With their latest, eighth program, Roman Knižka and OPUS 45 turn their attention to the dramatic final phase of the Weimar Republic
With their latest, eighth program, Roman Knižka and OPUS 45 turn their attention to the dramatic final phase of the Weimar Republic. The title picks up on a haunting line from Kurt Tucholsky's poem "Deutschland erwache" (Germany awake).
It is a sharply worded warning against radicalization, violence and the collapse of democratic norms. Texts by Erich Kästner, Mascha Kaleko, Kurt Tucholsky, Victor Klemperer, Sebastian Hafner and Doris Thompson meet music by Hans Eisler, Kurt Weill, Erwin Schulhoff, Paul Juon and Jean Francaix as well as swing and pop songs by Cole Porter and the Comedian Harmonists.
The wind quintet consists of musicians from the Hamburg State Opera, the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Hanover and the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.
Together with actor Roman Knižka, they have been exploring new cross-disciplinary paths for some time now. The result is eight literary concerts that are unique in the German-speaking concert landscape.
History as a warning. Germany, can't you see that?
The fall of the Weimar Republic 1929 - 1933
Roman Knižka
Reads texts by Kästner, Kaléko, Brecht and Tucholsky
Wind quintet OPUS 45
Plays works by Eisler, Weill, Cole Porter and others
Free admission
