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Stuttgart (dpa) - The Reinhold Otto Mayer Prize, awarded for the first time, goes to a music theater production from Hamburg.
As the foundation and the Stuttgart State Opera announced on Thursday, the composer Catalina Rueda and the librettist Lisa Pottstock from Hamburg will receive the 50,000 euro prize for the work “MELUSINE.
What are you doing on Saturday? ”, A“ monster opera ”for people aged 16 and over.
The first cooperation partner for the prize, which is awarded as a work contract, is the Junge Oper im Nord / JOiN of the Stuttgart State Opera. The award-winning work will be premiered at JOiN in June 2022, and the award ceremony will take place on October 15, 2021 in Stuttgart. The prize was awarded for a new German-language music theater work that has not yet been performed and is aimed at young people aged 16 and over.
The medieval Melusinen saga is linked to the feminist and queer struggle for self-determination of one's own body in the award-winning work by Catalina Rueda and Lisa Pottstock.
According to the jury, the fact that Melusine has to keep her ambiguous body a secret in order to live in human society is the mythological motif for the two award winners, the political and social consequences of which extend to the present day.
«The ambiguous body that changes and reshapes is censored in the patriarchal, heteronormative society.
Or just made a monster. "
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The award was initiated by the entrepreneur Reinhold Otto Mayer.
With the foundation he wanted to promote new musical and theatrical works of theatrical and poetic art created in German, and especially the next generation.
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