Fontane-Klanggarten

[They all have their Quirks – Fontane and the Women] (multimedia installation)

Duration and location of exhibition:
- 29.04. - 27.06.2010, various locations in Neuruppin
- Theatersommer Netzeband 2010
- Seefestival Wustrau 2010
- Other venues in the Federal State of Brandenburg to follow

It is notable that the great novels and novellas of Theodor Fontane are almost exclusively concerned with the destinies of women. Women who frequently come to grief because they fail to resist their longings and their love. Women, so it seems, whose grand expectations and almost erotic vulnerability not only stirred Fontane’s interest but called forth his whole-hearted love as well.

The starting point of this project is the brainchild of Netzeband’s theatrical director Frank Matthus – an audiovisual installation in a public space in which the hearing of the text is backed up by a further sensuous element in the form of pictures of women – some realistic portraits, others abstract female forms. Selected locations in the city will be the venue for the audio presentation of a selection of Fontane’s texts from the great novels featuring women, together with an exhibition of women’s pictures.

The exhibition will be shown first of all in Fontane’s City Neuruppin before the start of the Fontane Festival, and will then move on as a travelling exhibition to different locations in the Federal State of Brandenburg.

This event has been sponsored by Kulturland Brandenburg e.V. under the auspices of the theme for the year Mut und Anmut. Frauen in Brandenburg - Preussen [Courage and Charm – Women in Brandenburg and Prussia].

Artistic Director:

Frank Matthus

Photographers:

Dirk Mahler & Carola Martin