Stummfilmvertonung | Steamboat Bill Jr. | Björn Jentsch

In the organizer's words:

Steamboat Bill' is a dyed-in-the-wool old steamboat captain on the Mississippi. His son William (Steamboat Bill Jr.), who grew up in Boston and has never seen his father, returns. His father is less than pleased with his son, especially because of his outward appearance: this lanky lad with a small beard, beret, ukulele and fashionable clothes cannot possibly carry on the family tradition. What's more, William falls in love with the daughter of his worst rival, of all people. The young William keeps trying to get together with the daughter, but the two fathers do everything they can to prevent it. A series of entanglements and confrontations ensue, which are spectacularly staged by Buster Keaton's (William Jr.) breathtaking stunts.

Multi-instrumentalist Björn Jentsch sets Keaton's 1928 silent film masterpiece to music, making full use of various instruments (piano, melodica, percussion, ukulele) and ensuring a successful symbiosis of image and sound with a spot-on soundtrack.

Jentsch has been scoring silent films, theater and dance plays for over 20 years. His sophisticated scoring technique with the different instruments, some of which are played simultaneously, make him unique in the "scoring scene". In each of his productions, the artist puts his musical skill, his irrepressible joy of playing and his sensitivity.

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Solidarity contribution Recommendation 15-25 €