The production of contemporary music theatre will be developed cooperatively and collaboratively by a diverse production team (pupils, music/education students from the University of Oldenburg, vocal students from the University of the Arts Bremen, professional musicians from the klangpol network) in a production-oriented manner, brought to the stage, communicated and later presented in Rheinsberg and discursively negotiated as part of the conference. As with the previous project, a comprehensive collaboration between different target groups and professional levels is ventured.

Current music theatre works will be realised - which is quite rare within the klangpol network - with a focus on networking within the network and beyond, as well as with a focus on the development of a contemporary music theatre, dealing with a central theatrical material (Woyzeck/Büchner) and its musical examination in the form of a central atonal opera (Wozzeck/Berg), which took place during the period of classical modernism.Score-fixed, re-composed and re-arranged music meets improvised music and electronica, thematically linked in the music-theatrical setting and the political framing of "Stimme.Macht.Spiele" (conference theme in Rheinsberg).

In order to meet the complexity of the reworking of the musical templates(Wozzeck by Alban Berg, as well as other selected, thematically appropriate compositions and models of vocal work of more recent date), a (re-)composition commission will go to the composer-performer Krystoffer Dreps as part of the project, which will create the musical basis for this full-length evening of music theatre.

As a trained trumpeter (jazz) and composer (new music), Krystoffer Dreps is at home in many styles in the sense of a composer-performer and is always on the lookout for new connections and intermediate stages on which his INTER_concept is artistically based. Electronic instruments are just as much a part of his repertoire as the repeated renegotiation of composition and improvisation in his music. Recent co-operations have taken him to France and Brazil, to the electronica scene and to liaisons with the visual arts. Further information, audio samples, materials: www.krystoffer.com

In the project itself, the composer-performer will also participate with electronica and possibly trumpet, enriching atmospheric and alienating sounds and creating an even more flexible dialogue with the students (12th grade IGS Flötenteich). The idea of a favourite patchwork of sounds will also be pursued, in line with the dramaturgy of the re-composition as a central aesthetic premise (selection of material, moments, sounds, etc.). Also relevant here is the integration of the sampling approach from electronic music into the (re-)composition of Wozzeck/Alban Berg, the transfer to the world of acoustic instruments or the instrumental Pierrot line-up (plus percussion and electronica).

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner (focus 12th grade IGS Flötenteich) is intertwined with Wozzeck by Alban Berg (focus of the work with the professional instrumentalists as well as with the vocal students at the HfK Bremen) and re-arranged, re-composed, assembled, patched together by means of a re-composition by Krystoffer Dreps (cf. "Flickoper")
The students at the IGS Flötenteich will be working with Woyzeck from the beginning of the 23/24 school year (Abitur topic in the central Abitur in 2024). After the school autumn holidays, the students at the Institute of Music at the University of Oldenburg will join them more frequently with their lecturer Volker Schindel, supported by the freelance actor, speaker and physical theatre expert René Schack (Uni OL & HfK Bremen), who will give two workshops for the pupils and students.
The pupils will develop central motifs, scenes, scenic approaches, etc. with their DS teacher Arne Kreye (IGS Flötenteich), which will be further developed in dialogue with the students of the University of Oldenburg and their director Volker Schindel and fed into the work of the artistic team and the re-composition by Krystoffer Dreps.

In dialogue with the other management team, the different approaches, ideas and impulses are compared in regular dramaturgy meetings and a joint dramaturgical framework is developed and collaboratively concretised. The musical reworkings and re-compositions by Krystoffer Dreps, under the guidance of Felix Schauren, will be developed and rehearsed with the professional musicians in specific preliminary rehearsals and gradually condensed.
At the same time, selected parts will be worked on by the advanced vocal students at the University of the Arts Bremen under the direction of Prof. Maria Kowollik and supplemented with more current vocal pieces and vocal models of contemporary music practice.

For the university students, an ambitious music theatre project will be experienced and shaped in a professional setting from start to finish: In accompanying/guiding the school class, in thematic approaches with the help of the scenic interpretation of music and theatre of Oldenburg provenance (specifically with the play concept "Wozzeck" by Wolfgang Martin Stroh), in collaboration in dramaturgy, musical work, direction, stage design, costumes (in co-operation and using the infrastructure of the Oldenburg State Theatre). Students will also experience the work of the artistic singing students with their professor Maria Kowollik and familiarise themselves with the (further) development of directing, role work, etc.

The final rehearsal phase, in which the different project components and levels are brought together, is followed by the premiere and second performance in Oldenburg, a further performance in Bremen and finally the guest performance at the Rheinsberg Castle Theatre with a reflective and discursive reappraisal of the development and the resulting production in the thematic framework of the ASSITEJ conference "Voice - Power - Playing".

A production of the Association for Music Theatre Productions at the subject of Music at the University of Oldenburg in co-operation with the Oldenburg State Theatre within the framework of klangpol, the HfK Bremen, the IGS Flötenteich (Oldenburg) and the AG Musiktheater der ASSITEJ Deutschland with the BAJMT (Bundesakademie für Junges Musiktheater) Rheinsberg.
The project is supported (in addition to the partly non-cash funds of the institutions mentioned) by "klangpol - Netzwerk Neue Musik Nordwest" (incl. re-composition commission to Krystoffer Dreps), the Barthel Foundation, the Universitäts-Gesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO) and the Institute of Music of the University of Oldenburg.