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17 October 2024 Weimar (Germany)
Faust - A German Folk Saga
Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Frank Strobel - Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
Program Info: Bernd Schultheis - Faust Directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (Germany 1926) with Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn and others Music Bernd Schultheis (1999/2000)
In 1926, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau brought the German folk tale “Faust” to the big screen for Ufa, based on motifs from the Goethe classic. As in “Nosferatu,” the director once again managed to make the fantastic seem real and reality seem fantastic in the macabre scenes. The old game is about eternal youth, about the powers of good and evil, about the desired world domination of the fallen angel Lucifer, about seduction, love and seducability - mirroring is a main motif of the film.
In his composition of the confusing and captivating flood of images, Bernd Schultheis primarily expresses the restlessness, the searching and wandering of the characters, without underpinning the moral level of the film too much. In this way, the music looks for the spaces in between and underlies the images with a second, alternative time level - in search of what is really important...
Frank Strobel is one of the most internationally accomplished conductors with an incredibly diverse stylistically diverse repertoire. He has been one of the most committed protagonists in the interdisciplinary field of film and music for years and has made a significant contribution to the film concert finding its way into the leading opera and concert halls. In addition to his role as chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester, Strobel gives silent film concerts at leading festivals and orchestras, including in Paris, Milan, Gothenburg, Helsinki, Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg, Oslo, Seattle, Dresden, Sydney, Vienna and Zurich. He works as a consultant for the silent film program of the TV station ZDF/ARTE.
Since his parents ran a cinema in Munich, Frank Strobel came into contact with films as a child and, from the perspective of the projection room, soon discovered the fascinating role of music as an extended narrative layer to moving images. Since then he has been committed to the preservation, rediscovery and new composition of film music - a musician with heart and soul who burns for the genre like no other.
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