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Actor's Nausea - Members
Christina Anders | Stephan "Bix" Breidenbach | Tilman Floehr | Michele Gurr | Christiane Heetkamp | Richard Jung | Elisabeth Kuth | Thomas Michalski | Julia Osterbrink | Miriam Piel | Anna Ravenstein | Tanja S. Romich | Andrea Schmitz | Antje Schumacher | Julia Schwenner | Nico Siegmund | Manuela Sonntag | Benedikt Sonntag | Cordula Ulbrich | Sabrina Wczasek | Soeren Wellens | Jan Winkler
Christina Anders
Real life occupation: Reading, writing, teaching students
Joined: 2009
Plays: Dear Octopus, Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: There are so many...
Stephan "Bix" Breidenbach
Real life occupation: Trainee Softwareengineering; Student Scientific Programming (BA FH-Aachen); Music (singer, guitar, base-guitar, clarinet, accordeon)
Joined: October 2003, rejoined April 2008
Plays: Woody Allen - "God" (Trichinosis); Arthur Miller - "The Crucible" (Giles Corey); Jane Austen - "Pride and Prejudice" (Mr. Wickham); Dodie Smith - "Dear Octopus" (Kenneth Harvey); William Shakespeare - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Theseus Duke of Athens)
Favourite Quote: "This machine, which I've spent six months designing in my brother-in-law's shop, holds the answer." Trichinosis, God
"I am Zeus, God of Gods! Worker of miracles! Creator of the Universe! I bring salvation to all!" in a wonderful Italian accent Bursitis (as Zeus), God
"More weight" The Crucible
"A fart on Thomas Putnam..." Giles Corey, The Crucible
"Red Hats..." Kenneth Harvey, Dear Octopus
"Charge!" Teddy Brewster, Arsenic and old Lace
"Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword" Theseus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tilman Floehr
Real life occupation: Studies Biology
Joined: April 2008
Plays: "The Crucible", "Pride & Prejudice", "Dear Octopus" (backstage), "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Favourite Quote : "That homicidal feeling is creeping over me that invariably attacks me at tea parties." - Mr. Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
John Proctor after having ripped his confession: "I can. And there's your first marvel, that I can. You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to weave a banner with, but white enough to keep it from such dogs." - John Proctor, The Crucible
"I have three children - how may I teach them to walk like men in the world, and I sold my friends?" - John Proctor, The Crucible
"You know I never hired a liar (lawyer) in my life, Hathorne." - Bix (Giles Corey)
"I am not used to this poverty; I left a thrifty business in the Barbados to save (serve) the Lord." - Nico (Reverend Parris)
"Damn, it's hell outside!" - Anna after the Wrap Party
Anecdotes and comments: Thanks!
Michele Gurr
Real life occupation: Editor - Assistant to the General Management
Joined: 2006
Plays: Wyrd Sisters, Maskerade
Favourite Quote: "Is this a dagger I see before me?" - "Of course it's a bloody dagger!" (actors in Wyrd Sisters)
"Ja, erigier mir den Hamster!" (Konrad/King Verence backstage)
"He was hung." - "Hanged! People are hanged! It is dead meat that is hung!" - "I appreciate the information. First he was strangeled - and then he was hung." (Mr. Salzella and Mr. Bucket in Maskerade)
"SQUEAK!" (Death of Rats, Maskerade)
Anecdotes and comments: Galoppierender Irrsinn und Spaß sind näher beisammen, als man meinen mag - überzeugt euch selbst!
Christiane Heetkamp
Real life occupation: studies maths and and computer sciences to become a teacher
Dabei seit: July 2009
Plays: Dear Octopus (backstage); A Midsummer Night's Dream
Richard Jung
Real life occupation: I don't know that myself.
Joined: 2009
Plays: Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite quote: "Je planmäßiger die Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer vermag sie der Zufall zu treffen." Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Anecdotes and comments: It all just happened!
Elisabeth Kuth
Rreal life occupation: Studies English and German studies
Joined: Winter semester 2005/06
Plays: Arsenic and old lace, Maskerade, The crucible, Pride and Prejudice (I only helped sewing), Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote:
"Was heißt modern? Betonen Sie das Wort mal anders!" (Richard Strauss)
Anecdotet and comments: anecdotes? Well, after each performance Sarah pins notes onto the doors backstage, so that we know what was good during the last performance and what was not. The definitely most disturbing note was "Ben, please wear pants!" I am still in favour of playing The Rocky Horror Show.
Thomas Michalski
Real life occupation: Studies philosophy and German
Joined 2006
Plays: "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Maskerade", "The Crucible", "Pride and Prejudice", "Dear Octopus", "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Favourite quote: "He has his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him." - Elizabeth Proctor, The Crucible
Anecdotes and comments: Oh well, I like the group into which I got drawn from a simple "Can you do a poster for us?" and "Would you be willing to do box office, please?"It is like a big family and especially when the performances are approaching and helpers and former actors come back from various directions to make this things happen, I feel simply comfortable.One of my tutors once said to me that you had to experience the preparations of a play once - you learn more about literature than you would during all studies. I guess he was right...
Julia Osterbrink
Real life occupation: studies English Literature and Linguistics and philosophie, works in the department's library
Joined: God... must have been 2005.
Plays: God, Pilk's Madhouse, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace, Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice (Comfort and Despair - Liebe auf dem Korridor), Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: Ben, please wear pants!
Anecdotes and comments: too many to mention. However: Soeren in my green velvet dress. That is something I'll never forget. "Do I really have that hairy legs?"
Miriam Piel
Real life occupation: Learning to be an assistant for foreign languages
Joined: March 2008
Plays: The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote:
"This is contempt, sir! Contempt!" The Crucible
"No, Mr Collins, I will as plainly as possible say no!" Pride and Prejudice
Anecdotes and comments: I'm grateful for being a part of the group! :)
Anna Ravenstein
Real life occupation: Teacher in training
Joined: 2003
Plays: God, Pilk's Madhouse, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace, Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice + Love on the Corridor, Dear Octopus (Make-up)
Favourite Quote: "Fuck you bitch, that's twice this week" (God), "Do you love me Roberta?" (Pilk's Madhouse)
Anecdotes and comments: When Néo explained that she was in Actor's Nausea for her talent, I asked her why I was important for the group. Her answer (and I quote her accurately I'm not able to help the bad language ;-)): "You're the tits of Actor's Nausea!" Kai passing by the door: "And the great ass of Actor's Nausea!"
Tanja S. Romich 
Real life occupation: Editor
Joined: April 2002
Plays: Politically Correct Fairy Tales, Poetry in Motion, Bums on Seats, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace (Director), The Crucible (Light and Sound), Pride & Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: "And then he pressed against me with his... jumbo sausage...!" Estelle Nettlebank, Bums on Seats
"Fooooooool!" The Duchess, Wyrd Sisters
"Did you never learn any biology?" - "I hope I was never so unfeminine" Pride & Prejudice
Anecdotes and comments: "When you hear the word 'concept' in theatre, you know you're in deep shit...!" (Mo, Bums on Seats)
Andrea Schmitz
Real lilfe occupation: Real life...?
Joined: 2006
Plays: Arsenic and Old Lace, Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: Mrs. Bennet: I like her prodigiously. She's not a bit pretty.
Thomas Putnam: The Putnam seed has peopled this province.
Anecdotes and comments: S.W.: "Yes, well, something happened, but don't tell Ela... I started to hand out the letters and when I had almost finished I realised they are addressed individually..."
Antje Schumacher
Real life occupation: Research assistant
Joined: April 2008
Plays: The Crucible, Pride & Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote:
"That homicidal feeling is creeping over me that invariably attacks me at tea parties." - Mr Bennet, Pride & Prejudice
Julia Schwenner
to follow...
Nico Siegmund
Real life occupation: Teacher (okay... in training...)
Joined: Summer 2006
Plays: "Maskerade", "The Crucible", "Pride and Prejudice", "Dear Octopus" (Light)
Favourite Quote:
"It's hell outside" (Anna after a wrap party)
"'e's gone" (Soeren as Milo Perrier in Murder by Death and as bystander in Maskerade)
"Spaghetti Carbonara con leche" (me as Enrico Basilica in Maskerade)
Anecdotes and comments: Well, when I think about the chaos that emerges every sinlge time before a performance, about everyone panicking before / during / after the last dress rehearsal and how everything turned out well in the end, I finally understand what "positive stress" means!
Manuela Sonntag 
Real life occupation: English Literature/History & Philosophy M.A.
Joined: WS 2002
Plays: Lunch with God, Poetry in Motion, God, Shakespeare auf dem Korridor, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace (technical staff), Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote : "Thirty fucking seconds!" (Lunch with God)
"Gather round ye greeks..." (on AND off stage quote God;)
"Things that try to look like things often do look more like things than things...but I don't hold with encouraging it!" (Wyrd Sisters)
"You recognize him because he's got a mask on??? You know who he is, because you don't know how he is??!!??" (Maskerade)
"I am very... displeased!" (Pride & Prejudice)
Anecdotes and comments: Come and join, you get wrap-parties! Quote: "Tell me, Néo, just how late do wrap parties end?" - "I can't remeber any..."
Benedikt Sonntag 
Real life occupation: real life?
Joined: 2000
Plays:Opposites Attract, Joseph Andrews, Politically Correct Fairy Tales, Bums on Seats, Lunch with God, Poetry in Motion, God, Wyrd Sisters, Arsenic and Old Lace, Maskerade, The Crucible, Pride and Prejudice, Dear Octopus, A Midsummer Night's Dream + Mitarbeit bei Shakespeare auf dem Korridor und Comfort and Despair
Favourite Quote : "Even if I should succumb to a testosterone-induced coma of passion for you and your increasingly saggy physical charms, this thing would be of about as much use to me as a ham sandwich at a bar mitzvah, wouldn't it!?" - Hugo Roscoff, Bums on Seats
"Da muss mehr Eiter drauf!" - The Michele Gurr approach to make-up
"Opera works, because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong." - Mr Salzella, Maskerade
Anecdotes and comments: "Come to the theatre", they said! "That is an experience!", they said. They were so right... One could go on and on and on with anecdotes and quotes. I own this lot loads of wonderful moments. Let's just say: It honestly was and is a pleasure.
Cordula Ulbrich
Macht im richtigen Leben: Biologie studieren
Dabei seit: Oktober 2009
Stücke: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sabrina Wczasek
Real life occupation: studies engineering at the RWTH
Joined: Autumn 2009
Plays: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite quote: It's not the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in dog...
Anecdotes snd comments: This is a veeery nice group...
Soeren Wellens
Real life occupation: German, French and Spanish teacher in England
Joined: April 2002
Plays: Politically Correct Fairy Tales; Bums on Seats; Poetry in Motion; God; Pilk's Madhouse; (Wyrd Sisters - cameo); Maskerade
Favourite Quote : I can only recall one at the moment: HAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anecdotes and comments: * I'll never forget the moment during Bums on Seats when I forgot my line, jumped three pages ahead and lookd at Tanja in total panic and she in the same panic telepathically told me that she could not help me at all.
* Silvia's performance of Girls just wanna have fun was and is and will be uncomparable and unforgettable.
* There is a life after Actor's Nausea - but it's not the same!!!
* I've never met such a chaotic lot that always manages to have neither lines nor props at hand one week before opening night and then totally rocks!!!
Jan Winkler
Real life occupation: studying, music, work.
Joined: 2005
Plays: Arsenic and Old Lace (Dr. Einstein), Maskerade (Light), The Crucible (Light); Pride and Prejudice (Charles Bingley), Dear Octopus (Light), A Midsummer Night's Dream
Favourite Quote: "Look, it's hell outside" ; " Tschonnie, I schlippt."