Benedikt Brachtel
Beni Brachtel arbeitet seit 2010 als freischaffender Komponist, Sound Artist und Musikproduzent, er lebt mit seiner Familie in München. Seither komponierte er über 30 Theatermusiken u.a. für die Münchner Kammerspiele, Schauspiel Basel, Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin, das Berliner Ensemble, Schauspiel Köln, Schauspiel Graz. Er arbeitete u.a. mit Ersan Mondtag, Alexander Eisenach, Jessica Glause und Tobias Staab zusammen.
2024 komponierte Brachtel eine Orchestersuite für den Deutschen Pavillon der 60. Kunst Biennale Venedig und spielte sie mit den Münchner Symphonikern ein.
Seit 2018 realisierte Brachtel vier Auftragskompositionen für das Schauspiel Köln (Regie: Ersan Mondtag), zahlreiche Musikproduktionen im eigenen Tonstudio in München, Obersendling, sowie vier Kompositionsaufträge der Bayerischen Staatsoper («Noah», «Moses», «Eva & Adam» und «Catarsi»), davon brachte er drei auch als Dirigent zur Uraufführung.
Als Musiker und DJ hatte Brachtel Auftritte u. a. in Tokyo, Bukarest, St. Petersburg, Moskau, London, Berlin, Paris, Rom, New York, Los Angeles.
Portrait © Manuel Nieberle
Productions
When Goethe set «Götz von Berlichingen» down on paper in 1771 in a true writing frenzy, the 22-year-old writer was still a complete unknown. This came to an abrupt end with the publication of «Götz», as suddenly the young poet was being talked about everywhere. Goethe’s early work is a powerful stage epic with over fifty locations, several plots running in parallel and a huge cast of characters. What is more: Goethe dispensed with all the customary conventions that 18th century drama had been using up to that point.
Götz von Berlichingen
A prince of fashion and a fairy-tale king. A bird of paradise and a cult figure. A Munich original and a philanthropist. During the course of his lifetime, Rudolph Moshammer was given countless of these nicknames and soubriquets. Everyone recognized him as an eccentric with his dog Daisy on his arm, a talk show guest and man of society. Like his role model, Bavaria’s fairy-tale king Ludwig II, he loved glamour, opulence, and excess. In his appearances as an actor and in advertisements, as a singer in the preliminary round for the Eurovision Song Contest and with books like «Mama und ich» (Mama and Me), he became a cult figure and his fashion boutique «Carnaval de Venise» in Maximilianstraße became a cult address and place of pilgrimage for Mosi fans.
MOSI - The Bavarian Dream
The French frigate «Medusa» is shipwrecked two days' voyage from its destination. For author and director Alexander Eisenach, the events that follow symbolise a society in which the values of communal coexistence have lost their validity.
Der Schiffbruch der Fregatte Medusa (The shipwreck of the frigate Medusa)
Austrian playwright Ewald Palmetshofer translates Shakespeare's royal drama «King Henry IV» into the present day of eroding democracies with sophisticated language and defiant humour.
Sankt Falstaff (Saint Falstaff)