By Claudia von Duehren
The Herr Intendant is coming by train. “I actually haven’t had time for a driver’s license yet,” laughs Johannes Hallervorden (23). The son of acting star Dieter Hallervorden (86) is under stress: filming, rehearsals AND now his own theater. Almost unnoticed, the junior signed the lease for his stage at Karl-Marx-Allee 133 in March.
There, together with artist agent Joséphine Striebeck-Kellner, he took over the living room theater “Berliner Schnauze” (99 seats) from Marga Bach, who opened the theater in 2018.
Johannes Hallervorden has been performing on the dialect stage since the beginning of May, although he doesn’t like the term. Better what makes the Berliner: big heart, cheeky mouth. He himself has been celebrating the Berlin tongue stroke for a year at Berliner Rundfunk in his rock history column “Hits und Hallervorden”.
He’s not even a native Berliner. He was born in Brittany, where his father still owns an island with a castle. “I went to kindergarten and school there, grew up bilingually,” says the son.
It will be played on the weekends until September, after that there will also be a program during the week Photo: Stefanie Herbst
His own stage is small at 4 x 4 meters, but his, that’s how he sees it. “I wanted to do my own thing.” There is no father-son quarrel behind this, emphasizes Johannes Hallervorden, just the reason to swim artistically free. “I didn’t ask my father for advice either. He does his thing, I do mine, no one judges the other.”
From September 1st his first own production will celebrate its premiere here.
The two-person play tells the story of a young woman and a young man who get to know each other on Tinder during the first Corona lockdown. They have a pizza delivered, spend the night and decide: we won’t do it. But then the news comes that the pizza delivery boy was positive and both of them now have to go through the quarantine together.
“The play has everything I want from a comedy. It’s hilarious, socially critical and political,” enthuses Johannes Hallervorden. Of course, he takes on the male lead himself. “When I act, the theater is full, otherwise we sometimes play here in front of nine spectators,” he openly admits.
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