Marius Felix Lange
Krieg
Stell dir vor, er wäre hier**
»If there was war in our country, where would you go?« Maybe you would flee to Egypt where it seems safe for you and your family. Maybe you would sell cakes as a street vendor and would try to fit in. But you still would think of your country and your home every single day and you would wonder where home exactly is? Is it that country, ravaged by war, to which you cannot return to? Or is it that new place, where you have found friends but will always remain a stranger?
In her unabashed essay War – Imagine it to be here, the Danish author Janne Teller challenges our imagination as well as our capacity for empathy in relation to the global situation at present. The poetic power of lyricist Nora Gomringer’s verses contrast with Teller’s direct style of written language. Composer Marius Felix Lange creates a classical string quartet and by including vocals he forms it into a political and contemporary music theatre.
Showtimes
Fri, April 27, 7pm | Wed, May 2, 11am*
Mon, May 7, 7pm | Wed, May 9, 11am*
Tue, May 15, 7pm | Wed, May 16, 11am*
Thur, May 17, 11am* | Fri, May 18, 7pm
* School event
The following shows have been cancelled
Sun, April 29, 5pm | Fri, May 4, 7pm
Sat, May 5, 7pm | Sun, May 6, 5pm
Mon, May 14, 7pm
With: Sting quartett of the Staatsorchesters Stuttgart | Soloist singers
**Janne Teller, KRIEG. STELL DIR VOR, ER WÄRE HIER. Translated from Danish by Sigrid C. Engeler. © Carl Hanser Verlag München 2011.
Lange, Gomringer, by permission of the MUSIKVERLAGE HANS SIKORSKI GMBH&CO KG, Hamburg
In her unabashed essay War – Imagine it to be here, the Danish author Janne Teller challenges our imagination as well as our capacity for empathy in relation to the global situation at present. The poetic power of lyricist Nora Gomringer’s verses contrast with Teller’s direct style of written language. Composer Marius Felix Lange creates a classical string quartet and by including vocals he forms it into a political and contemporary music theatre.
Showtimes
Fri, April 27, 7pm | Wed, May 2, 11am*
Mon, May 7, 7pm | Wed, May 9, 11am*
Tue, May 15, 7pm | Wed, May 16, 11am*
Thur, May 17, 11am* | Fri, May 18, 7pm
* School event
The following shows have been cancelled
Sun, April 29, 5pm | Fri, May 4, 7pm
Sat, May 5, 7pm | Sun, May 6, 5pm
Mon, May 14, 7pm
With: Sting quartett of the Staatsorchesters Stuttgart | Soloist singers
**Janne Teller, KRIEG. STELL DIR VOR, ER WÄRE HIER. Translated from Danish by Sigrid C. Engeler. © Carl Hanser Verlag München 2011.
Lange, Gomringer, by permission of the MUSIKVERLAGE HANS SIKORSKI GMBH&CO KG, Hamburg