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The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down.

Title: The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down. Cologne section [videorecording]/ Schauspiel Köln zeigt ; [ein] opera von Robert Wilson ; musik, Philip Glass ; mitarbeit, Heiner Müller ; [German television production] eine co-production vom Schauspiel Köln mit dem WDR ; produktion, Martin Wiebel ; bildregie, Jürgen Flimm.
Publication: Cologne : WDR, 1984.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 1	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 3000 Disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 3000 Disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
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Description

3 videodiscs (DVD) (178 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

German television production of the "Cologne section" of Robert Wilson's opera the Civil wars. Includes an interview with Wilson conducted by Martin Wiebel and Jürgen Flimm in which Wilson discusses the adaptation of his work for TV, and the difficulties and differences between stage works and television works. Wilson explains the title and the significance of the subtitle as an American folk saying. He reads a letter written to him by the co-author of the piece, Heiner Müller. A shortened broadcast version of the work is presented.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Series Statement

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Alternative Title

CIVIL warS. German section.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Opera – Performance.
Television.

Note

Version produced by WDR (Westdeutsches Rundfunk) for broadcast on German television channel WDF.
The German section of the opera entitled The CIVIL warS, which was conceived as a world-wide theater piece to be presented in conjunction with the Olympic games in Los Angeles in 1984. This section consists of Act 1, scene A, Act 3, scene E, Act 4, scene A, and an epilogue.
Credits at end of Disc 3. Full form of names taken from Schauspiel Köln theater program.
According to Byrd Hoffman Foundation records, this performance may have been part of the Theatertreffen, Berlin (festival), May, 1984.
Additional music by: Frederick the Great, Thomas Tallis, Franz Schubert, David Byrne, and Hans Peter Kuhn.
Donor's inventory numbers: CWG 01A, CWG 01B, CWG 01C, CWG 04A, CWG 04B, CWG 04C.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Produced by Kurt Munkasci ; conducted by Michael Riesman ; direction, staging and lighting design by Robert Wilson ; costumes by Yoshio Yabara ; film by Edgardo Cozarinsky and Hella Vietzke ; sound by Hans Peter Kuhn and Dierk Nagel ; lighting by Franz-Peter David and Heinrich Brunke ; masks by Werner Merz ; stage manager, Horst Reder.

Performer (note)

Ingrid Andree, Anna Henkel, Fred Hospowsky, Hannelore Lübeck, Georg Peter-Pilz, Rainer Philippi, Isle Ritter, Alexander Bauermann, Lars Berkowicz, Jörg Schmidt, Sandro Thiemann, F.J. Heumannskämper, Jan Stecker, Frank Arlandt, Heinz-Peter Becker, Claus Brüggemann, Robert Brünning, Walter Dederichs, Andre Dolfen, Rui Faria Monteiro, Ansgar Fendel, Reinhard Goldmann, Michael Kaschytza, Hans-Jörg Knott, Heinz Lindgens, Christian Möller, Martin Pickers, Rainer Resch, Olaf Sauermann, Wolfgang Schauff, Reinhard Schmitz, Franz-Josef Seiter, Stephan Singer, Matthias Sowinski, Volker Strüh, Martin Szafranski, u.v.a. [und viele andere=and many others].

Language (note)

Performed in German, English and French. Introduction in German. Interview in English, with German translation.

Contents

Disc 1. Interview with Robert Wilson / Martin Wiebel ; Jürgen Flimm ; Act 1, Scene A -- Disc 2. Act III, Scene E ; Act IV, Scene A [beginning] -- Disc 3. Act IV, Scene E [concluded] ; Epilogue.

Call Number

NCOX 3000

OCLC

NYPG04-F46

Title

The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down. Cologne section [videorecording]/ Schauspiel Köln zeigt ; [ein] opera von Robert Wilson ; musik, Philip Glass ; mitarbeit, Heiner Müller ; [German television production] eine co-production vom Schauspiel Köln mit dem WDR ; produktion, Martin Wiebel ; bildregie, Jürgen Flimm.

Imprint

Cologne : WDR, 1984.

Edition

[Broadcast version].

Country of Producing Entity

West Germany.

Series

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Produced by Kurt Munkasci ; conducted by Michael Riesman ; direction, staging and lighting design by Robert Wilson ; costumes by Yoshio Yabara ; film by Edgardo Cozarinsky and Hella Vietzke ; sound by Hans Peter Kuhn and Dierk Nagel ; lighting by Franz-Peter David and Heinrich Brunke ; masks by Werner Merz ; stage manager, Horst Reder.

Cast

Ingrid Andree, Anna Henkel, Fred Hospowsky, Hannelore Lübeck, Georg Peter-Pilz, Rainer Philippi, Isle Ritter, Alexander Bauermann, Lars Berkowicz, Jörg Schmidt, Sandro Thiemann, F.J. Heumannskämper, Jan Stecker, Frank Arlandt, Heinz-Peter Becker, Claus Brüggemann, Robert Brünning, Walter Dederichs, Andre Dolfen, Rui Faria Monteiro, Ansgar Fendel, Reinhard Goldmann, Michael Kaschytza, Hans-Jörg Knott, Heinz Lindgens, Christian Möller, Martin Pickers, Rainer Resch, Olaf Sauermann, Wolfgang Schauff, Reinhard Schmitz, Franz-Josef Seiter, Stephan Singer, Matthias Sowinski, Volker Strüh, Martin Szafranski, u.v.a. [und viele andere=and many others].

Language

Performed in German, English and French. Introduction in German. Interview in English, with German translation.

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Added Author

Wilson, Robert, 1941- Civil wars. Cologne section.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- lighting designer.

Glass, Philip, composer.

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995.

Munkasci, Kurt, producer.

Riesman, Michael, conductor.

Yabara,Yoshio, costume designer.

Cozarinsky, Edgardo, filmmaker.

Vietzke, Hella, filmmaker.

Wiens, Wolfgang, translator.

Kuhn, Hans Peter, 1952- sound designer.

Kuhn, Hans Peter, 1952- composer.

Nagel, Dierk, designer.

David, Franz-Peter, lighting designer.

Brunke, Heinrich, lighting designer.

Merz, Werner, designer.

Reder, Horst, stage manager.

Andree, Ingrid, performer.

Henkel, Anna, performer.

Hospowsky, Fred, performer.

Lübeck, Hannelore, performer.

Peter-Pilz, Georg, performer.

Philippi, Rainer, performer.

Ritter, Ilse, performer.

Bauermann, Alexander, performer.

Berkowicz, Lars, performer.

Schmidt, Jörg, performer.

Thiemann, Sandro, performer.

Heumannskämper, F.J, performer.

Stecker, Jan, performer.

Arlandt, Frank, performer.

Becker, Hans-Peter, performer.

Brüggemann, Claus, performer.

Brünning, Robert, performer.

Dederichs, Walter, performer.

Dolfen, Andre, performer.

Monteiro, Rui Faria, performer.

Fendel, Ansgar, performer.

Goldmann, Reinhard, performer.

Kaschytza, Michael, performer.

Knott, Hans-Jörg, performer.

Lindgens, Heinz, performer.

Möller, Christian, performer.

Pickers, Martin, performer.

Resch, Rainer, performer.

Sauermann, Olaf, performer.

Schauff, Wolfgang, performer.

Schmitz, Reinhard, performer.

Seiter, Franz-Josef, performer.

Singer, Stephan, performer.

Sowinski, Matthias, performer.

Strüh, Volker, performer.

Szafranski, Martin, performer.

Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786, music.

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828, music.

Tallis, Thomas, approximately 1505-1585, music.

Byrne, David, 1952- composer.

Wiebel, Martin, producer.

Wiebel, Martin, interviewer.

Flimm, Jürgen, 1941-2023, producer.

Flimm, Jürgen, 1941-2023, interviewer.

Schauspiel Köln, producer.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk/Westdeutsches Fernsehen, producer.

Research Call Number

NCOX 3000

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