Das Wunder von Bern musical
Tonight is the world premiere for Das Wunder von Bern, Hamburg’s new mega attraction for musical fans. The musical is an adaptation of The Miracle of Bern,
a 2003 film by Sönke Wortmann, which tells the story of a German family (particularly of a young boy and his depressed ex-POW father) and the unexpected West German miracle victory in the 1954 World Cup Final in Bern, Switzerland.
This is likely the biggest use of Emil Bertell’s Voyage (Fenotype, 2013) so far.
The musical’s home is the newly built Stage Theater an der Elbe at the Port of Hamburg.
For this application, Voyage has been stripped down of its loops and swashes. The font comes with a large number of alternates, but these reduced glyphs are not part of them.
To get to the venue, visitors are ferried across the River Elbe by a dedicated shuttle.
