Zimmer 248, mit Balkon

In the organizer's words:

Old Fire Station (stage)

20.09.2025 | 20:00 h

21.09.2025 | 18:00 h

Room 248, with balcony - an evening between absurd humor and deadly seriousness, brutality and tenderness. Director Violetta von der Heydt and composer Christoph Maria Wagner take a new look at cult author Charles Bukowski with excellent actors and five instrumentalists - who was actually vulnerable, melancholy and terribly sentimental, who loved classical music and couldn't stand rock music. His image of a society that only knows winners and doesn't care about the losers is more relevant than ever. Amidst love affairs, poetry readings and rants, a drama of human existence unfolds, at the end of which "Master Death" inevitably stands.

Christoph Maria Wagner, composition

Violetta von der Heydt, direction

Boris Jacoby, acting

Christiane Oelze, soprano

Renatus Mészár, bass-baritone

Wardy Hamburg, saxophone

Yoshiki Matsuura, trombone

Adya Khanna-Fontenla, violoncello

Carsten Langer, percussion

Christoph Maria Wagner, keys

Daniel Swoboda, light and sound

Julia Mädrich, public relations

Supported by:

Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW; Cultural Office of the City of Cologne

Cooperation partner: Klang Köln e.V. / www.klang-köln.de