Ulrich Tukur and Christian Redl present the wonderful language of German ballads and poems and their narrative art when it comes to love and murder.
Ulrich Tukur, recitation
Christian Redl, recitation
Olena Kushpler, piano
"From the magic of a lingering language"
German poems and ballads
In a time in which languages are increasingly neglected and neglected and visual overstimulation, the language artists Ulrich Tukur and Christian Redl want to remind us of the beginnings, of the origins of theater: the text, the language with which a good story is told. In addition to their favorite poems, they have chosen a form that has almost been unjustly forgotten: The ballad. Most people only know it as an agonizing memory from German lessons.
But like the detective novel, it thrives on moments of suspense and thrilling effects. And as in this related genre, it is always about murder, adultery, seduction, infanticide and unrequited love, as Friedrich Schiller, himself an enthusiastic balladeer, noted.
The source is often very popular stories of murder and death, hauntings or love and infidelity. They repeatedly describe the conflict of the individual with society and pose the eternal questions of justice, fate and guilt. But if you read carefully and a little against the grain of the rhymed surface, you will find the proximity to ballads, comedy and colportage, sex and crime. Like an old tabloid newspaper at the highest literary level.