Nicht zu Nah

Nicht

zu

Nah

Music-theatrical performance based on motifs from Schubert’s Erlkönig
With new music for countertenor, piano and electronics
Premiere: 04.04.2019, Hamburg

Nicht zu Nah interweaves interview footage with young people who have experienced sexual
violence at the hands of siblings or have themselves perpetrated assaults on brothers and
sisters, with feverish soundscapes, cinematography and choreography – stuttering narratives of
loneliness alternating with sober descriptions of hard-to-imagine emotional and physical abuse.
„What would I be if this hadn’t happened?“

Director: Michelle Affolter

Music Composition: Carlos Andrés Rico

Stage: Florence Schreiber

Costume: Lina Mayer

Film: Ruben Christiansen

Stage design assistance: Lisa Rinaldi

Dramaturgy: Mara Nitz

Assistant director: Vera Urweider

nicht zu nah

Costume design assistance: Ida Bekic & Johanna Winkler

With: Lisa Ursula Tschanz, Ben Boresch, Sara Reifenscheid, Tino Frers, Carlos Andrés Rico
and Dulguun Chinchuluun

Movement choir: Philipp Achelpöhler, Julia Berchtold, Saskia Corleis, Ryan Dykes, Kai
Hochhäusler, Celina Kröll, Anika Lamde, Maxie Léa Dévéhat Yasin Sacak, Franziska Schulze,
Sabrina Waldner, Lennart Wawro, Caroline Zintz

Director: Michelle Affolter

Music Composition: Carlos Andrés Rico

Stage: Florence Schreiber

Costume: Lina Mayer

Film: Ruben Christiansen

Dramaturgy: Mara Nitz

Assistant director: Vera Urweider

Stage design assistance: Lisa Rinaldi

Costume design assistance: Ida Bekic & Johanna Winkler

With: Lisa Ursula Tschanz, Ben Boresch, Sara Reifenscheid, Tino Frers, Carlos Andrés Rico
and Dulguun Chinchuluun

Movement choir: Philipp Achelpöhler, Julia Berchtold, Saskia Corleis, Ryan Dykes, Kai
Hochhäusler, Celina Kröll, Anika Lamde, Maxie Léa Dévéhat Yasin Sacak, Franziska Schulze,
Sabrina Waldner, Lennart Wawro, Caroline Zintz