Richter’s Fairytale / Urban Theater
Theaterperformance
Language: German, Russian (with surtitles in the same languages)
This is a music-filled play about the famous German-Russian-Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter and the freedom he achieved through music.
RICHTER’S FAIRYTALE offers insight into the life of Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), one of the greatest Soviet pianists in music history. The life of this German-Russian piano virtuoso
was marked by an escape from the reality of the Stalinist regime into the boundless and unrestricted world of music.
"Politics holds no interest for me," Richter used to say. However, his fate was intertwined with it: Richter's father was executed due to false accusations, his mother fled with the retreating German troops to Germany, and Richter himself, narrowly avoiding arrest, played at Stalin's funeral.
Cast: Ilya Khodyrev, Oleksandr Kryvosheiev
Direction: Kostya Novitskiy
Visual Effects Design: Valeriia Nikolicheva
Figures: Roman Boklanov
Duration: 90 Min.
Age restriction 16+
Support: Wheels e.V. und Verarius GmbH
Urban Theater is a contemporary Eastern European theater that originated in Berlin in 2023. It acquired its name much earlier, in 2017, as an international project of the St. Petersburg Urban Theater; but with the relocation of a part of the theater, it began permanent activities in Berlin and gained independent status as a non-state theater.