MEMENTO (Lots Weib)
A „Stationentheater“ for mixed ensemble by Manos Tsangaris.
Premiere: 14 June 2007
semper kleine szene
further performances: June 16th | 17th | 22nd | 23rd and 24th, 2007
Conductor: Gelsomino Rocco
Director: Manos Tsangaris
Stage design: Martin Kammann
Costume design: Mareile Krettek
Dramaturgy: Hans-Georg Wegner
Director assistance: Carla Spiewok
Assistance: Michael Lüdicke
We were fortunate to have the composer from Cologne, Manos Tsangaris, for this production. Manos Tsangaris studied composition with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel. His works have been performed at famous music festivals such as the Wittener Tage for new chamber music, the Berlin Music Biennale and the Musiktage in Donaueschingen as well as in theatre and opera houses in Cologne, Munich and Bielefeld. The musical universe created by Tsangaris makes those who hear and see his works more curious, more sensitive and more imaginative. Manos Tsangaris has composed a new «Stationentheater» for the kleine szene. In the former domain and in the spirit of Karoline Sofie Marie W. (also known as Mary Wigman), Manos Tsangaris embarks on the quest for the biblical myth of power, flight, memory and seduction.
Vita Manos Tsangaris 
Vita Manos Tsangaris
Manos Tsangaris (*1956 in Düsseldorf) is a German composer, musician, installation and perfomance artist and lyricist.
Tsangaris was a student at the Academy of Music in Cologne from 1976 to 1983, studying composition and new musical theatre with Mauricio Kagel and percussion with Christoph Caskel, as well as with Alfonso Hüppi at the Arts Academy in Düsseldorf. Since 1980 he has often participated in the vacation courses for new music in Darmstadt and worked for the Münchener Kammerspiele. In 1991 he took up the position of composer in residence in Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet composer’s association. In the same year, he was awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann grant by the city of Cologne, followed by a fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude from 1992/93 and the art prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1997. Since the 1970s, Tsangaris has written poetry, performed as a soloist and with various musical groups (among others, Drums off Chaos, Ritim Grup und MIR) and held exhibitions of sketches, theatre instruments and sound installations. He has taken part in festivals such as "Cologne-New York" in New York (1989), "ars electronica" in Linz (1991); "Sound Ways" in St. Petersburg (1995), "Yokohama Arts" (1997) and "Musica-Festival Strasbourg" (1998, together with Hanna Schygulla, and Markus and Simon Stockhausen). His works have been commissioned by, among others, WDR and SWR radio, Bavarian State Opera, Cologne Philharmonia, the Diocesan Museum in Cologne, the Art Foundation of Nordrhein-Westfalen, and the Catholic educational institutes of Cologne and the city of Witten.
Selection:
Tafel 2 for house façade, voices, speaker, mobile instrumentalists, tape recorder, mobile light sources, Fadenorgel, video monitors and construction machines was completed in 1991;
Fadenwerk for piano, tuba, bells and objects in 1992;
An die Vorwelt for large ensemble, two speakers, solo-conductor and light to celebrate 10 years of the Cologne Philharmonia in 1996;
Kugelbahn, a composed installation for one person in the centre in 1997
Fadenorgel, an interactive sound installation for light and sound pendulums (six hanging cd-players) in a church nave;
Labor for soprano and ensembles, performances, live images, installations and drawings in 2005.