Scenic concert evening with the Trio Gilu
What future do we want - for ourselves and for our daughters? On her 18th birthday, Selma receives a letter from her grandmother in which she writes about her childhood, youth and adulthood. This scenic concert evening with the Trio Gilu is inspired by three poets who were not recognized during their lifetime. Karoline von Günderrode and Emily Dickinson could not express themselves or act freely as women; Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger was a young Jewish girl when Hitler came to power.
Three contemporary composers take up these fates: Helena Cánovas i Parés (Spain), Ruben De Gheselle (Belgium) and Martín Letelier (Chile) have set poems by these remarkable personalities to music. The music leads Portuguese director Hugo Portela Larisch to a central question in his production: How does it feel to grow up as a woman? The focus is on the grandmother's letter to her granddaughter Selma, which is also based on interviews with women of different ages and from different cultures.
The program series "Women at Court" is a tribute to Princess Wilhelmine of Hesse-Kassel on her 300th birthday: Who was the woman who was married to the Prussian Prince Heinrich of Rheinsberg? The concerts are an invitation to reflect on female personalities like her while enjoying art - on those who stood in the shadows and yet made their own decisions, took responsibility and left their mark. Wilhelmine thus becomes the namesake for the "Wilhelmines" of today: women who are searching for their way between social expectations and their own voice.
"Women at Court" is a cooperation with the "Conversations at the Rheinsberg Muses Court 2026" of the Rheinsberg Art and Culture Association.
