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Waiting for the Barbarians | Die totale Therapie | Recycled
Kosmos (Test) | Winterspruch: Vielleicht | Heine Rückwärts
 

"Waiting for the Barbarians" von J. M. Coetzee

Staged for the Salzburger Festspiele, 2005

Direction and composition: Blixa Bargeld
Text treatment: Maria Zinfert
Lighting and stage: Lutz John
Director's assistant: Andrea Jüpner
Sound engineers, Berlin: Marco Paschke und Ingo Krauss
Sound engineer in Salzburg: Lutz Nerger
Technical: Thomas Bautenbacher

Actors:

The Magistrate: Thomas Thieme
Woman: Hadewig Kras

* Speakers: Volker Spengler, Lars Rudolph, Blixa Bargeld, Simon Newby (voices from tape)

 

Die totale Therapie

  Die Totale Therapie
copyright Prisma Film
 
125 min, 35mm, Director: Christian Frosch

a Prisma Film Production
Distributor: Neue Visionen Filmverleih

Blixa Bargeld in the role of the charismatic therapist Dr Romero.

Content:
A tragicomedy psycho thriller. The therapist Dr Romero is murdered during a two week self-awareness course. Panic breaks out and the psychotherapy turns into psychoterror. The constantly accelerating spiral of hysteria results in a deterioration in the conduct of those involved - until catastrophe can no longer be diverted.


Recycled

Blixa Bargeld in his roll as bartender and hobby fisherman
 

a film by Maria von Heland
Music by Blixa Bargeld
Dolby Stereo, 93 Min.
Dom Film GmbH 1999

After Martin Lamm's wife Esther announces that she hired someone to kill him, the famous writer's life changes rapidly. Just hours later Esther is at the bottom of the river and Martin is on the run from a syndicate of killers together with his new love, Kia until just recently a killer herself.

Kia's and Martin's pasts flash before them as the syndicate, Kia's coldblooded ex-boyfriend, and Martin's furious father-in-law chase them through the city. Finally, the lovers decide there is only one way out: To die before they are killed.

But nothing is what it seems to be. Martin isn't a writer (in fact Esther wrote the books), Kia isn't a killer and the real question is: whose story is Esther typing from the depth of the river?

RECYCLED is a game with love, life, death, time and money and in this game there are only winners in the end.

 

Kosmos (Test)

Theater production by Peter Meining and Harriet Maria Böge
Production of Europäische Werkstatt für Kunst and Kultur Hellerau e.V. norton commander produktion


The play Cosmic Test is based on the text "The Little Jehovah" by Pierre Gripari and is about the beginning of the world. The story of creation is told from the perspective of three four dimensional beings (Madam God, Doctor Mind and the Little Jehova). Our human existence reveals itself as the psychological accident of a boy laden with oedipal complexes. It also transpires that we have Dr Mind¡¯s cosmic therapy to thank for our continued existence in a 3 dimensional cosmos somewhere in the "Scot Arctic".

Doctor Mind: Blixa Bargeld
Madam God: Martina Couturier
The Little Jehova: Lars Rudolph

 

Vielleicht - Rundgesang der Pachtherren



A film by Kirsten Glauner and
Erik Sick, 6 Min. black/white Super 16mm 1999.
With Blixa Bargeld und Thomas Schmitt.
A production from Scopitone Film- und Videoproduktion.
Part of the Film "Winterspruch" - a compilation from 9 short films based on the songs of Hans Eisler. "Winterspruch" is the winner of the Hessian film prize 1999.

Brief description of Vielleicht - Rundgesang der Pachtherren:

indifferent calm
bored scraps of thought
sublime concentration water
Blixa Bargeld and Thomas Schmitt
- tenants of the 80s-
silent for 6
minutes long
on the bottle


 

Heine Rückwärts: theater play

The text was written in 1995 as a commission for the Schauspielhaus D¨¹sseldorf and was first performed in March 1996 under the title "From death backwards lovesick". (Thomas Sessler Verlag, Vienna and Düsseldorf)