2024-07-18 13:52:28
How Claudia Roth wants to defile Green Hill with a crazy idea
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Wagnerian: Claudia Roth
Source: pa/dpa/Carsten Koall
The Richard Wagner Festival is no longer as active as it once was. You can even get tickets faster than you used to have to wait for a Trabant. The Federal Minister of Culture is concerned about this. And you have an idea to argue about.
Claudia Roth enjoys being in the party hall on Bayreuth’s Green Hill. This has nothing to do with his party and not much to do with the fact that, in his office as Minister of State for Culture and Media, he is, so to speak, one of the pillars on which the temple to Richard Wagner. stand. Now, as the ex-manager of Ton Steine Scherben who is worried and therefore Wagnerian post-punk who notices that something is happening in his area of responsibility, he has a really good idea.
Word has even reached him what sparrows have been whistling from the gutters of the Villa Wahnfried for years: things are not the way they used to be at the beginning of Wagnerianism. The ego is gone, the parties are becoming regular, you can – surprisingly – even get tickets, and faster than you used to have to wait for a satellite car.
You have to do something as a helper, you can’t just watch it happen. So why, think Claudia Roth and say cord the Bayern media group, you should not take non-Wagners in Wagners. Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel,” for example. After all, he is also a Wagnerian.
For such damage to the temple (according to the order of the master, “Rienzi” one is not allowed to do it in the festival hall) someone will have to intervene fundamentally in the festival’s procedures. But what opportunities will open up then? One can – so to speak as a counter-tetralogy to the four operas of Wagner “Ring of the Nibelung” – for all Humperinck’s Grimm operas (in addition to “Hansel and Gretel”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “Seven Little Goats” and ” Sleeping Beauty”).
You find nonsense
You can play “The Dream Is Over,” a Ton Steine Scherben song that doesn’t even exist yet. Or “Lion King” – “Hakuna Matata” is not far from “Hojotoho” of Valkyries and Wagalaweia of Rhinemaidens from “Ring”.
And the sheep remain idle. Instead of preserving and strengthening the cultural identity of a festival, as it would be its job, it leaves it to indifference and arbitrariness.
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