Together with the Theater St. Gallen, the Musicalzentrale can exclusively announce the cast for the new musical written by Frank Wildhorn “Einstein – A Matter of Time”, which will come to the stage of the Theater St. Gallen from March 2025.
David Jakobs will be seen in the title role of Albert Einstein; Katia Bischoff takes on the role of Mileva. Also there: Livio Cecini as Prof. Weber and Max Planck as well as Marlon Wehmeier as Marcel Grossmann and Eddington, Jan-Philipp Rekeszus (Prof. Philip Lenard), André Bauer (Milos Maric, Besso, Fritz Haber), Merlin Fargel (Maurice Solovine). and cover Albert Einstein) and Philipp Dietrich (Conrad Habicht and cover Grossmann / Eddington). Anna-Julia Rogers plays Pauline Einstein and Marie Curie, Barbara Obermeier takes on the role of Elsa Löwenthal and Elise Doorn can be seen as Clara Haber. The ensemble is completed by Kelly Panier as ‘The Light’.
The musical traces Einstein’s private life and the eventful career of the global citizen Einstein, from the young, non-conformist physics student at the Zurich Polytechnic to his employment in the Bern patent office to his escape from Nazi Germany and his professorship at Princeton University. At the same time, it is a multifaceted portrait of the academic circles and society in which Einstein moved.
In an interview with the two authors Frank Wildhorn and Gil Mehmert, which we will present to you in the coming weeks, Wildhorn says about “Einstein – A Matter of Time”: “What an honor to open a new show again in St. Gallen to be able to, a place of so many beautiful memories for me. “Einstein” was a wonderfully crazy collaboration with Gil Mehmert, Frank Ramond and my amazing musical partner Koen Schoots, and I know we are all thrilled to bring this work to you! What a larger-than-life figure, what a larger-than-life life!”
Gil Mehmert describes the work on Einstein as “special in itself, as it required intensive preparation in order to really immerse oneself in Albert Einstein’s universe, especially in his path to special and general relativity. Added to this is the challenge of translating this journey into a story that is both captivating and poignant. “This man’s story is also, in many ways, that of a century – and a story of the wisdom, or sometimes lack thereof, of humanity.”
You can of course find the entire cast, the creative team and all play dates at the Theater St. Gallen in our Database entry.
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