B-Ebene – Underground Stories. Porträt einer Stadt (Hannes Seidl)

The B-level of the Hauptwache Frankfurt is a magnificent stage. Framed by green-tiled pillars and walls, illuminated by yellowish light, this place seems like a concentrate of the city's polyphony. Here, every walk seems like a performance, every (self-)conversation like a small scene, and waiting people, vendors offering fruit and drinks or loitering young people become living tableaux.

From observations and recordings of this place, from interviews with people who spend every day there, eight musicians from the ensemble MAM:manufaktur für aktuelle musik, together with pupils from IGS Süd and the composer and music theater maker Hannes Seidl, have developed a piece for the Mousonturm hall that celebrates polyphony. In a theatrical landscape created by scenographer Natalia Orendain, a portrait of a city emerges from a variety of perspectives: how it could be, how it perhaps once was, how it sees itself. Enveloped in the background noise of footsteps, ventilation and subway trains, smaller and larger groups emerge as if by chance, making music together, playing ball, simply hanging out or telling stories. Occasional moments of the improbable and fantastic flash into the seemingly natural interplay to become part of the polyphonic polyphony.

Duration: 75 min.
Language: German
10.02. Discussion afterwards