Ghostcity on Tour! Part 3: Leipzig

More or less the only picture from Leipzig, as there wasn't time to take any more.
Building up (THANK YOU!, Jonas & Anna!), performing, tearing down.

Ah, wait, there is one more:
Enjoy my favorite toilet space!

And go visit the Lindenfels Westflügel! It's an amazing building, theatre and place to meet people!

Ghostcity on Tour! Part 1: Magdeburg

First part of the journey: Magdeburg!

Unfortunately, this

led to that

so that we didn't get further than this

. The hall would have been amazing for our purposes though, and Ralf and his crew who had already started to set up the technical side of our show seemed to be great to work with..
I can fully understand the reasons for cancelling the festival.
Still. It would have been a bliss to work with the people we met and perform for Magdeburg's and the festival's audience! Hoping that it'll really be possible to postphone the whole thing to 2014!

Unten / Down on Tour

Photographer: F.E.Samethini

Drawer & me & spectators in Amersfoort, Netherlands - Franje Festival



Photographer: Dino Caracciolo

Drawer & me & SOS-Button in Luzern, Switzerland - Fumetto Festival

Thanks for amazing audiences!
There have been other towns & festivals as well, but I've yet to learn to either take a camera myself or to contact people who take pictures immediately - once I'm with a spectator it's hard to jump after someone.

Apart from touring Life & Art & Theatre still hold me firmly in their grips, which is the reason for this blog's bareness. But soon another building period will come, and with it hopefully one or another photograph of stuff in progress.

Unten / Down

Unten / Down
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A 3-dimensional comic, a zograscope.

So much happened during the last months in which I didn't write anything here, but this probably is the most important thing. Johanna Seipelt and me were planning, thinking, building, rehearsing, and, finally, performing ... And now it's done, at least for now.

Thanks a lot to all the visitors of the Comicsalon Erlangen who came to watch, enjoy, discuss, and also to those who spread the word so that it actually became nearly impossible to start packing on sunday evening, as there were always new people running towards us, trying to get a last glance into our cupboard.



(There might be happening some post-dated blog entries.. Keep your eyes open.)

Ghostcity

Two more months have passed, and now it's done: Ghostcity exists!
The first 6 evenings in front of audience are done, one more to go in Basel, then moving to Aarau next week to perform there, then we're off to Frankfurt/Main. A filled summer.
It's good to have audience now, it's a bliss to perform, and I'm very happy with the results of our work. Hooray!

(Uppest picture photographed by Donata Ettlin,
Ghostcity-poster designed by Johanna Seipelt.)

Life, at the moment:

My Rehearsal Space is my Castle

I didn't see much of Switzerland yet, instead I spend hours with my lovely new jigsaw in this lovely huge hall.

GhostCity / ProtoCity

Showed the Proto "Corner Cuts" in Stuttgart, and was extremely happy with it. Lovely audience, great feedbacks, and amazing work of Marius Kob, who built and planned it so far. Now summer needs to come, when it's time to move to Switzerland to make the GhostCity happen! Meanwhile I'm collecting sounds and noises and city-stories.

Ghostcity

I'm going to spend this summer in Switzerland, traveling between Bern, Basel, and Aarau. There will be three of us, Marius Kob, Pauline Drünert an me; researching, building, rehearsing. Premiere will be in september.

But: There will be a preview already this may!
At the NEWZ!-Festival in Stuttgart, under the title "Corner Cuts".
Fr 06.05. 19h30 / 21h45 / 22h40.
Free entrance, but the audience number is limited to 12 people per show - book your seat!

Ravenboy / Rabenjunge

"Ravenboy" is an animated short movie for which I was part of the puppet building team, and for which I also puppeteered in the summer of 2009 (pictures of the movie & the making of at the Homepage). Now, 1,5 years later, the movie finally has its premiere:
At the Berlinale 2011, taking place from 10th-20th of february!

It's nominated in two categories:
"Kurzfilme 2 Kplus" and "Generation Mix".

13.02. 14:00 Haus der Kulturen der Welt Kino 2
14.02. 11:30 CinemaxX 3
15.02. 10:00 Filmtheater am Friedrichshain
20.02. 16:00 CinemaxX 5

Additional dates are at the Filmfest Dresden / International Shortfilm Festival,
taking place 12.-17.04.

It will also be shown at the NEWZ!-Festival in Stuttgart, Mi 04.05. 19:00.

As well as at the 18th International Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart,
in the Category "Young Animation", Programm 1,
taking place 03.-08.05.

Go and see!