Heiner Bomhard, Anna Mateur DIE BETTWURST – THE MUSICAL

Musical

Rosa von Praunheim – renowned director, producer, author and activist of the LGBTQ movement – stages his own cult film from 1971 as a musical.

Anna Mateur and Heiner Bomhard give an entertaining and hilarious interpretation of the film’s role models Luzi and Dietmar, who have something over them: they are allowed to sing, dance and make wonderful nonsense. They and their four co-stars are allowed to do their rounds on the revolving stage of BAR JEDER VERNUNFT to entertaining songs and fluffy arrangements based on Bomhard’s music until the whole theatre goes wild. Rosa von Praunheim is the first director in Germany to stage the love story between Luzi (Anna Mateur), a woman of Polish origin from Kiel, and Dietmar (Heiner Bomhard), a man from Mannheim, in the camp style already created in America. The FAZ wrote after the television broadcast “Independent cinema also has its masters. The greatest in Germany is Rosa von Praunheim.” The unusual style of the two heroines caused a sensation and, together with the simultaneously released film “Not the homosexual is perverted, but the situation in which he lives”, earned Rosa von Praunheim the unbroken status of a cult and underground star of German film to this day.

Luzi: Anna Mateur
Dietmar: Heiner Bomhard

Chorus: Robert Lankester, Fausto Israel, Nell Pietrzyk, Rafael Albert Written & directed by Rosa von Praunheim
Music: Heiner Bomhard
Set & costumes: Ingrid Buhrmann, Lara Scheuermann, Oliver Sechting, Marcus Lachmann, Moritz Piefke
Assistant director & production assistant: Eric Schmidt-Mohan

Piano: Ferdinand von Seebach, Nikolai Orloff
Clarinet: Karola Elßner, Frank Lüdeke, James Scannell
Bass: Ralph Grässler, Andreas Henze