Storytelling concert Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada
“Kleiner Mann, was nun?”
A narrative and orchestral piece about Johannes Pinneberg – “and what he feels, thinks and experiences”
Izabele Jankauskaite
Conductor
Meike Rötzer
Narrator
Meike Rötzer - Narrator
The actress and publisher Meike Rötzer, born in Bünde in 1971, completed her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. She made her debut at the Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe in 1996 and performed at the Städtische Bühnen Kiel from 2000.
Further freelance productions followed, including at the Berlin theatre Berliner Sophiensæle. Her debut in front of the camera began directly on the big screen in cinema films such as ‘Einer meiner ältesten Freunde’ (1994) and ‘Ab nach Tibet! Meike Rötzer has been recording for radio plays and audio books since 2007, such as ‘Wir müssen die Liebe neu erfinden’ (2023) by Mona Chollet or ‘Eva’ (2023) by Verena Keßler.
For her work on Katja Petrowskaja’s ‘Vielleicht Esther’, she was nominated for the German Audiobook Award for Best Interpreter in 2023. In the podcast ‘NATURerKUNDEN’, which she produced, she has been discussing the topics of nature and animals with changing dialogue partners since 2021.
From 2008 to 2022, she worked as an editor for fiction at the publishing house Matthes & Seitz Berlin.
Rötzer founded Erzählbuchverlag in 2022, through which she publishes audiobooks. The dramas and novels of world literature are condensed and told in contemporary language. She performs with the narrative solos at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, Literaturhaus Frankfurt, among others, and radioeins has been broadcasting the narrative lounge “Richtig gutes Zeug!”, which she co-founded, since 2022.
Photo © Nik Konietzny
“Little Man – What Now?”
What makes a man “little”? In his novel “Little Man – What Now?”, Hans Fallada paints a vivid and realistic portrait of the struggle for dignity and existence, using a life of unemployment and poverty as the backdrop for a deeply moving love story.
The large orchestra accompanies the narrative with music by, among others, Kurt Weill, Lili Boulanger, Franz Schreker and Arnold Schönberg.
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