NOperas! – Oper Otze Axt–Premiere

In the organizer's words:

MUSIC THEATER

Small House

by Dritte Degeneration Ost
Composition: Richard Grimm
Directed by: Romy Dins, Frithjof Gawenda

How do you break open the system, the state, the head - the opera? In its experimental music theater "Oper Otze Axt", inspired by the life of the East German punk anti-hero Dieter "Otze" Ehrlich, the collective Dritte Degeneration Ost explores destruction as a historical, narrative and musical motif. As a resistant protagonist, Otze experiences the increasingly disintegrating GDR, but finds no redemption in the social liberation of the fall of the Wall and the post-reunification period, only further invisible walls. Oper Otze Axt is a musical experiment with melodious operatic elements, riotous punk, sophisticated live sound design, five strings, percussion and soloists.

A production by Dritte Degeneration Ost as part of the funding initiative NOperas! - an initiative of the Fonds Experimentelles Musiktheater (feXm). In cooperation with the NRW KULTURsekretariat, the Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen and the Staatstheater Darmstadt