Unfortunately I wasn’t at the open-air theatre on Rügen last week to take photos of the new production, that has been delayed since 2020, but for a dose of Ralswiek the theatre company have released a “behind the scenes” video that they shot in 2019:
I should have been on Rügen today
June 17, 2020 By Leave a Comment
Normally this is the week in June when I travel to see the Störtebeker Festspiele on Rügen and write about other places on the island to visit.
Not this year. The corona pandemic means that the theater is closed. So there will be no press preview to visit, no day on the green at the Bodden in Ralswiek, and no Erdbeerbecher in “Zum Störti”.
But until a few years ago the theatre produced DVDs of the performance, and these often pop up on ebay. I recently found the 2010 edition there, and since that is the year before my first visit to the island, it is one that I have never seen. So I will at least have a new play to see. It won’t be the same, though.
Störtebeker 2019: Oath of the Righteous
June 20, 2019 By Leave a Comment
The middle of June and a trip to Rügen can only mean one thing: it’s time for a new production of the Störtebeker Festspiele.
Having returned to the beginning of the story last year, we fast forward to the year 1393 and the siege of Stockholm. Margarete, Queen of Denmark and Norway, has occupied most of Sweden and is hoping to add a third crown to her collection. However Stockholm refusing to surrender, with the pirates provided a supply route back to Mecklenburg. Similar to the division of Berlin many hundred years later, the siege has torn families appart, in some case with members of the same family forced to fight each other.
