Eva Mattes - Mein persönlichstes Programm
Eva Mattes tells, reads, sings
Accompanied on the piano by Irmgard Schleier
Eva Mattes delights with her exciting journey through 40 years of German theater and film history.
At 13, she is the German voice of Timmy in the TV series Lassie, shortly after that the dubbing voice of Pippi Longstocking. At 15, she is seen for the first time on the big screen in Michael Verhoeven's anti-war film o.k. At 16, her role in Fassbinder's Wildwechsel causes the first German television scandal.
In 1972, she causes a sensation with critics and audiences in the leading role of Beppi in the premiere of Kroetz's Stallerhof at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus,
In 1976, she is at the center of one of the greatest artistic upheavals in German-speaking theater as Desdemona in Peter Zadek's Othello. Today, as Constance police inspector Klara Blum, she uncovers spectacular cases in the tri-border region on the Lake Constance crime scene. In recent years, the multiple award-winning "heart's lady of German theater and film" has also made a name for herself with her recitals and song evenings, especially in collaboration with the musician Irmgard Schleier.
In her new program, Eva Mattes, the "quiet queen among German narrators" (FAZ), tells and reads exciting chapters from her life, about encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Peter Zadek, Ulrich Wildgruber, and other giants of film and theater, about artistic and other events that moved artists and the public together.
With her she brings some of the most beautiful songs and chansons by Marlene Dietrich, Hans Albers, Friedrich Hollaender, Kurt Weill, interspersed with Italian folk songs - entertaining and thoughtful nuances on this evening, which also reports on long-standing cultural-political engagement that connects Eva Mattes closely with the conductor and director Irmgard Schleier, who accompanies her musically on the piano on this unusual musical journey.
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