SLG Celje - Rose Bernd

Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 –1946), a German dramatist and novelist, is counted among the most important representative of German literary naturalism. At the early age he ran into problems with his teachers and the better treatment of his higher class (noble) classmates. His dislike of school and illness which kept him from attending class, led to his having to repeat his first year. He contracted a life-threatening lung ailment that troubled him for the rest of his life. He studied sculpture, philosophy, literary history and drawing. Gradually he developed a strong interest in the theatre. In Berlin he joined the naturalist literary club Durch which included among others Karl Bleibtreu (co-founder of Berlin theatre Deutsche Bühne) and Wilhelm Bölsche (editor of naturalist magazine Freie Bühne named after the Freie Bühne theatre).
During this period he began to write. His first work in 1888 was a novella Signalman Thiel. His first plays Before Daybreak and The Weavers were staged by Otto Brahm, manager of the Freie Bühne.
In 1910 his first novel was published, The Fool in Christ: Emanuel Quint. This was followed by Atlantis in 1912 which was filmed in 1913.
Around the turn of the century, Hauptmann began to receive official recognition. Three times he was awarded the Austrian Franz Grillparzer Prize. He also received honorary doctorates from Worcester College at Oxford in 1905 and from the University of Leipzig in 1909. In 1912, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
His play Rose Bernd premiered in 1903 in Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1919 it was filmed in black-white, in 1957 a new film version was made in colour to be followed by a television version made in 1998.
Hauptmann found inspiration for his play Rose Bernd in a true story of a 25-year old baby-murderer Hedwig Otto. Rose is a young girl torn between her desires and other people’s expectations. She has been postponing her wedding to August Klein for three years. Her father desperately wants her to marry him and move to his house as this would solve his financial problems. Flamm, a married man, flirts with Rose and keeps making excuses for not forsaking his disabled bedridden wife. Rose falls in love with him. Streckmann, the machinist, comes along and insinuates that he knows very well what had been going on between her and Flamm. Rose becomes pregnant, which is why she decides to marry August after all, although he is not the father of her baby. A series of unfortunate events and evil acts by envious and resentful villagers bring Rose to kill her baby.
Rose Bernd tells a dramatic story of a young woman, trapped within traditional and constraining surroundings. Her fall from grace is caused by her unconventional and socially unaccepted deeds. It is a moving portrayal of a ruin of a young woman who wants more from life than her constrained surroundings can offer her.

Translator Mojca Kranjc
Director Mateja Koležnik
Dramaturg Nika Leskovšek
Set Designer Marko Japelj
Costume Designer Alan Hranitelj
Music Selection and Vocal Coaching Simon Dvoršak
Choreographer Magdalena Reiter
Language Consultant Jože Volk

Cast
Bernd Bojan Umek / Branko Završan
Rose Bernd Liza Marija Grašič
Christoph Flamm Andrej Murenc
Mrs. Flamm Pia Zemljič / Lučka Počkaj
Arthur Streckmann Igor Žužek
August Keil Aljoša Koltak
Martin David Čeh
Labourers at Flamm's Barbara Medvešček, Manca Ogorevc, Tanja Potočnik, Igor Sancin, Damjan M. Trbovc

Opening 6 May 2016

Performance duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes. No interval.

Rose Bernd is presented under the license of Felix Bloch Erben Agency, Berlin, Germany.

Liza Marija Grašič, Andrej Murenc
Igor Žužek, Liza Marija Grašič
Aljoša Koltak, Bojan Umek, Igor Žužek
Liza Marija Grašič, Igor Žužek
Igor Žužek, Bojan Umek, David Čeh, Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič
Bojan Umek, Aljoša Koltak, David Čeh, Barbara Medvešček, Tanja Potočnik, Igor Sancin
B. Umek, A. Koltak, D. Čeh, B. Medvešček, T. Potočnik, I. Žužek, D. M. Trbovc, I. Sancin
Aljoša Koltak, Pia Zemljič, Bojan Umek
Andrej Murenc, Aljoša Koltak, Pia Zemljič, Bojan Umek
Andrej Murenc, Tanja Potočnik, Pia Zemljič, Aljoša Koltak, Bojan Umek
Andrej Murenc, Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič, Bojan Umek
Bojan Umek, Liza Marija Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič, Bojan Umek
Aljoša Koltak, Bojan Umek, Liza Marija Grašič
Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič
Aljoša Koltak, Bojan Umek, Liza Marija Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič
Liza Marija Grašič, Pia Zemljič
Liza Marija Grašič, Pia Zemljič
Pia Zemljič, Liza Marija Grašič
Tanja Potočnik, Andrej Murenc, Barbara Medvešček, Damjan M. Trbovc, Igor Sancin, Manca Ogorevc
D. M. Trbovc, M. Ogorevc, T. Potočnik, B. Medvešček, I. Sancin, B. Umek, A. Koltak
Damjan M. Trbovc, Manca Ogorevc, Tanja Potočnik, Igor Sancin, Barbara Medvešček
Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič, Manca Ogorevc, Tanja Potočnik, Barbara Medvešček
Aljoša Koltak, Bojan Umek, Manca Ogorevc, Liza Marija Grašič
Foto Uroš Hočevar / SLG Celje
Damjan M. Trbovc, Tanja Potočnik, Barbara Medvešček, Igor Žužek, Igor Sancin, Liza Marija Grašič
I. Žužek, M. Ogorevc, I. Sancin, D. M. Trbovc, B. Medvešček, B. Umek, L. M. Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič
Igor Žužek, Liza Marija Grašič
Igor Žužek, Liza Marija Grašič
A. Murenc, D. M. Trbovc, T. Potočnik, B. Medvešček, M. Ogorevc, L. M. Grašič, I. Sancin
Andrej Murenc, Igor Žužek
Andrej Murenc, Pia Zemljič
Tanja Potočnik, Andrej Murenc, Pia Zemljič
Pia Zemljič, Andrej Murenc
Pia Zemljič, Andrej Murenc
Pia Zemljič, Aljoša Koltak
Pia Zemljič, Aljoša Koltak
Pia Zemljič, Tanja Potočnik, Andrej Murenc
Pia Zemljič
Andrej Murenc, Pia Zemljič
Andrej Murenc, Liza Marija Grašič, Pia Zemljjič
Pia Zemljič, Tanja Potočnik
Igor Sancin, David Čeh
Liza Marija Grašič, Igor Sancin, David Čeh
David Čeh, Liza Marija Grašič
Aljoša Koltak
Liza Marija Grašič, Aljoša Koltak
Liza Marija Grašič
Liza Marija Grašič, Bojan Umek
Aljoša Koltak, Liza Marija Grašič
L. M. Grašič, B. Medvešček, T. Potočnik, M. Ogorevc, P. Zemljič, D. M. Trbovc, D. Čeh

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