Event as part of the Art:walk Festival
A live radio play brings Hear, hear - Heine's winter fairy tale to life. Voices, music and sounds interweave text and sound and make the satirical work a sensual experience - literary, humorous and surprisingly topical.
With Hear, hear - Heine's winter fairy tale, the Heinrich Heine Institute invites you to a special live radio play experience at Palais Wittgenstein as part of the Art:walk Festival. An acoustic production of scenes from Heinrich Heine's famous epic poem will be performed, which still resonates today with its sharp satire, political wit and poetic power. Markus J. Bachmann and Jasmin-Nevin Varul lend voice and presence to Heine's texts, while Tom Duven uses music and sounds to create a sonic layer that atmospherically intensifies what is being said. The audience becomes "ear witnesses" when Hamburg's patron goddess Hammonia lets her favourite poet peer into the chamber pot of Emperor Charlemagne in a way that is as absurd as it is memorable. The idea and direction come from Sabine Brenner-Wilczek, who deliberately places the live radio play at the interface of literature, theatre and sound art. The text is not read, but played, heard and imagined. Wordplay, irony and musical interventions open up new approaches to Heine's winter tale and make its social observations impressively tangible. In the historical ambience of Palais Wittgenstein, the performance develops a special closeness between text and audience. (Source: Art:walk Festival)
