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Alice Special Recording
Although it was without live audience, there is a live recording of the performance Songs for Alice Special Edition from the end of April at Westfluegel Leipzig! Listen on https://soundcloud.com/wildevogel.
Biotopes of the Virus - a streamed talk
About ticks, SARS-CoV-2 & an asymmetric war against culture
Livestream in English language: Saturday, 9. May, 20h / www.westfluegel.de / #westfluegelstream
What does it mean to work and think independently and be a freelance theatre artist in these times?
This was the starting question for the one year project Biotopia of Grupa Coincentia from Białystok, and the two companies Wilde & Vogel and Lehmann und Wenzel from Leipzig in 2018. From this they developed the Documentary Kukułka in 2019, meandering between world war II, dusty pickle glasses, Jewish graveyards and obsessive sexual fantasies, great and greatly demanding for the audience.
Due to a virus the project nearly failed already in the beginning (tick!), due to a virus the planned performances in May are cancelled (SARS-CoV2). What seems to be an asymetrical war against practised creativity can also be seen on the background of another asymetrical conflict: the political conditions for freelance theatre - in Poland and Germany.
Connecting these themes in a talk, Westfluegel Leipzig will livestream a discussion with the team of Biotopia and Kukułka. Using chat the audience will have the possibility to send comments, questions and to interact.
Again and as before we ask you to please buy tickets for performances even if we cannot invite you to be there (www.westfluegel.de or E-Mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Donations to Westfluegel are also welcome and helpful: Betterplace donation to Westfluegel.
Songs for Alice Live-Stream
Unfortunately we can still not invite audience to our next shows of Songs for Alice - Special Edition in April at Westfluegel Leipzig. Through the technical possibilities of Streamio Leipzig and the financial support of Studio Gold Leipzig there will be yet another Live-Stream. You are warmly invited!
Songs for Alice Live-Stream 25. April at 21h on www.westfluegel.de / #westfluegelstream
Again and as before we ask you to please buy tickets for performances even if we cannot invite you to be there (www.westfluegel.de or E-Mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Donations to Westfluegel are also welcome and helpful: Betterplace donation to Westfluegel.
Protect Laika Live-Stream
Hoping to keep contact to you, our audience, we are planning another Live-Stream and warmly invite you to watch and listen:
Concert session Protect Laika (Stefan Wenzel, Charlotte Wilde) Saturday 11th April 22h: www.westfluegel.de
#westfluegelstream / Thank you Marc Müller and Andreas Piasek for supporting the stream!
Again and as before we ask you to please buy tickets for performances even if we cannot invite you to be there (www.westfluegel.de or E-Mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Donations to Westfluegel are also welcome and helpful: Betterplace donation to Westfluegel.
This initiative points to the precarious situation of freelance artists:
#ticketgleichspende / #kultursolidarisieren
Covid 19 and Live-Stream
Also our performances and tours are cancelled due to Covid-19. What this will mean for our work is not predictable yet. We can only hope that live performances will possible again soon.
After the cancellation of shows in Potsdam and Aarau, we have the possibility to do a Live-stream of "Krabat" at Westfluegel Leipzig with the support of Streamio Leipzig. A ghost performance in two ways: not only the audience is missing but also our two colleagues of Grupa Coincidentia who are not able to leave Poland.
Krabat - according to circumstances! Live-stream Saturday 21.03. from 19:30:
https://vimeo.com/398839161
www.westfluegel.de
The loss of fees after cancelled shows can not be balanced by shifting dates. Please buy tickets for performances even if we cannot invite you to be there (www.westfluegel.de or E-Mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Donations to Westfluegel are also welcome and helpful: Betterplace donation to Westfluegel.
This initiative points to the precarious situation of freelance artists:
#ticketgleichspende / #kultursolidarisieren
Things on Strings
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19!
Workshop at Westflügel Leipzig from 30.03. to 01.04.2020.
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The figure on the string will be researched in this workshop, starting with simple constructions, always with a view to the theatrical impression. Movement and construction are entwined, workshop and stage become one. The material can be light or heavy, small or big, shaped or unformed - the goal is always to find a coherent, authentic animation through strings.
Tour to Israel
One year after the German Premiere Dust is eventually also going to be shown in Israel, home of our partners and colleagues Inbal Yomtovian and Ari Teperberg (Golden Delicious).
There will be three performances:
Workshops in Stuttgart and Tel Aviv
There will be a workshop with Michael Vogel about Marionettes: Things on Strings from 22. to 24.10.2019 for students of the Department of Puppetry and Animation at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst.
During our tour to Israel there will be another workshop about animation on 20.11.2019 at the School for Puppetry and Drama in Tel Aviv.
German Premiere Little Shop of Horrors
A Horror-Musical by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman
After the great success of the first Polish version of Little Shop of Horrors [Sklep z potwornsciami] at BTL Białystok, this production, directed by Michael Vogel, will finally perform in Germany:
Production: Białostocki Teatr Lalek [PL] ::: Puppets, Stage and Direction: Michael Vogel
Thu 26., Fri 27. und Sat 28.09.2019, 21h at Westflügel Leipzig I More
Dust at at.tension #8
After performing Songs for Alice two years ago, we are invited to come back:
Dust will be at the at.tension 2019!
06., 07. and 08.09. 2019 at.tension festival
Alice Special in Berlin
Songs for Alice Special Version (featuring Philipp Scholz/drums, Konrad Schreiter/trumpet, Thomas Weber/tableguitar) will be performed twice more this autumn at the Festival Klang der Dinge at Schaubude Berlin and at this year's edition of the Pole Poppenspäler Tage Husum.
05.09. 2019 Schaubude Berlin
29.09.2019 Husum
Trying to Sit on the Air again
After several try-outs in 2018 with Lehmann und Wenzel (Leipzig) about air as a material on stage we are once more staging the production with members of the Gewandhaus-Choir Leipzig with their conductor Gregor Meyer. Directed by Franziska Merkel.
12., 13. and 14. July 2019 at Westflügel Leipzig.
Premiere Kukułka
A Co-production with Lehmann und Wenzel (Leipzig) and Grupa Coincidentia (Białystok).
History and present of Westflügel Leipzig (originally built as a ballroom, industrially used from the 30s to the 60s) and Solniki 44 (barn theatre on a former farm in the forest near Białystok/PL) are in the centre of this performance directed by Łukasz Kos.
Premiere D: 21. June 2019 at Westflügel Leipzig
Premiere PL: 6. August 2019 Zmiana Klimatu
Little shop of Horrors in Białystok
At BTL Białystok (PL) Michael Vogel directed the first Polish version of the Musical "Little Shop of Horrors" (Dramaturgy: Janne Weirup).
Premiere at Białostocki Teatr Lalek November 2018. More
New Production 2018
Staub - Dust - אבק is the title of our new production together with Ari Teperberg and Inbal Yomtovian of the Israeli group Golden Delicious. A theatre production which dissolves time and space, combines big bangs and black holes of personal and collective (his)story and dares to face the present.
Co-production with FITZ! Stuttgart and Westflügel Leipzig.
Premiere: 31.10.2018 at Westflügel Leipzig. More