Marianne Blum

In the artist's words:

"Marianne Blum and her fellow musicians open the doors to the imagination! Intensity, technical perfection and artistic expression merge on stage to create an incomparable total work of art. If I were to choose the image of an ancient galley for this, my colleague Ms. Blum would be the figurehead, the wind and the helmsman at the same time - where the audience lets her glide on waves..." (Max Roth)

In other words: experiencing Marianne Blum on stage is unforgettable. Not only because she has a stunning stage presence, but also because she has many different qualities:

Acting-wise, she impresses with her unconditional devotion to the characters she embodies, be it as 90-year-old Leni Riefenstahl in Thea Dorn's play "Marleni" or as 13-year-old Anne Frank in the stage program "Anne's Struggle - Anne Frank vs. Adolf Hitler".

She is a singer who not only has an excellent vocal technique, but also covers an enormous range with her warm, powerful 2.5-octave mezzo-soprano voice. Pop, jazz, blues, evergreens, musical hits, chanson, pop songs, arias and art songs - there is hardly anything she cannot sing. She demonstrates this impressively in all the productions in which she can be seen, as they all always contain a musical element. She also writes her own songs. These can be heard, for example, in the long-running musical cabaret hit "Die Waffeln der Frau". She also wrote the script.

In any case, all the stage plays in which she can currently be seen were written by her. Since 2005, she has written and staged over 20 programs, in addition to her own monthly dinner show "Gernsehen und Abendessen", which ran successfully for seven years. In this series of shows, prominent guests and as yet unknown but promising newcomers were challenged by her wealth of ideas and inspired to top performances. For Marianne Blum, humor is the attitude that enables people to laugh at themselves.

Marianne Blum's motto is to see reality as it is: as a really good joke.

It is her lovingly curious and at the same time satirically accurate view that inspires Marianne Blum to create the stories from which she makes her stage plays. We are all human and therefore not only flawed, but perhaps flawed in the first place, but at least we are not alone. So let us be gracious with ourselves, but not ignorant of the consequences of our inconsistency.

In her plays, she translates this into hilarious dialogues that are reminiscent of Billy Wilder in their pace and comedy, but are also inspired by Loriot's sense of muddled relationships and English humor. Her plays find their very own tone. They show what could happen to us all, but always reveal the political explosiveness of everyday absurdities.

This can be experienced, for example, in the fast-paced musical theater piece "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter - Die 20er Jahre sind jetzt!" but also in their latest production "Zu guter Jetzt - Umzug ins Paradies" or as one could also say: 'Wer zuletzt lacht, hat was zu vererben'.