Der alte Mann und das Meer

In the organizer's words:

Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway
Translated and adapted for the stage by Luca Zahn
A co-production between the Altonaer Theater and Theater Lindenhof in Melchingen

The sea is a magical place that allows us to take a deep breath and usually gives us the space to think differently about life and its meaning. Perhaps we sense that all life comes from the water. At the same time, there are depths where hardly any light penetrates and just below the surface we are immersed in a completely unknown world. This is another reason why the sea has always been the starting point or motif of timeless stories.

This is also the case in the classic of world literature "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway:
The old fisherman Santiago has not caught a fish for eighty-four days and is slipping into ever greater poverty and therefore loneliness. But as he does every morning, he sets out again to try his luck. On this day, a fish finally bites. And what a fish it is. It's a big blue marlin. But it is so big that it pulls the small boat and the old man out to sea. A journey into the unknown begins and a struggle between human pride and nature, a tug-of-war with a creature from the depths. A fight for survival.

A single actor renegotiates Ernest Hemingway's story and confronts us with questions about our life's tasks, growing old and also the subject of loneliness. What do we have our time for? What do we fight for? What do we hold on to and what do we dream of?

The actor Stefan Hallmayer, multiple winner of the Monika Bleibtreu Prize, bids farewell to the stage with "The Old Man and the Sea".

Translation, stage adaptation and direction: Luca Zahn
Stage and costumes: María Martínez Peña
Music: Johannes Hofmann

With Stefan Hallmayer

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