Osterfestival Tirol | The making of Berlin

To mark its 20th anniversary, the Berlin multi-media artist collective from Belgium has chosen to embark on a journey into the unknown. "The making of Berlin" ells the story of a man with a seamless biography lined with success. After a performance of "Zvizdal", a play about an old couple who have continued to live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the artist collective meets an elderly German. During the meeting, the artists become increasingly fascinated by the man’s life story. A couple of chats and as many weeks later, Berlin decide to make him the subject of their new project – their chance acquaintance, a die-hard Berliner who worked for many years as orchestra manager at the Berlin Opera. An unfulfilled dream, in which Wagner’s Götterdämmerung plays a central role, keeps drawing him back to the past. The Berlin collective, supported by the orchestra of the Flanders Opera Ballet and Radio Klara, is determined to make his dream come true. But inconsistencies soon emerge and cracks appear in the story, so that Berlin’s work takes an unexpected turn.