"A thousand heartbeats nothing, one heartbeat later ... sparks fly
"A thousand heartbeats nothing, one heartbeat later - your face, one heartbeat later - your blue gaze..." Looking, noticing, contact, meeting - this other person and yourself. Is this the beginning of a story, with an uncertain course and outcome? Perhaps a 'love' story? Dancing butterflies in your stomach? Permanent happiness?
'All you need is love' - love as an existential need that is part of being human.
Love can carry us, allows us to grow beyond ourselves, we feel alive, it gives us strength and energy. But love also leads us to failure, to unfulfilled longing, suffering, pain, despair and loss. Then it takes our strength and robs us of energy.
Love is an inexhaustible source for writing, writing poetry, singing and creating. The 'Duo Mundstücke' shows the many faces of love: enchanting, cheerful, bizarre - oppressive, sad, spiteful.
Ellen Zitzmann creates texts from Droste-Hülshoff to contemporary literature, accompanied by Frank Lienemann on the saxophone, with music from Bach to pop and her own improvisations.