Five students of the HfMDK put Grimms' Fairy Taleson on stage and produce five different performances. The performer will be the same in each play. The different fairy tales will perform in series.

The fairy tale knows the evil, the cryptic and the mysterious like scarcely any other form of prose. Nothing is glossed over or minimised. It is as ubiquitous as good. In those cosy scares and shudders triggered by the evil in fairy tales we encounter ourselves and discover sides to ourselves we would otherwise prefer to conceal. The generally simplified categorisation of characteristics and actions in fairy tales into good and evil is questioned time and again.   

Armed with Böse Märchen the five students of direction Tarik Goetzke, Carolin Millner, Simon Möllendorf, Marie Mühlan and Ksenia Ravvina, accompanied by four musicians from a variety of specialisations, embark upon a journey into the world of fairy tales. Based on five different fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, the students find their very own personal entry into eerie territory and in a joint stage set co-design an evening of mysterious encounters: here we meet headstrong girls, twelve brothers, a clever Hans, an evil man and two hens.
It is a world trip into the origins of narration and explanation where people can claim back their roots and where evil also plays a key role as a driving force.

FAIRY TALE BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM AT FRANKFURT LAB
Der Tod des Hühnchens
Herr Korbes
Frau Trude
Die zwölf Brüder
Der gescheite Hans

ACTORS Damjan Batistiæ, Sabrina Frank, Markus Gläser, Sidonie von Krosigk,
Philipp Quest, Regina Vogel, Stephan Weber, Carina Zichner
DIRECTION Tarik Goetzke, Carolin Millner, Simon Möllendorf, Marie Mühlan, Ksenia Ravvina
DRAMATURGY Tina Ebert, Caroline Rohmer
STAGE Sabine Born
COSTUMES Nils Wildegans
COSTUME ASSISTENC Sabine Schneider
MUSIC Lennart Fleischer, Markus Gläser, Johannes Otto Reischmann, Moritz Thiele
PRODUCTION Nina Koch
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Groß

PROJECT MANAGEMENT Prof. Hans-Ulrich Becker (Fachbereich3 HfMDK Frankfurt a. M.)
LECTURER Thomas Hertel, Dr. Susanne Winnacker
HFG OFFENBACH Prof. rosalie (field Stage- and Costume), Berit Mohr (mentoring Costumes), Nina Zoller (Mentoring Stage)
HFMDK FRANKFURT Prof. Ernst August Klötzke (Composition), Prof. Marion Tiedtke (Performing Arts),
Prof. Thomas Schmidt (Theater- and Orchestramanagement)   
GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Müller-Schöll (Dramatics und Dramaturgy)

PUBLIC REHEARSALS AT THE FRANKFURT LAB
June 28, 2012, July 5 - 8th, 2012

ADMISSION FREE

DURATION 90 minutes


FURTHER PERFORMANCES
June 30st, 2012, 8 pm,  Brentanopark, Frankfurt am Main
September 2st & 23rd, 2012, 7.30 pm, Comoedienhaus Wilhelmsbad, Hanau
October 19th & 20th, November 2nd,3rd, 9th & 10th, 8 pm, Theater Heidelberg


Ermöglicht durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain im Rahmen des Projekts „Impuls Romantik“.
Das Projekt „Böse Märchen“ ist Teil der Veranstaltungsreihe „Via Brentano – Route der Romantik“, initiiert durch die KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain und den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.