Barbara Melzl
Geboren 1957 in der Schweiz, erhielt Barbara Melzl ihre Schauspielausbildung an der Schauspielakademie in Zürich. Sie war engagiert am Theater am Neumarkt in Zürich, am Theater in Bremen, in Freiburg und Basel sowie am Schauspielhaus Zürich und am Staatstheater Hannover. 1993 wechselte sie an das Residenztheater, 2000 wurde ihr vom Verein der Freunde des Residenztheaters der Kurt-Meisel-Preis verliehen. Sie arbeitete u. a. mit Andrea Breth, Stéphane Braunschweig, Michael Bogdanov, Dimiter Gotscheff, Matthias Hartmann, Dieter Dorn, Martin Kušej, Tina Lanik, Thom Luz, Antoine Uitdehaag, Herbert Fritsch, Andreas Kriegenburg und Claus Peymann.
Performing in
Ostend – the Atlantic coast, driving snow, New Year’s Eve, in the foyer of a hotel whose best days are behind it. This is where Minetti, an old «theatre artist», ends up lonely – and yet surrounded by a group of «madmen». Or are they like minds? Celebrating, wearing masks, drunk … of whom we do not know where they come from or where they are going to – they all pass across the hotel foyer like creatures from another world… Is this a comedy? Or a tragedy?
Minetti
In his historical miniatures, Stefan Zweig brings together brilliant achievements in European history that tell of unbreakable vitality as well as human weaknesses. In Thom Luz' poetic and musical production, they become archive material that is explored, sung about, brought to life in brief moments and also set in relation to Stefan Zweig's own biography and his journey into exile in Brazil.
Sternstunden der Menschheit (Decisive moments in history)
