The Beginning

A live theater science fiction film in cooperation with Lebenshilfe Nürnberg and Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG

Reservation for performance 29th/30th Octobre 2025

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The inclusive project mixes science fiction, drama and film and asks how life on another planet could be possible and necessary. The idea of inclusion is incorporated both on a fictional level and in the artistic exploration itself.

About the project

The mixed-abled ensemble for THE BEGINNING worked, researched, improvised, filmed and developed a kaleidoscope of science fiction scenes over two and a half years. Thematically, the team orbited the eve of the end of the world in cinematic situations, the flight to Planet X in a cramped, anxiety-ridden spaceship and the luxurious decadence after arriving in Mars orbit. The result is a visually powerful, sometimes dark, but also quirky and humorous live film with an ensemble that enables intergenerational and inclusive professional artistic work.
The film set with cameraman can be seen on stage. Situations, close-ups and dialog are projected live onto the cinema screen above the stage. Wireless headphones immerse the audience in a world of sound effects and film music by Hania Rani, Jan Pfitzer, Brice Deloose, AC/DC and Vivaldi.
The cinematic level is interrupted and enriched by almost documentary-like interludes of the film team during set changes, costume changes and conversations in between. The actors' voices and thoughts mingle with the characters in the film world.
The production creates the density and tension of a film and at the same time offers the abstraction of the theatrical level. The often gloomy images in contrast to the joy of the ensemble's performance trigger associations with the fragility of our planet, mankind's megalomania to conquer space, but also with charity and caring for one another.

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From the process ...

A young girl devastated, a man building himself a kind of space capsule, a woman in the dark - singing a lullaby - pushing an empty baby carriage, quickly packing a suitcase, a prayer, the empty gaze of a woman, left alone in a wheelchair. How is the world doing? Cut!
Scientists in blue light, sterile gowns, strange food, the logbook with an astronomical label - is this the future? - People in panic at the sound of spaceship sirens. Cut!
Politicians in heated debate. Will the spacesuits be enough for all of humanity? Is Planet X really permanently habitable? Is leaving Earth irreversible? Fast, hectic camera movements, the film projected live onto the back wall, a close-up, closer and closer, eyes wide open. Cut!
The film team interrupts. Or is it even the fiction of the film team that interrupts? Is this where the theater situation ends? What is this? Conversations between the real actors Matthias Eberle and Andree John, others have to have a drink. Autobiographical insights. Worries. Fantastic ideas for the future. Real annoyances about playgrounds that are not wheelchair accessible.

Info

Premiere May 09, 2025 in the Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG, Großer Saal
With Norbert Habel-Kill, Andree John, Isabel Langhans, Ralph Lauschner, Rosy Lea Iorga, Fenea Scharf, Eva-Maria Weiß, Lotta Marie Wieners, Emilia Zahner, Matthias Eberle, Rebecca Kirchmann, Niklas Kammermeier
as well as (in the video) Adelheid Grellner, Jan Stebner, Tim Steinheimer, Filip Kränzlein, Karin Ibrahim, Elke Schestak, Silvia Seitzinger,
Concept and direction: Gunnar Seidel
Camera: Niklas Kammermeier
Set design: Maria Pfeiffer
Costume: Anna Winde-Hertling
Dramaturgy: Dominik Breuer
Video and sound technician Gunnar Seidel, Miho Kasama
Stage technician and lighting Johannes Ziegler
Video editing (news): Felix Kramer
Video recording: Florian Reichart
German sign language: Tatjana Mehlhorn, Agnes Kraus
Audio description: Jürgen Heimüller (Everybody Access)
Assistants: Adelheid Grellner, Karin Thiele, Uta-Maria Siegmann, Nina Kränzlein, Dennis Heumann
Carpentry Sven Jager
Production: Julia Opitz, Karo Krämer
Production management Lebenshilfe: Andreas Schönberger
Public relations: Anna Zahner
Social media: Felix Kramer, Annika Maaß
Management of Kulturwerkstatt Auf AEG: Daniela Drechsler-Dorst
Team-Info-Point
Administration: Karin Fluhrer-Pogner

In cooperation with the Lebenshilfe Nürnberg and the Kulturwerkstatt auf AEG

Sponsored by Aktion Mensch
as well as City of Nuremberg, Culture Division, WBG2000 Foundation, Hehl Foundation - Foundation Administration City of Nuremberg