strings up! –

two pieces for forgotten puppets
Restored marionettes by Fritz Herbert Bross from the 1950s, built for Albrecht Roser and never played, are now on stage:
“totentanz recomposed” (dance of death, recomposed) and “krimi lounge” (thriller lounge)

“This is fantastic theatre: wordless, weightless, floating and invigorating.
A further development of the genre, yet aware of its roots."
Südwestpresse

Das 2te ich (The 2nd Self) –

a dream fragment by Walter Benjamin
New Year’s Eve inside Krambacher’s mind as a poetic complex
"A triumph of magic"
Südwestpresse

Nachtkonzert (Night Concert) –
le grand pas de deux

Ten pieces for solo contrabass: from classical to jazz to new music (Neue Musik)
Duo of Frank Soehnle with the Swedish musician Jesper Ulfenstedt
“très poétiques, et une grande virtuosité des deux interprètes.”
toutelaculture

WUNDERKAMMER (Cabinet of Curiosities) –
meditations on wonderment

A trio of marionette virtuosos: Alice Therese Gottschalk, Raphael Mürle, and Frank Soehnle
“A fantastic reflection on the power of imagination.”
Stuttgarter Nachrichten

Hôtel de Rive –
Giacometti’s horizontal time

Four surrealist texts by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti
In collaboration with Compagnie Bagage de Sable and with live music by the Zurich duo Pedretti & Morgenthaler
“An ingenious Gesamtkunstwerk.” LKZ