Retrospection: July 2014

July started well with COLORI at the Memminger Meile! The audience welcomed us with a long applause even before we had done anything. Greatest way to start a show!

Photos: Monika Sparakowski

A picture from backstage I love because of the crooked humour: Even COLORIs (and their family) need to account:

I'm still waiting for photographs of COLORI's show at the Schauwerk Sindelfingen. Green, Red and White behaved beautifully Italian to match the evening's theme of an Italian Night.


Unten was shown at the Festival der Straßenkunst in Haslach.

Photos: Manfred Pagel


And between all this I was extremely lucky to be able to spend some time on Helgoland. For just holiday-y reasons. And it was beautiful!

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 2: Sudden free day...

Working and recherching for Ghostcity somehow opened my eyes concerning architecture.
Remember this entry?
Around that time it started.
Having grown up in more or less rural surroundings I have this huge longing for idyllic spaces, for wood, meadows, sheep in the backyard...
But somehow this is beautiful as well:

Olvenstedt, part of Magdeburg. It's rather weird to stroll through the streets, as so many houses have been teared down already, so many more are empty. It was sunday around noon, and no one was on the streets. Just those huge green spaces, many trees, and houses that nearly appeared to be lost in those greening surroundings.
We stumbled over a handball tournament later, which explained the extreme emptyness on the streets, but still.
Ghostcity gone green.

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.)