„Romy, la mer et la musique“

ROMY, LA MER ET LA MUSIQUE
A theatrical chanson evening about Romy Schneider with Jakob Gühring

"Most of what has been written about me is a lie" - Romy Schneider .

In "Romy, la mer et la musique", Jakob Gühring takes a musical and theatrical approach to the myth of Romy Schneider, the South and the Mediterranean. Voices of Romy Schneider, her acting partners, her film roles and companions meet chansons of the 20th century and create a filigree spatial composition.
The many facets of Romy Schneider between glamour and tragedy, between longing and idealization, between artistic excellence and deep suffering are taken up in the evening. The chansons tie in with the contradictions of Romy Schneider's character and unite the great themes of humanity in musical expression.

Jakob Gühring interprets chansons by Yves Montand, Nino Ferrer, Paolo Conte and many others on piano, guitar and accordion in a multilingual and musically virtuoso manner, as he did with his first acting-musical project "L ́homme et la musique" in front of enthusiastic audiences in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Based on motifs from "Soudain Romy Schneider" by Guillaume Poix (Verlag Théâtrales, 2018).

Jakob Gühring, born near Stuttgart in 1998, studied acting at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts from 2019-2024. In addition to engagements at theaters such as the Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Rabenhoftheater Vienna, he works as an actor for film+television, as a pianist and as a speaker for rbbKultur, Deutschlandfunk and SWR. In 2022, he received the O.E. Hasse Prize for the Promotion of Outstanding Talent from the Academy of Arts and was awarded the third main prize in the chanson category at the Federal Singing Competition in Berlin in 2023