Ein Sommer in Niendorf

In the organizer's words:

by Heinz Strunk
Director: Studio Braun

Well-off, well-dressed, well-positioned - that's how he appears, the lawyer Dr. Georg Roth. Now he dreams of being an acclaimed author. He takes time out to write a book. The choice of location falls on Niendorf, part of Timmendorfer Strand. Once a meeting place for the famous Writers' Group 47, the unglamorous seaside resort seems to be just the right choice. He gives himself three months, no more. But the writing process soon comes to a standstill. The lawyer encounters all kinds of demonic figures, petty bourgeois or proletarian, who repel him and at the same time cast a spell over him. In any case, the book project recedes more and more into the background. And the summer in Niendorf begins to engulf Dr. Roth's life.

Heinz Strunk's novel was celebrated by critics and audiences alike. His "Summer in Niendorf", it was said, was a modern "Magic Mountain". And if Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain is above all a place where time runs differently, flows and passes, the same happens in Strunk's Niendorf: the intoxicating effect of the mountain air in the North German seaside resort is, of course, achieved through extensive alcohol consumption.

The novel is brought to the stage by Studio Braun - naturally with the participation of founding member and author Heinz Strunk.

With: Yorck Dippe, Charly Hübner, Josefine Israel, Jan-Peter Kampwirth, Josef Ostendorf, Jacques Palminger, Rocko Schamoni, Heinz Strunk and Bettina Stucky

Director: Studio Braun
Stage: Stephane Laimé
Costumes: Dorle Bahlburg
Music: Studio Braun and Sebastian Hoffmann
Video: Meika Dresenkamp Meika Dresenkamp
Choreography: Rica Blunck
Lighting: Rebekka Dahnke
Band: Sebastian Hoffmann (musical director / trombone), Lieven Brunckhorst (saxophone), Ali Busse (bass), Jens Carstens (percussion), Taco van Hettinga (keyboards), Sönke Rust (guitars)
Dramaturgy: Christian Tschirner

Further information: A Summer in Niendorf | Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg