Sechs auf einen Streich – Das Märchen von der silbernen Brücke
On 25.12.2024, 14:45, “Sechs auf einen Streich – Das Märchen von der silbernen Brücke” will be broadcast on ARD. If you want to take a look beforehand, you can watch it from 18.12.2024 in the ARD media library. The fairy tale, based on a fairytale by Hertha Vogel-Voll, tells the story of how everyone is in a hurry and families barely have time for each other. Because fewer and fewer stories are being read aloud, the fairytales are in danger of disappearing. One day, the fairytale characters lose their grip and fall out of the book into the world. Rumpelstiltskin (Rauand Taleb), Snow White (Ceci Chuh) and Little Red Riding Hood (Stephanie Amarell) send the siblings Rose (Alma von Aulock) and Heinrich (Leo Alonso-Kallscheuer) on their way to the house of “Liebegüte” (Johanna Gastdorf) in the fairytale forest. Only there can the fairytale book be filled with new life. The witch (Christina Große) and the devil (Detlev Buck), of all people, are there to help them on their way …
Costume designer Bettina Weiß has created a fairytale costume design. The costumes for the characters Liebegüte, the Devil and Snow White were made in our studio according to her designs. Various aprons, caps and bodices also come from our workshop.
“Before we could start work, my team and I invested a lot of time in research. It wasn’t so easy to find historically accurate fairytale characters that we could use as a guide,” says Bettina Weiß. For Snow White (Ceci Cuh), we used white, silk taffeta and gave the dress the typical slit puffed sleeves, which were backed with red fabric.
Two beautiful fabrics were combined for the character of Liebegüte (Johanna Gastdorf): a patterned silk fabric in gold-blue tones with lamé inclusions and an ice-blue, semi-transparent organdy with glitter dots as a cape. “The dress should fall softly and look fairy-like. The team at the Theaterkunst atelier made it exactly according to my ideas,” says Bettina Weiß.
“The devil was a very special challenge. We were inspired by a bison buffalo for the fur structure,” recalls Bettina Weiß. The substructure in the form of a body suit was made according to her designs at Theaterkunst. The fur structure was created in collaboration with costume sculptor Petra Wilke, who spent many hours processing and dyeing various artificial furs. The individual parts were then placed by hand and sewn on in such a way that thick and thin layers of faux fur create a realistic structure. “We adapted a mannequin to Detlev Buck’s measurements for this, as the process took several hours and even days. The aim was, of course, for it to fit perfectly and still leave enough freedom of movement,” says Bettina Weiß.
The claws and tail of the devil were made after extensive research by master woodcarver Damián Valles Castro. The virtuoso woodcarver realized that particularly light wood from the field of model making had to be used so that the tail in particular would not be too heavy and would allow for authentic play.
The devil’s tail is attached to a specially made harness to ensure stability. During their research, the costume team came across an original Defa prop from the 1970s, which served as an example. The decisive factor was the technology behind it. “The devil’s tail is made up of individual hollowed-out elements, inside of which a wire was installed. As a result, this part of the costume remains adjustable and organic,” says Bettina Weiß.
Press pictures: © rbb │ Hardy Spitz / Other photos: Bettina Weiß & Theaterkunst
