| 27. July 2024 | ||
| 17:05 |
Arnold Schönberg (1874–1951) „Verklärte Nacht“, Dorothée Hahne “RestZeit” für 5saitige E-Violine & Live-Electronic u.a.
The ingenious setting of a text that is problematic from today’s perspective will be the focus of yet another extraordinary opening concert in Hitzacker. Arnold Schönberg’s sextet “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), a marvel of late Romantic tightrope walking in terms of harmony, is to be given a new edition with barbs and references to the work when the award-winning Berlin actress Anna Thalbach recites and the Kuss Quartet, expanded by two young stars, performs.
You can find the complete festival program here.
Kuss Quartet, Sào Soulez Larivière – viola, Julia Hagen – violoncello, Anna Thalbach – recitation
We world!
Today they would be pop stars, individually and together. Ida Dehmel (1870-1942) as a curator, feminist cultural politician and lifestyle influencer; her husband Richard Dehmel (1863-1920) as a successful author, mentor and patron of young artists, with a great passion for music, beauty in general and the Elbe landscapes outside Hamburg. The young Arnold Schönberg – one of the most passionate Dehmel admirers of his generation – set his poem of the same name to music with “Verklärte Nacht”.
The Dehmels lived a new “freedom” in art, in their private lives and in society. They define the traditional couple as an autonomous “we world”, freely seeking partners, especially in the choice of their erotic counterpart. Richard goes to the First World War with “Hurray”, then returns as a pacifist, propagates international law and that politics would be better in the hands of women. Ida founds the Hamburg Women’s Club to overcome “caste thinking” among the ladies of society, as well as the GEDOK, the oldest and largest European network for women artists from many disciplines. She survived her husband and lived alone in the “Dehmel House” in Blankenese until she ended her own life in 1942.
The preoccupation with “the Dehmels” opened up an unexpected musical and literary resonance chamber. Alban Berg’s string quartet “Lyrische Suite”, for example, revealed itself posthumously as a disguised love greeting to his relationship with Hanna Fuchs, which had been kept secret all his life, playing with the initials AB and HF in a variety of ways. The composers Rebecca Saunders and Dorothée Hahne are represented in the program in the spirit of Ida Dehmel’s fight for her fellow female artists. Hugo Wolf’s most heartfelt “Prayer” challenges the contradiction of the “Dirty Old Man” Charles Bukowski. Ida’s wedding dress evokes Madonna’s “Vogue” and her witty letters join forces with Dagrun Hintze’s poems from the poetry collection “Einvernehmlicher Sex”.
Date: 27th July 2024 05:05 p.m.
Venue: VERDO Kultur- & Tagungszentrum Hitzacker (Elbe)
Dr.-Helmut-Meyer-Weg 1, (D) 29456 Hitzacker (Elbe)
