Zur Rettung der Blasmusik
To the Rescue of Brass Music
A production by Bum Bum Pieces (AT) & vanderbolten.production (CH)
In co-production with Theater am Werk, Zirkusquartier Zurich, Tojo Theater Bern, Theater im Burgbachkeller Zug and ThiK Baden
World premiere
Directed by Simon Windisch
Vienna premiere on 6 December 2025
Premiere
6 December 2025
Language
German
Location
Petersplatz
Contents
Threatened, slandered, disparaged and forgotten from all sides: good old brass band music. Where can you still hear the playful horn, where can you still hear the lovely tuba? Where can you still hear the brave trombones blaring? Three performers with relevant brass band experience set out to save music. They haven't thought about exactly how they will do this, but now that they are here, they want to save something, whether familiar or foreign, whether high culture or folk culture. With alternating bass for mutual understanding, or something like that.
A piece for all those who have escaped the countryside and its confines, who are now freeing themselves from staid traditions in the city, and at the same time for those for whom this part of community and traditional cultural life is important. A humorous take on an Alpine passion: club life.
Bum Bum Pieces (AT) is a theatre collective founded in 2019 by Simon Windisch and Nora Winkler. It stands for atmospheric, musical theatre evenings and a choice of themes that seeks intersections between generations, milieus and traditions, while repeatedly celebrating the beauty of the small and everyday. The productions are made for the metaphorical backyard, and gladly so, because it is there that people who would not otherwise meet can come together.
Credits
Direction
Simon Windisch
Music & Performance
Max Gnant
Christian Spitzenstätter
Nora Winkler
Composition
Robert Lepenik
Stage Design
Rosa Wallbrecher
Mast Composition / Construction & Rigging
Nik Huber
Lighting
Sérafin La Roche
Production
Dalia Keller
Christopher Kriese
Bernhard Werschnak
Nora Winkler
& Robert Lepenik
Assistant Director
Carmen Schabler
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