Der Schimmelreiter

In the organizer's words:

From the very beginning, he was an outsider in his village on the North Sea. Even as a child, Hauke Haien was interested in physical experiments and the art of dyke construction. With the help of his wife Elke, who is his congenial intellectual partner, the adult Hauke works his way up to dyke count, against the resistance of the conservative villagers and above all against that of his bitter and jealous rival Ole Peters. Hauke succeeds in building a new, better dyke, but without tearing down the old one. But bad omens in the superstitious world of the village increase and finally a flood of the century breaks out. When the masses of water threaten to destroy the broken dyke, Hauke prevents the plan to breach his dyke in order to save the dilapidated one. It breaks, the flood wreaks havoc and takes Hauke's little daughter with it, whereupon he throws himself on his white horse into the middle of the raging sea: "Lord God, take me, but spare the others."
Storm's famous novella is linked to the North German region like almost no other literary work. It uniquely combines a harsh portrait of the landscape and customs with eerie, fantastical motifs and urgent, topical questions about the relationship between man and nature. For the stage version, the world-famous jazz pianist and ECHO award-winner Martin Tingvall will write music for Schauspiel Kiel for the second time after "Was ihr wollt - Das Musical".

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