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Klaus Zehelein: “We need a proving ground where, for a short time, we
can free ourselves from the constraints and established structures of
production.” Stuttgarter Zeitung, October 2003 “I’m telling you: this is a very special place.” Mark Coniglio, New Yorker Composer, Programmer and Media Artist. Recognized worldwide as a Pioneer of Multi Media Performance Art, June 2006 “Were the Forum Neues Musiktheater not to exist already, it would have to be invented.” Stuttgarter Zeitung, June 2006 With the end of Klaus Zehelein’s directorship a concept worthy of preservation loses its theater and partner—hopefully finding a home elsewhere. If a new framework for this model of experimental work on music theater or for those that are making it happen cannot be found, the shortcomings of the German theater scene, which so readily prides itself—and with good reason—on its artistic wealth, would indeed be revealed. Die Deutsche Bühne, June 2006 One of the great achievements of the “Zehelein Era” was the foundation of the Forum Neues Musiktheater. Although the Forum belongs to the Staatsoper Stuttgart, it has an absolute free status, unaffected by the latter’s opera activities. A separate theater was created for the Forum: a convertible space in a long modern building located on the former site of the Römerkastell. The composer Salvatore Sciarrino, one of the most important innovators of contemporary musical theater, went into raptures when he saw the Forum complex: “Where else in the world are there places like this today? It is a utopia of theater that I have discovered here for the first time.” Indeed, the Forum Neues Musiktheater does not just present new works, the period of preparation, the exchange of ideas between composers, dramatists, musicians, conductors, and even the audience is just as much part of the presentation. The Forum is like a laboratory in which as many series of experiments as necessary are established and worked until a work seems ready for performance. Neue Musik Zeitung, May 2006 The creation of the forum for musical theater to supplement the work of the Staatsoper is one of Klaus Zehelein’s progressive measures, whose effect on the further development of music and musical theater cannot be overestimated. Neue Musik Zeitung, May 2006 The FNM may be pursuing its research in the remote Römerkastell in Cannstatt, but it has long since become an international address. Schwäbisches Tagblatt, June 2005 Now the choreograph, who founded the private ensemble The Forsythe Company when the Frankfurt Ballet closed this year, has moved into a new dimension—in collaboration with the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Staatsoper Stuttgart. (…) “It is exactly what I have been looking for,” says Forsythe, who is visibly fascinated by the possibilities of M.-P.-Tools from Stuttgart. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, June 2005 “Every well-run business has a laboratory in which it plans and secures its future. We here in Stuttgart have a very successful opera. It represents many years of work, and such work will have to be continued in the future as well. Securing the future is the core task of the Landesstiftung.” Eiselstein called attention to the larger context: “Art cannot be ignored when securing the future of our state. Education and the involvement of citizens only function with art.” Another plus for the Forum is that it searches far and wide for contacts and networks for its experimentation, taking advantage of new media. Prof. Claus Eiselstein, secretary of the Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, as quoted in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten, April 2005 “It would be a true loss if this laboratory were not permitted to continue its work.” SWR, June 2006 » FNM Press Reviews » FNM Foto Galleries |
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