Clemens K. Thomas, Miriam Götz: BÄ!

Musiktheater für Kinder

(2023)

Martin has moved to a new city with his father. He doesn’t feel at home here yet and he’s certainly not keen on all the changes and new things. His teddy bear Bä is quite different. Martin’s favorite fluffy cuddly toy is not just any teddy bear, but really alive and the best play partner with the craziest ideas. And so Bä begins to invent and build a sound-time machine out of the chaos of the moving boxes. The machine actually works, and Martin and Bä embark on the wildest fantasy worlds. They encounter a clock hand that is out of time, end up in a hot desert where Bä falls in love with a cactus, Martin has to rescue Bä from a dangerous situation and finally they meet a cyborg who is up to no good with Martin.

The music is as colorful as the fantasy worlds. Whether Bä accompanies himself on the ukulele in a love song, the cyborg world consists of digital birdsong or rhythmic language games help the clock hand back into time: Martin and Bä travel singing through tongue-in-cheek, imaginative worlds of sound.

A musical theater piece about the relationship between children and their cuddly toys, about friendship, trusting and helping each other and the boundless imagination of playing.

Clemens K. Thomas and Miriam Götz

Clemens K. Thomas
© Johannes Hirsch

As a composer and curator, Clemens K. Thomas (*1991 in Karlsruhe) tells stories and deals with pressing issues of our time. Recurring motifs in his works are the processing of our everyday media life, the nostalgic transfiguration of the past and the physicality of a man-machine. Linked to this, the world of play, playfulness, toys and instrumental playing also run like a common thread through his work, for example in his preoccupation with dolls or music automatons. As a harpsichordist and opera fan, Clemens has an emotional relationship with the European musical tradition, which he clashes with pop culture and internet phenomena in a contemporary form.

Clemens’ portfolio includes vocal, instrumental and music-theatrical pieces as well as site-specific compositions and installations. His works have been performed by musicians such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Recherche, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart and Ensemble Proton Bern at the Philharmonie de Paris, Staatstheater Braunschweig, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, ECLAT and Frau Musica Nova, among others. His music has been broadcast on ARTE Concert, Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, SWR 2, SR 2 and RTS Espace 2 (Switzerland).

Clemens K. Thomas studied composition in Freiburg with Johannes Schöllhorn and Cornelius Schwehr. As a current scholarship holder of the Claussen Simon Foundation, he is writing an opera for the Hamburg State Opera, combined with an artistic-scientific dissertation on cuteness as an aesthetic category.

From 2019 to 2022 he was Artistic Manager of Ensemble Recherche Freiburg. As a freelance curator, Clemens K. Thomas works with Ensemble Resonanz and the Göttingen Symphony Orchestra, among others. Together with Friederike Scheunchen and Lucia Kilger, he directs Ensemble Scope.

Miriam Götz is a director for music theater and drama with a focus on contemporary music theater and projects for young audiences, which she often develops in collaborative processes. She has worked with the composer Clemens K. Thomas and with Ensemble Recherche for the staged family concert »A Song of Salt and Water«.

In 2023, she directed the world premiere of Sara Glojnarić’s opera »Neuro-Moon. Manage your memories.« (Text: Emma Braslavsky). In addition to the main stage , the chamber stage was also included with an interactive installation. At the Neuköllner Oper Berlin, she staged the world premiere of Andys Skordis & Jelena Vucsanovic’s chamber opera »A light blue day«, which won first prize in the Berlin Opera Prize. Miriam Götz studied Cultural Studies & Aesthetic Practice in Hildesheim and Musicology in Aix-en-Provence. She worked as an assistant director at the Neuköllner Oper Berlin, at the ECLAT Festival Neue Musik and for several years at the Theater Freiburg. She has worked with Matthias Rebstock, Florentine Klepper, Barbara Mundel, Calixto Bieito, Joan Antón Rechi and Ingo Kerkhof, among others.

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