Galaxy Hotel [play for music]

Composer: Burkhard Friedrich
(born 1962 in Berlin) studied composition and classical saxophone in Stuttgart, Lübeck and Berlin. He has been a recipient of the Heinrich-Strobel Stipend granted by the Southwest German Radio and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the cultural office Hamburg. His chamber opera Lancelot's Spiegel won the 1st prize at an international Competition for Opera Writing in Austria. The opera was premiered 2003 in Austria. His second opera Imitation of Life, based on films and novels of David Lynch and Bret Easton Ellis was premiered 2005 at the opera in Hamburg. 

composer (electronic): Juergen Hall
Juergen Hall, born 1969, studied physics and musicology in Hamburg and works since 1993 as composer and music producer in the field of electronic pop music, improvisation and theatre music. In his current projects he performs as his Alter Ego Gunther Adler and with the Augburger Tafelconfect. As solo-performer he toured through France, Switzerland, Italy, Benelux, Poland... 2003 he funded the net label for experimental music Plakatif . Furthermore he is DJ, creates sound and noise-installations and performs since 2005 music versions of silent movies (Alice 1915, Alice in Wonderland by W. Young and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt  by Walter Ruttmann).

Directors: Melanie Mohren, Bernhard Herbordt
Bernhard Herbordt (*1978 in Würzburg) and Melanie Mohren (*1979 in Bonn) studied at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Giessen and together, Herbordt/Mohren realises interdisciplinary theatre productions, radio plays, installations and performances. After various radio plays (Diskurse Festival Giessen, Hessische Theatertage, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, ITs Festival Amsterdam)and theatre productions (FFT Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Kampnagel, Sophiensaele, Hebbel am Ufer, PACT Zollverein Essen, Schauspielhaus Stuttgart...), Herbordt/Mohren were nominated for the Yearbook "TheaterHeute" as young artists. 2008/2009 they hold a scholarship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

Set Design: Hannes Hartmann/Leonie Mohr
As a carpenter Hannes Hartmann (*1972, Wien) worked in the furniture construction and architecture before he started his studies in set design at Herbert Kapplmueller at the Mozarteum/Salzburg (Austria) and art history in Vienna. Since his degree in 2001 he is a freelance set designer and worked among others at the state theatre Stuttgart, theatre Bochum or the opera Chemnitz and showed his installation and his video art at art galeries and in exhibitions. In 2009 he will start as set designer at the theatre Stuttgart.
Leonie Mohr (*1075, Bonn) studied also at the Mozarteum in Salzburg set design and after assisting at the Salzburg Festival and the state opera Hamburg she worked as set designer at the state opera of Baden, Karlsruhe. Since 2002, Leonie Mohr works as a freelance set designer among others at the Gorki theatre Berlin, opera Chemnitz and Neues Schauspiel Erfurt.
Together with Herbordt/Mohren, Leonie Mohr and Hannes Hartmann realised the production Irrfelsen at the state theatre Stuttgart (2007) and Wie man ein Loch in den Himmel macht at Sophiensaele Berlin (2008).

Video: Timo Schierhorn
Timo Schierhorn studies since 2002 visual communication and fine arts at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Besides his own documentaries and experimental films and space and video installations, since 2001 Timo Shierhorn works as video artist in theatre productions. With the composer Burkhard Friedrich he realised the production C4H10FO2P Station by Torsten Beyer  for the Eclat Festival Stuttgart and Imitation of Life at the state opera Hamburg. Furthermore, Timo Schierhorn creates videoclips for bands as Tocotronic, Tenfold Loadstar or Go Plus. 

ensemble Intégrales
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