Noam Brusilovsky (GER/ISR)

MITLÄUFER (Followers) is a historical exploration of the contradictory biographies of those whose close contacts with the Nazi party helped them to reach the top echelons of the theatre.

Shortly after the stage director Oskar Walleck was named General Director of the Bavarian State Theatre by the «Reich’s Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda» Joseph Goebbels in 1934, he presented his cultural and political vision to the people of Munich: «we will work to create a theatre of the Third Reich with the aim of achieving the National Socialist cultural will». Once the Nazi dictatorship was over, Walleck the former SS man with the rank of «Standartenführer» promptly claimed in his court hearing that as Artistic Director he had conducted «active resistance against the violent rule of the National Socialists».

Commissioned by the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel Munich.

Nestroy Preis 2022

Nestroy Prize 2022

participation in the festivals radikal jung 2018, Munich and Fast Forward 2018, Dresden.

Nomination for the “Best Young Author of the Year 2018” by Theater Heute.

participation in the festivals radikal jung 2018, Munich and Fast Forward 2018, Dresden.

Nomination for the “Best Young Author of the Year 2018” by Theater Heute.

Libretto: Noam Brusilovsky
Composition: Tobias Purfürst

Jessica and Brian, a tourist couple, visit Berlin’s most famous techno club. They are glad to have made it in, as not everyone is allowed inside the huge legendary industrial hall. Their plan: dance, take drugs, surrender to the sound. A few hours later, Jessica is found on the floor by club staff. The reason: intoxication with high a dosis of ecstasy. She passes away after a few hours.
The radiophonic techno opera EXCESS tells of dying in a club. In an uninterrupted techno set, the protagonist Jessica (Susanna Hurrell) sings her death aria. The tragedy is that Jessica is aware of her organs gradually failing but time cannot be flushed back. As in a classical opera, death becomes spectacular in this technoid epic.

For naturalization in Germany, Israeli-born theater director and audio-play author Noam Brusilovsky needs a confirmation of his outstanding artistic achievements in Germany from his employer the ÖRR. In return, the employer demands that Brusilovsky spontaneously steps in for a colleague and stages Goethe’s “Faust” as a radio play in the shortest possible time. Brusilovsky, however, has never read the classic – THE German-language oevre – which in no way prevents him from getting involved in the deal!

FAUST (HAB’ ICH NIE GELESEN) by Noam Brusilovsky
Duration: 75 min.
With: Bibiana Beglau, Itay Tiran, Walter Kreye, Matthias Leja, Almut Henkel a. o.
Music: Tobias Purfürst
Director: the author
Production: SWR / Deutschlandfunk 2022

Nominated for Prix Europa (Audio Fiction) 2023
Radio play of the month, December 2022

2022 Radio Drama Prize of the Blind War Veterans

ARD Radio Drama Prize 2021