View transcript: Reich Chancellor Pop

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The Metropolis Program

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3 times HEINER MÜLLER

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Reich Chancellor Hitler, father & son, interactive Germania / “Dr. Goebbels has Hitler’s ear” / sports rally of the police force in Berlin / materials and props for a fragment of Heiner Müller’s: Germania Magna 4 - -

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REICH CHANCELLOR POP – musical revue based on a text by Heiner Müller

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Kluge

The famous mustached earthquake

Hitler as limping wolf on three legs /

quadriga

GERMANIA, a giant woman

FATHER + SON, two dogs

HITLER, a midget

Germania at the piano,

wearing a Wagner mask,

dabbles in piano playing,

Hitler on a flying trapeze

as conductor /

father and son

put their hands over their ears /

Germania plays louder /

(the father shows her his butt,

the son his tongue) /

Hitler wants to make Germania, who’s oblivious

(whenever she looks, father and son play

the concert audience

listening, applauding etc. )

take notice of the inappropriate behavior of

father and son /

Since he can’t compete with the piano,

he demonstrates

and shows Germania

flying by and pointing his butt

at the father /

Germania ties father and son together

and guillotines them with the cover plate of the piano /

Hitler applauds

and, at the risk of his life,

blows Germania kisses /

finale on off-tune piano /

Forty bicyclists in yellow jerseys

come on stage, ringing and honking /

Germania chops the piano to pieces,

Hitler turns into an angel,

that circles above the audience, farting /

Hannelore Hoger as GERMANIA

Kluge

Here is a fragment of yours “Quadriga Germania – a giant woman”. It’s actually a very short text.. Strangely it comes right after “A …

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Heiner Müller, playwright

Müller

“The Battle”, yes.

Kluge

“The Battle”, yes. A very important, great text. And I always thought that there’s also a connection.

Müller

Well, it was meant to be an interlude to “The Battle”, but was never done, also because it is basically written as an impossibility … it’s impossible to put this on stage the way it’s written …

Kluge

…I just had to think of Richard Wagner …

Müller

…at the circus, at the circus it would be possible.

Kluge

… at the circus it would be possible, yes, and when you think of “Rhinegold” by Richard Wagner, where you have the Rhine daughters, some elements of stage technology …

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HITLER - Joseph, tell me /

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GOEBBELS – I’ll get it done boss /

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Lend me your ear /

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Music: CAESAR, “Live at Caesar’s Palace” & NO NO YES NO

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Germania ties father and son together

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and guillotines them with the cover plate of the piano /

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Hitler applauds

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and, at the risk of his life,

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blows Germania kisses /

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finale on off-tune piano /

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Forty bicyclists in yellow jerseys

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come on stage, ringing and honking /

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Germania chops the piano to pieces,

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Hitler turns into an angel,

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that circles above the audience, farting /

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Forty bicyclists in yellow overalls & jerseys

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REICH CHANCELLOR POP – musical revue based on a text by Heiner Müller