Theater Dortmund
Dortmund, Germany

So there they are, pulling their strings, the creatures of Gioachino Rossini and Cesare Sterbini, linked to their ancient roots in the commedia dell'arte and reshaped by Beaumarchais' cautiously censorship-fearing revolutionary thoughts. In Dortmund, Martin G. Berger, born in 1987, makes a marionette play from the “Barber of Seville” at the beginning of Heribert Germeshausen ’s management, ruthlessly adapts Rossini’s immortal musical comedy to his own needs and, after a resigned, futile revolution, leaves the opera “against the fixed rules of a society” rather damaged. Berger was assistant director and evening director at the Dortmund Opera from 2009 to 2012, has been working freelance since 2015 and has undermined operatic conventions in Heidelberg with a few productions such as “The Bartered Bride” in Hanover or Charles Gounod’s “Faust”, which broke with Jelinek texts. For this he was nominated for the theater prize "Der Faust", which will be awarded in November 2018. In Augsburg, Berger developed a new version of the Paul Abraham operetta "Roxy and her miracle team", a touching, stringently told story about the exclusion of gay athletes in commercial football. A lot of creative things - Berger is considered one of the "upcoming" directors of the younger generation.