was shown on the 17th of October 2015. Both at the\u00a0TANZ FESTIVAL SAAR<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0TEAM\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Research, Reconstruction, Choreography: <\/strong>Martin Stiefermann
\nReconstruction, Dance: <\/strong>Cora Frost, Brit Rodemund, Maria Walser
\nResearch, Dramaturgy, Text: <\/strong>Hartmut Schrewe
\nArtistic Advice: <\/strong>Efrat Stempler
\nScenography: <\/strong>Anike Sedello
\nMusic: <\/strong>Albrecht Ziepert
\nPiano: <\/strong>David Schwarz
\nDJ: <\/strong>D\u00b4dread
\nLighting Design: <\/strong>Max Wikstr\u00f6m
\nAssistant Director: <\/strong>Antje Rose
\nResearch Assistants: <\/strong>Johanna Withelm, Karolina Keller
\nProduction Management: <\/strong>ehrliche arbeit \u2013 freelance office for culture
\nProduction Assistant:<\/strong> Franziska Ruhnau
\nCommunication: <\/strong>k3 berlin
\nSocial Media:<\/strong> Patricia Spies
\nTech: <\/strong>Fabian Bleisch
\nWork Experience: <\/strong>Milen Zhelev
\nPhotos\/Artwork:<\/strong> Andreas J.Etter
\nGraphic Design:<\/strong> Peter Junge<\/p>\n

A\u00a0\u2794\u00a0MS Schrittmacher production. In cooperation with the Anita Berber Archive \u2013 Lothar Fischer, the Mime Centrum \/ ITI and the K. Kieser Verlag. Supported by LICHTblick B\u00fchnentechnik, DINAMIX and Theaterhaus Mitte. Media Partners: radioeins, tanz, taz.die tageszeitung, Berliner Fenster
\n<\/strong>
\nFunded by TANZFONDS ERBE \u2013 An initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation.<\/p>\n

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