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The Blond Ghost of Kurf\u00fcrstendamm by Wolfgang B\u00f6hmer (Music) and Peter Lund (Book\/Lyrics).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Again from 4 October, 2018\u00a0 | with English subtitles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stella is 20 years old when Hitler decrees that Berlin is to be finally made \u201cfree from Jews\u201d. Stella is blond and young and beautiful and wants to become a singer, over there, in the United States of America. Or a film star, like Marlene Dietrich. But the Goldschlag family does not receive a visa. Instead of her dream of a big career, Stella gets a yellow star. Stella hates this star as much as she hates being Jewish. And ultimately, Stella joins an underground movement. Like 8,000 other desperate Berlin Jews.
\nStella is 35 years old when she stand trial in court for crimes against humanity in the new, young Federal Republic of Germany. She is charged with uncovering over 300 people in hiding while in the service of the Gestapo, sending them on their way to certain death. The German public went head over heels in its indignation over this \u201cJewish betrayer of the people\u201d who delivered people of her own faith into the hands of the National Socialists. But no one knows what really happened. And Stella keeps her silence\u2026
\nStella Goldschlag had everything that was necessary to achieve a great career in the 20th century: blindingly good looks, the required talent and drive as well as that certain amount of ruthlessness that every true star has to have. But Stella Goldschlag was Jewish. And worse still: She claimed to not want to be Jewish. Ultimately, Stella\u2019s wish for fame came true in the most horrible way imaginable.
\nAll of Berlin knows the most efficient catcher of the Gestapo, the infamous \u201cblond ghost of Kurf\u00fcrstendamm\u201d! Stella Goldschlag\u2019s biography is a very German career. STELLA is thus also a very German piece of music theater, which serves itself from our musical past in a gleefully evil manner. The soundtrack of this UFA film that was never filmed ranges from late Romanticism to chanson, from Arnold Sch\u00f6nberg to 1930s pop.<\/p>\n

With a book by Peter Lund, congenially set to music by Wolfgang B\u00f6hmer and terrifically staged for the first time at Neuk\u00f6llner Oper by Martin G. Berger. And lest we forget: Frederike Haas in the title role, who started her career at Neuk\u00f6llner Oper as Marika R\u00f6kk and, after a detour to London\u2019s West End, has returned, after BabyTalk, to hopefully successfully launch another German musical.
\nStage Director: Martin G. Berger | Musical Director: Hans-Peter Kirchberg, Tobias Bartholme\u00df | Stage Design\/Costumes: Sarah-Katharina Karl | Dramaturgy: Carola Cohen-Friedlaender | Choreografie: Marie-Christin Zeisset | Video: Roman Rehor<\/p>\n

Featuring: J\u00f6rn-Felix Alt, Frederike Haas, Alen Hodzovic, Isabella K\u00f6pke, Victor Petitjean, Markus Sch\u00f6ttl, David Schroeder, Dennis Wei\u00dfert<\/p>\n

Von Moment zu Moment
\n\u00dcber- und Weiterleben im Alltagslabyrinth des Dritten Reiches
\nEin Rollen-Spiel mit Frederike Haas, Markus Sch\u00f6ttl und einem Radioapparat.
\nGastspiel in der Neuk\u00f6llner Oper am 18. und 22. Oktober 2018<\/span><\/a><\/h4>\n