SOMBRERO VOM HIMMEL von Richard Brautigan

In the organizer's words:

Reading with music
with Sophie Wendt and Severin Rauch

Sun May 10 / 8 pm

On a bright summer's day, a sombrero falls from the sky in a town in the USA. This is enough to spark a wild riot that spreads furiously and sets off a spiral of violence. Machine guns and artillery fire are used, the president himself arrives and what happens next can easily compete with the present in its lunacy.

Sophie Wendt and Severin Rauch bring Richard Brautigan's fast-paced novel to the stage as a musical reading.

Richard Brautigan, American author (1935-1984), wrote mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. He published novels, poems and short prose. "Trout Fishing in America" (1967), a work between novel, episodes and poetic collage that is difficult to categorize, became particularly well known. Brautigan's style is considered minimalist, surreal and humorous; he combines everyday observations with absurd images, sudden leaps of thought and a melancholy tone. His texts often appear light and playful, but at the same time contain criticism of consumer society, alienation and American myth. This mixture of irony, fantasy and brevity made him a minor icon of the hippie generation and he is considered one of the main representatives of the American West Coast underground of the 1960s and 1970s.

Sophie Wendt was born in Kiel, grew up in Innsbruck and studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. After graduating, she began her career in the theater, including her first engagements in Bamberg and later at the Munich Volkstheater under Ruth Drexel and Christian Stückl. She has been working freelance since 2009 and performs regularly at theaters in Germany and Austria.
In Munich, she has performed at the Schauburg, the Residenztheater and the TamS Theater, among others. She is also active as a speaker, for example for audio books and radio productions, and also passes on her experience as a lecturer and in workshops.
Sophie Wendt has been part of the ensemble at the TAMS Theater for many years and can be seen again and again in very different productions. Under the direction of Lorenz Seib, she has performed in "Vom Schlimmsten das Beste" / "Das Käthchen von Heilbronn hab ich mir anders vorgestellt" / "Wunder in der Hafenbar" / "Das Haus verliert nix", among others. She always moves flexibly between play, commentary and performative presence, often leaving her characters deliberately open and changeable.
In fall 2025, she directed "Rivka" by Judith Herzberg at TAMS for the first time.

Severin Rauch, born in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria, is a versatile drummer, composer and theater musician with close ties to Munich's independent music and theater scene. He studied jazz percussion in Amsterdam, Basel and Graz, developing a stylistically open approach between jazz, indie and experimental music.
Rauch plays in various bands and projects, including Kid Empress, Severin Rauch's Leg Transporter, Severin Rauch Quartett, Katharr, Jisr and various jazz formations. He was also a member of the Bavarian band Monobo Son and worked in numerous changing concert line-ups and studio productions.
In addition to his concert activities, he is also very active in the theater. At the TamS Theater in Munich, he was involved in productions such as "Karl, Karl und Karl" / "Welt voll Rausch" / "Wunder in der Hafenbar" / "Rivka" and other performative projects combining acting and live music. He also frequently takes on drums, live sound design or composition in experimental productions and musical theater formats and often appears not only as a drummer, but also as a performer or actor. He likes to move between concert, theater and experimental performance and is one of the most versatile musicians on the Munich off-scene.

Sun May 10 / 8 pm

Admission 28 € / 18 € / 10 € reduced

Reservation under Tel. 089 34 58 90 or tams@tamstheater.de

Price information:

Admission 28 € / 18 € / 10 € reduced