Comments - Friends
The production
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Comment by Katja Rohloff, organizer of the city of LeonbergListenelement 1Anyone who didn't know that theater is magic should definitely see you both on stage! So much poetry and so much depth in a small, fine production like "Friends" is (unfortunately) far too rare. Our young and old audience members were really excited today and I'm happy to pass on the adults' praise to you: "That was something really special!" I'm looking forward to the next time.
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The power of imaginationListenelement 2
pohyb's und konsorten spielten Helme Heines “Freunde“ – Gutgelauntes Finale der “Mosbacher Buchwochen“.
Mosbach Die hohe Kunst, mit nur zwei “Spielmachern“ drei Protagonisten ins überturbulente Leben zu entsenden, sie beherrschen „pohyb’s und konsorten“ so einfallsreich wie virtuos. Bei Helme Heiners Kinderbuchklassiker “Freunde“ setzten die beiden routinierten Multitasking-Schauspieler Maike Jansen und Stefan Ferencz zudem auf die Kraft der Imagination. Zum wunderbaren Finale der “Mosbacher Buchwochen“ lud “Kindler’s Buchhandlung“ am Freitagnachmittag ins Sängerheim ein.
Mit allerlei “Ah! Oh! Prrrt!“ eroberten zwei seltsame Wesen in karierten Knickerbocker-Latzhosen-Kombinationen den Raum vor der schlichten Bühne. Noch während sie das Publikum in die richtige Sitzordnung fügten, offenbarten sich die beiden als ebenso schnell eingeschnappte wie wieder übermütigst herumalbernde Freunde. Ein rotes Tuch reichte Maike Jansen, um sich in einen Magier zu verwandeln, der seinen Mitspieler unschwer verschwinden lässt. Ein paar Takte Bandoneon oder ein Glockenspiel reichten für den “Soundtrack“. Denn die größte Gabe, die menschliche Vorstellungskraft, wussten die Spieler mit Gesten, Pantomime, Körpersprache, Andeutungen und einer leicht verständlichen Fantasiesprache anzufeuern.
Eine Triangel wurde zum Klang der morgendlichen Kirchenglocken, mit denen das Stück seinen Ausgangspunkt nahm. “Jeden Morgen weckt Franz von Hahn den Bauernhof. Jonny Mauser und der dicke Waldemar helfen ihm dabei.“ Diesen recht lapidaren Worten des Erzählers folgte ein Kammerspiel des Slapsticks. Kleine Accessoires wie ein Strohhut mit Schweinsohren oder ein über die Nase gesteckter Hahnenschnabel reichten völlig aus, um die “Freunde“ anzudeuten. Mit viel “Schaba! Schaba! Buh!“ mühte sich derweil Jonny mit einem übergroßen Hammer ab. Während Waldemars Speckschwarte schon aus purer Vorfreude auf den Weckstreich vor Lachen zu Bersten drohte.
Als Minifiguren radelten die Freunde später über die Bühne. In einen wagemutigen Motocrossfahrer verwandelte sich der mitunter leicht arrogant wirkende Hahn. Derweil Waldemar eher für die handfesten Dinge im Leben zu begeistern war. Mit Hahn, Schwein und Maus kenterte zwar auch das Piratenboot des Trios. Doch allein die pfeifenden Kanonenkugeln, die über den Dorfteich bollerten oder das abgedrehte Unterwasser-Abtauch-Und Schier-Ertrink-Ballett war ganz großes Kino. Auch zu welch ausdrucksstarken Grimassen ein imaginäres Kirschkernweitspucken führen konnte, begeisterte die Zuschauer. Auch ohne Effektgeheische gelang es “pohyb’s und konsorten“, das Publikum in Bann zu ziehen und es im Saal mitunter mucksmäuschenstill werden zu lassen. So still wie am Abend, als plötzlich ein Sternenhimmel über dem Bauernhof prangte und ein Schattenspiel im Spiel die Fantasiereise beendete.
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Visitor comment on friendsListenelement 3My children and I have now been able to experience pohyb's and co. in Landshut for the second time. We have also been to the SAMS play in the city theater. Here is my report: although the visit to the city theater with its perfect stage and technology and all that was less than a week ago, the children have not spoken about it once(!) since the visit! Your theater with the 3 friends was a few weeks ago now and only yesterday they thought of something from you again (“schubba-schubba...”) and we had so much fun with it together! Thank you for leaving so much room for imagination with your minimalism! We think you are great!! Merry Christmas! The Baier family, Landshut
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Crackling tension in the theatre airListenelement 4SLAPSTICK CHAMBER PLAY IN MAYEN. They call themselves “pohyb's and Co.”, Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz. Both have been touring Germany and abroad since 2004 with productions for children and adults, using simple, reduced means to create fun and entertaining theatre. Their pantomime, mask play, slapstick, clowning and improvisation delighted the visitors from kindergartens, as did the rapid character changes, situational comedy, words, voices, sounds, but also the whole atmosphere and background music. This event, to which the Reuffel bookshop had invited its young customers to the large meeting room of the Mayen town hall, was simply top class. Mayen's mayor, Wolfgang Treis, who welcomed the young visitors in his capacity as host, saw this event as a great contribution to the cultural life of the Eifel town. Afterwards, there was a crackling tension in the theatre air. Until, yes, until two strange beings in checked knickerbockers and dungarees with all kinds of “ah-oh-prrrt” took over the space in front of the simple stage. The two revealed themselves to be friends who were as quick to get annoyed as they were high-spirited and foolish. And when the morning church bells rang, the scene quickly changed to the atmosphere of a farm that was “woken up” by “Franz von Hahn”, so to speak. Jonny Mauser and Fat Waldemar helped him. Simply delicious, the young guests were delighted. One burst of laughter followed another. Then, a chamber play of slapstick, so to speak. Small accessories such as a straw hat with pig's ears, or a rooster's beak pulled over the nose were more than enough to indicate the “friends” in this show based on Helme Heine's classic children's book “Real Friends Dream of Each Other”. Meanwhile, Jonny struggled with an oversized hammer with lots of “Schaba-Schaba-Booh”. The excitement was there until the happy ending. The kindergarten teachers who had come along had great praise. “That was exactly the right thing for our children to let their imagination run wild.
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Almost without wordsIDSTEIN. pohybs and his friends delight the Idstein audience. Tense faces among children and adults; the hall in the Bischof-Dirichsheim-Heim is full of people, big and small, holding their breath: What is happening on the stage? Is it possible to bring Helme Heine's three friends to life almost without words, just with a few noises, with perfectly coordinated pantomime, gestures and facial expressions that accurately portray the situations and characters down to the last detail? If you don't believe this, or at least want to see for yourself, we warmly recommend the theater troupe Pohybs and his friends, behind which Maike Jansen and Stefan Ferencz are hiding. The Catholic public library and the witches' bookshop had invited them to Idstein. There is a liberating laughter when the tiny mouse's huge hammer finally lands on the gong. The entire farm cackles, moos, barks, in short, is awakened. The proud Franz von Hahn's fun is spoiled and the show is stolen. But the crowing continues. A wild bike ride over hill and dale follows, no mountain too steep, no valley too deep, to the village pond. Brilliantly portrayed by the bike bar and a puffing Maike Jansen, who is shown the altitude difference and even sweats with her. Now it's time to play hide and seek and the children eagerly help the mouse to search for the missing pig. It's hard to believe how well it is camouflaged by a flower. Jonny Mauser doesn't find his friends, but he does discover an old boat and all three of them find themselves on a clownish pirate voyage until the boat capsizes. They almost all run out of breath underwater - luckily fat Waldemar is able to save the rooster dripping with water. Such adventures make you really hungry, but the cherries are really hanging a little too high. After all three have cycled home in the evening, they swear eternal friendship. At the end, right at the end, the stars sparkle above the night sky of Mullewapp and the three friends dream of each other, because real friends do everything together. “Ju-ungs, Ju-ungs,” you can still hear them calling and the audience applauds enthusiastically... Hopefully Idstein will be able to see a lot more poetic children's theater from this lively troupe. By the way, “pohyb” is Slovakian and means movement. And the two actors certainly moved enough.
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From two to threeDuo "pohyb`s and consorts" enchant young visitors in the Burglichtspiele Gusatvsburg. The enchantment lasts. When you return from the darkness of the Burglichtspiele hall into the light after the delightful acquaintance of the gentlemen "Franz von Hahn" and "Jonny Mauser" and the fat piglet "Waldemar", you no longer have any desire for this reality, this gray, standardized, desperately self-important world, where fun and pleasure threaten to become unaffordable. First-class actors On the sidewalk, on the way to the bus, the imagination plays tricks. You imagine that this relentless reality could use some of the enchanting pantomime and fantasy-tickling onomatopoeia that the poetic children's theater "pohyb`s and consorts" has gifted its guests with. Two - namely the first-class actors Stefan Ferencz and Maike Jansen - play three. And enchant. Total silence The children are as quiet as a mouse, only to burst out laughing after a successful pantomime or word gag from the adventure world of "Friends" in Helme Heine's book of the same name. Lest we forget: The philosophy of the charming 45-minute play for children aged four and up is of course "Real friends help each other". Or: "They even dream of each other at night." And it lands where it should: in children's most receptive understanding. Attempts to record funny onomatopoeias are deciphered on the steno pad. This becomes "schoppo" or "zuckoah", followed by "chabhpfpfneknakna" or "schooha", as well as "tntntn" or "tftftf" and finally "boahboahboah". Ah prospos: The way Maike celebrates the "cock-a-doodle-doo", imitating the rooster in his weighty, excited pride on the farm's dung heap, that's classy. Laughter and beaming Stefan is in no way inferior to this class. Rarely do you see such sophisticated, witty and effortless body language, which finds its most beautiful echo in the laughter and beaming of the children's faces. Stage sets are reminiscent of the handling of transparent paper from childhood. When illuminated, the "friends" behind them occasionally appear as silhouettes. Mainspitze; Claus Langkammer