Schubert's American Dream: Interactive Workshop 1
Song Workshop

Bridge builder of song cultures, guitarist, singer and songwriter and formative head of The Erlkings, popular in Heidelberg and on international stages, invites participants to his artistic workshop. With him, well-known songs will be revisited, given their own words and poured into a collective song poem.

The hands-on workshop is part of the "Schubert's American Dream" theme day, which opens an imaginary window into the composer's world of thought on the first Sunday of the festival. On his deathbed, Franz Schubert dreams himself away to America with the Lederstrumpf novels by James Fenimore Cooper - in search of freedom, individual self-determination and that better world that he repeatedly sketches musically in his songs.

The ticket also entitles the holder to enter the subsequent collective concert at 16:30, where the ideas developed in this workshop can be experienced.


Bryan Benner

Baritone and Guitar




All events of the theme day "Schubert's American Dream"