Dagmar Borrmann // Goethes „Faust II“ – die Playmobilshow

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Goethe's "Faust II" - the Playmobil show
by and with Dagmar Borrmann
Music: Sabine Lippold and Andreas Nordheim
Camera: Olaf Herrmann

"Habe nun ach!" and "Vom Eise befreit" - many people know these famous passages from Goethe's "Faust I". But what is "Faust II" about? For most people, this is a closed book. And we want to change that!

Dagmar Borrmann tells the story of what happens to Faust and Mephisto with the help of Playmobil figures. As these are notoriously small, she is assisted by cameraman Olaf Herrmann, who beams everything onto the screen. Undaunted, colorful plastic toys shoulder the flights of fancy of German poetry and create aha-effects non-stop. The supposedly dry educational material becomes an exciting journey through our world. And is surprisingly quirky and funny!

The rollercoaster ride through the big and small worlds is accompanied by musical miniatures created especially for this show by Sabine Lippold and Andreas Nordheim and performed live.

Dagmar Borrmann is a dramaturge and university lecturer. She has worked as head dramaturge at Schauspiel Leipzig and in the drama department of Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

As part of a guest professorship, she taught scenic writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. At the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, she held a professorship for acting and was head of the course.

Since 2013, Dagmar Borrmann has been performing material from world literature with Playmobil figures, including Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung", with which she was invited to Bayreuth in 2024.

Sabine Lippold (dance/theater) and Andreas Nordheim (music) have been involved in artistic research for many years. In their projects, they help people to experience artistic processes. Sabine Lippold also works as a lecturer in theater directing at the HfMDK in Frankfurt/Main. Andreas Nordheim is a member of the cooperative New Jazz e.V. in the Walkmühle in Wiesbaden.

Olaf Hermann is a filmmaker and cameraman. After a stay in the USA, he completed various internships in film, including with Volker Schlöndorff. Since then, he has been working on short films and documentaries, often in collaboration with the Wiesbaden Media Center, the Hessian State Theatre Wiesbaden, various social institutions and artists of all genres.

For viewers aged 12 and over