Liedzentrum

The tradition of political song poetry closely links the art song with the struggles and defeats of past centuries. In this genre, music and politics were not opposites, but in many cases occasions and places of action. Whether as composition, improvisation or recitation. A prelude to a present in which art is once again increasingly called upon to take a stand.

With Max Czollek (poetry), Hagar Sharvit (vocals), Martine-Nicole Rojina (sound art), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano & poetry) on 30. 03. 2022 at Dezernat 16

Hardly any genre is so closely connected with the question of inwardness and subjectivity as the art song and poetry. But is this true at all and whose subjectivity is meant by it? And what about contemporary literary and musical practices? An evening that listens to these questions between cliché and irritation, canon and intervention.

With Anna Hetzer (poetry), Marie Heeschen (vocals), Claudia Chan (piano) on 4. 04. 2022 in the women's pool in Heidelberg

The German present and history are characterized by migration. And this also applies to music, which has never adhered to national boundaries. New old melodies meet poems on this evening, music from the street meets staves, accordion and Bağlama meet impure rhymes. An evening for those who have just come and have always been there.

With Derya Atakan & Irena Weber (vocals), Marko Dinić & Lütfiye Güzel (poetry), Derya Yıldırım (saz/bağlama), Djordje Davidović (accordion) on 13. 04. 2022 in St. Paul Boxberg

When we say tradition, we also say archive. And when we say archive, we say pop culture. With its techniques of sampling and scratching, referencing and citing, cut-up and mixing, pop culture provides a whole instrument case that will be pulled out of the hobby cellar on this evening. An experiment in which you yourself cannot yet say exactly how it will turn out.

With Sophia Burgos (vocals), Daniel Gerzenberg (piano), Jan Kuhlbrodt (poetry), Simon Stockhausen (sound design & composition) on 20. 04. 2022 at the Karlstorbahnhof in Heidelberg