HOTEL EINHEIT
Hotels in the GDR were one of the few places where people from East and West could meet. The restaurants, night bars and rooms offered guests an unaccustomed level of luxury. Stasi surveillance was commonplace in the hotels. Employees from hotels in Eisenhüttenstadt and Frankfurt (Oder) told their memories of the hotel business for the documentary play. The performance takes place in several railway carriages furnished with original GDR furniture and objects.
concept & director Jens Erwin Siemssen performers Waltraut Auer, Manuel Jadue,Richard Gonlag, Kristina Günther, Sven Reese, Margarita Wiesner musical direction Manuel Jadue costume design Miriam Ebbing light design Birgit Wieger production Ida Bocian, Hannah Wörpel directing assistants Anne-Sophie Herzberg technicians Cordt Forster, Gustavo Smaniotto Tres, Pablo Damian Ruiz Alcantu communication Juliane Lenssen office Sylvana Ratje, Andrea Holer, Angela von Kamp local participants Members of the theater group "TheEi" e.V. (Michaela Luck, Ulf Richter, Stephanie Soldan, Heike Steinhagen, Jasmin Thelke, Nicole Thelke), singers of the folk choir and dancers of CarMa e.V. supported by Landesverwaltungsamt Sachsen-Anhalt, Norddeutsche Landesbank, Lotto Sachsen-Anhalt, Landeshauptstadt Magdeburg, Hansestadt Salzwedel, Karin-Witte Stiftung, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Ministerium für Wissenschaft Forschung und Kultur Brandenburg, Kleist Forum, Kulturbüro Frankfurt (Oder), Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Stiftung Braunschweiger Kulturbesitz, Landkreis Cuxhaven, Landschaftsverband Stade, Gemeinde Schiffdorf, Landkreis Osterholz