THE MAKING OF BERLIN – 2020
7 July 2016. Not long after a Zvizdal performance during the Berliner Festspiele BERLIN’s Bart Baele and Yves Degryse bump into a plucky 90-year-old German. They chat in the foyer and immediately become fascinated with the man’s life story. Telephone numbers are exchanged. A couple of chats and as many weeks later the two decide to make him the centre of a show: a dyed-in-the-wool Berliner who, for years, worked as orchestra stagemanager for the Berliner Philharmoniker.
The making of Berlin tells the story of a man with an exceptional track record who would love to travel back in time to finish an unfinished chapter of his life. BERLIN helps him reenact and make this unfulfilled dream come true. That’s the idea anyway. Soon, however, cracks appear in his story, and a spanner is thrown in the works.
The show is the final part in the Holocene Cycle, the framework within which BERLIN has been making city portraits over the course of 15 years. After Jerusalem, Iqaluit, Bonanza, Moscow and Zvizdal comes this last segment that takes place in the city of Berlin. The making of Berlin is another intriguing narrative with live musicians on stage, true-to-life stories and documentary images.
photo © Koen Broos
The making of Berlin
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Credits
| Concept & direction | BERLIN [Bart Baele and Yves Degryse] | Video | BERLIN and Geert De Vleesschauwer |
| Video editing | BERLIN and Geert De Vleesschauwer | Scenography | Manu Siebens and BERLIN |
| Musical composition | Peter Van Laerhoven | Music | Tim Coenen and Peter Van Laerhoven |
| Technical coordination | Manu Siebens and Geert De Vleesschauwer | Production management | Jessica Ridderhof |
| Research Germany | Cornelius Puschke and Lisa Homburger | Internship research | Annika Serong |
| Production | BERLIN | Business Management | Kurt Lannoye |
| Administration | Jane Seynaeve | Distribution | Eveline Martens |
| Communications | Sam Loncke |
Coproductions
deSingel international arts campus [Antwerp, BE], le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR], Opera Ballet Vlaanderen [BE], Vooruit [Ghent, BE], more tbc With the support of C-TAKT [Limburg, BE], the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government (Podiumfonds) - BERLIN is creative associate at deSingel international arts campus [Antwerp, BE] and artiste associé at le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR]
deSingel international arts campus [Antwerp, BE], le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR], Opera Ballet Vlaanderen [BE], Vooruit [Ghent, BE], more tbc With the support of C-TAKT [Limburg, BE], the Flemish Government, Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government (Podiumfonds) - BERLIN is creative associate at deSingel international arts campus [Antwerp, BE] and artiste associé at le CENTQUATRE-PARIS [FR]