A musical thriller

The wild 80s on Hamburg's Kiez: the sex business is in full swing, the power struggles in the red light district are escalating and in the midst of it all, a contract killer with white leather gloves is terrifying the whole scene: Werner "Mucki" Pinzner. Pinzner killed at least five pimps, including Lackschuh-Dieter and Corvette-Rolf, on behalf of neighborhood bigwig and pimp "Wiener Peter". The series of murders ended with Pinzner's staged suicide at police headquarters - after the Kiez killer also shot his wife Jutta and public prosecutor Wolfgang Bistry.

With Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli,the Philharmonic State Orchestra and Schmidt's Tivoli jointly bring one of the most sensational criminal cases in the history of the Hanseatic city to the stage: General Music Director Omer Meir Wellber, journalist Axel Brüggemann and Martin Lingnau, composer and artistic director at Schmidt's, reopen the case using original documents, witness statements, pictures and films and transform it into a musical stage thriller set to Prokofiev's world-famous music.

Peter and the Wolf of St. Pauli tells the adventurous story of the rise of a criminal in the changing, increasingly tough neighborhood, but also of the self-sacrificing, perhaps already sick love of his wife, who ultimately goes to her death with him, of a lawyer who smuggles a gun into the police headquarters for the murderer and of the naive and completely overtaxed police.

Prokofiev's classic meets St. Pauli - you've never heard the Kiez like this before. His music lends emotional and surprising perspectives to this historical criminal case. What a start to our cooperation with the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra!