MUT Authors’ Competition 2016

Winners

»Believe Me« (Jury Prize)
»Der (ein)gebildete Kranke – Reloaded!« (Audience Award and Media Award)

Final Pieces

»Believe Me« by Ilann M. Maazel (music, book and lyrics)
»Change of Hearts« by Alan Becker (music, book and lyrics)
»Der (ein)gebildete Kranke ‒ Reloaded!« by Sebastian Brandmeir (music) and Florian Stanek (book and lyrics)
»Love on Ice« by Jeffrey Lodin (music), Bill Nabel and William Squier (book and lyrics)
»The Virtual Mirror« by Stefan Wurz (music), Wolfgang Walk (book and lyrics) and Mark L. Barrett (editor)
»Wolfsjagd« by Jasper Sonne (music, book and lyrics)

Cast

Valentina Inzko Fink, Valerie Luksch, Wiebke Isabella Neulist, Tamara Pascual, Laura Pfister, Lisa Rothhardt, Patrizia Unger, Sophie Mefan, Katharina Wollmann, Claudio Gottschalk-Schmitt, Robert Lankester, Matias Lavall, Benjamin Oeser, Johannes Osenberg, Nico Soller, Tobias Stemmer, Daniel Wagner (students of the Musical course at the Theatre Academy August Everding and the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich) under the direction of Nicole Claudia Weber and the musical direction of Tom Bitterlich

Jury

Matthias Davids (director and Artistic Director of the musical section at the Landestheater Linz), John Owen Edwards (West End conductor), Andreas Gergen (director and Opera Director of the Salzburg Landestheater), Séan Gray (Managing Director of Josef Weinberger Ltd. London), Josef E. Köpplinger (Chairman of the Jury, Artistic Director of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, director), Stephan Kopf (Managing Director of Musik und Bühne Verlagsgesellschaft mbH), Peter Lund (director, author and Head of the Musical/Show programme at the Berlin University of the Arts), Michael Alexander Rinz (Managing Dramaturg of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz), Marc Schubring (composer), Werner Signer (Managing Director of the Theater St. Gallen), Markus Spiegel (music producer and media consultant), Moritz Staemmler (Managing Director of Felix Bloch Erben GmbH & Co. KG), Dr. Maria Teuchmann (Managing Director of Thomas Sessler Verlag GmbH), Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz (Chief Dramaturg of the Volksoper Wien)

Media Jury

Rita Argauer (Süddeutsche Zeitung), Robert Braunmüller (Abendzeitung), Georgia Guillaume (ORF), Klaus Dieter Kräft (musicals ‒ Das Musicalmagazin), Franziska Stürz (Bayerischer Rundfunk), Markus Thiel (Münchner Merkur), Oliver Wünsch (Blickpunkt Musical)

Panel Discussion in cooperation with the Deutsche Musical Akademie

In the run-up to the final presentation, Josef E. Köpplinger (Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz), Werner Signer (Theater St. Gallen), Simone Linhof (Stage Entertainment), Stephan Kopf (Verlag Musik und Bühne), Markus Thiel (Münchner Merkur) and Marc Gegenfurtner (Kulturreferat München) discussed the question »Where is there room for the German-language musical?«. The discussion was moderated by Marco Jung.

A cooperation with the August Everding Theatre Academy and the Munich Academy of Music and Theatre