Bowie In Berlin - A Conversation with a Cultural Icon II
In the summer of 1976, pop star David Bowie moves from Los Angeles to Berlin. Why Berlin? Was he attracted by the mixture of Weimar nostalgia, isolated Wall city and niche location for the new music that would later be called Krautrock? In fact, he created radically new music in Berlin in the following two years, recorded both an anthem and a legendary album with Heroes, made a curious ‘Weimar-era’ film with Just a Gigolo, and then disappeared into the pop-synthetic eighties. Today, the three albums of the so-called Berlin Trilogy are considered the artistic highlight of his career.
With a performative mixture of music, dance and text, BOWIE IN BERLIN – as the second part of the series Conversations with a Cultural Icon – explores the area where pop touches our lives: as music, as film, as art, as an attitude to life.
With Olivia Dean, Maureen Gleason, Daniel Janke, Ben Maddox, Angharad Matthews, Jeffrey Mittleman | Concept and Direction by Günther Grosser | Music by Daniel Janke | Choreography by Eva Günther | Set Design by Tomas Fitzpatrick | Video by Rebecca Shein | Costumes by Heike Braitmayer | Lighting Design by Katri Kuusimäki | Stage Management and Directing Assistance by Rose Nolan | Photography by Stefania Migliorati
Sept27–30|Oct11–14|2023|8pm
Tickets 16 € (10 € Students)
English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center Fidicinstr. 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) Platz der Luftbrücke: U6, Bus 104, 248, Mehringdamm: Bus M19
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Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds
Presented by Siegessäule
*Update: Bowie In Berlin - A Conversation with a Cultural Icon II will return to English Theatre Berlin in June 2025