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SUMMARY:Performance: Fairground
DESCRIPTION:At night on the fairground\, longings are awakened. The uraniu
 m miners escape the daily dreariness and backbreaking labour in the funfai
 r and alcoholic excesses. The rollercoaster ride reaches its highest point
  and the world turns upside down: where should you go with yourself in pos
 t-war East Germany? War and fascism have left their mark on the people\, m
 aterial hardship determines their everyday lives\, and an authoritarian re
 gime wants to take them over. But they still have dreams.\nWerner Bräunig
 's protagonists search for a place in the world\, take on responsibility\,
  develop and yet cannot free themselves from themselves. Due to his unvarn
 ished realism\, author Werner Bräunig was targeted by the SED regime. He 
 broke down as a result\, but his big question remains: How do people becom
 e shapers of society and what does that do to them?\nCommissioned by Chemn
 itz Opera\, Ludger Vollmer (composition) and Jenny Erpenbeck (libretto) ar
 e adapting the novel Rummelplatz for the opera stage for the first time. T
 he world premiere will be accompanied by the participatory writing worksho
 p ‘Greif zur Feder\, Chemnitz! - Pisz\, Łódź!’ and the conference “
 Fairground or Reality?”\, which spans the arc from contemporary history 
 to the Capital of Culture year 2025.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>At night on the fairground\, longings are 
 awakened. The uranium miners escape the daily dreariness and backbreaking 
 labour in the funfair and alcoholic excesses. The rollercoaster ride reach
 es its highest point and the world turns upside down: where should you go 
 with yourself in post-war East Germany? War and fascism have left their ma
 rk on the people\, material hardship determines their everyday lives\, and
  an authoritarian regime wants to take them over. But they still have drea
 ms.</p>\n<p>Werner Bräunig's protagonists search for a place in the world
 \, take on responsibility\, develop and yet cannot free themselves from th
 emselves. Due to his unvarnished realism\, author Werner Bräunig was targ
 eted by the SED regime. He broke down as a result\, but his big question r
 emains: How do people become shapers of society and what does that do to t
 hem?</p>\n<p>Commissioned by Chemnitz Opera\, Ludger Vollmer (composition)
  and Jenny Erpenbeck (libretto) are adapting the novel Rummelplatz for the
  opera stage for the first time. The world premiere will be accompanied by
  the participatory writing workshop ‘Greif zur Feder\, Chemnitz! - Pisz\
 , Łódź!’ and the conference “Fairground or Reality?”\, which span
 s the arc from contemporary history to the Capital of Culture year 2025.</
 p>
LOCATION:Chemnitz\, Opernhaus (https://www.theater-chemnitz.de/spielplan/d
 etailseite/rummelplatz _blank)
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