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And the music of the street-organ, we never ever will forget…
(Und die Musik vom Leierkasten, vergessen wir im Leben nie…)
“The Girls of Room 28 in Israel“, January 2010
A project of the organisation Room 28 e.V., Berlin in the context of the israeli-German project of the Gewandhaus Children’s Choir Leipzig and the Moan Choir Israel Brundibár – a children’s opera bringing Germany and Israel together.
We cordially thank our supporters,* the German’s Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, and the Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv for kind and essential local support. We also thank the German Embassy and the Czech Embassy for supporting our events.
More about the project here
Monday, 25 January, 17h, Goethe-Institut, Tel Aviv.
Foto 1: Helga Kinsky
Foto©www.evelinfrerk.de
We invite to a reading from the book “Die Mädchen von Zimmer 28” (in German) with the author Hannelore Brenner-Wonschick and Helga Kinsky (Vienna), whose Theresienstadt diary forms the heart of the book. as well as with Evelina Meravoa from Prague and more of their friends who come together for these current events in Israel. We will also inform about the international cultural and educational project with this group of survivors and draw your attention to the new version of the exhibition for Israel.
Goethe-Institut, Tel Aviv. Weizmann Str. 4. Telefon 03-606055.
The books is published in English by Schocken Books, New York; in Czech by Barrister & Principal, Brno, and in German by Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin.The Exhibition was shown all over the places in Germany, Austria, in the Czech Republic and in France with an opening in July 2009 in Marseille.
Brundibár and the Girls of Room 28
Wednesday, 27 January, 20.30h, Enav Center, Tel Aviv
Under the patronage of Federal German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
Room 28 e,V, and the GewandhausKinderchor Leipzig realize this evening together with and in honour of ‘The Girls of Room 28’ by presenting their exhibition (of the same name) and by listening to their story. Our guests will hear from those women what sustained their spirits in Theresienstadt concentration camp, hear about life in Room 28, about their carers and teachers, about their friends and friendships, hear about how they played in Brundibár and what it meant to them; and also how they founded a community with their own motto, emblem, song and flag - with the ‘Maa’gal’. more (pdf Enav Center)
The entrance is free.
Mltilingual event English, Hebrew, German and Czech (partly translated)
Einav Culture Center, Ibn-Givrol Street 71 (on top of the Gan Hair shopping center)
Please register your visit via Email: vorstand@room28.org
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And the music of the street organ, we never ever will forget…
Foto © www.evelinfrerk.de
Cabaret in Theresienstadt
Songs and Texts from Leo Strauss, Walter Lindenbaum, Martin Roman, Adolf Strauss and lyrics from Ilse Weber presented by the ensemble from Berlin (in German language)
Friday, January 29, 14h
Felicja Blumental Music Centre, Tel Aviv.
Entrance is free, reservations requested via:
FBMC, Bialik Street, Tel Aviv /info@fbmc.co.il
telephone: +972-3-6201185 www.fbmc.co.il/newcentre
And the music of the street-organ, we never ever will forget…this verse from the famous waltz ‘Wiener Praterleben’ by Siegfried Translateur (1875-1944) was one of the stylistic devices by which the creators of the song, the ‘ghetto’-inmates Martin Roman (music) and Manfred Greiffenhagen (text) evoked in Theresienstadt melodies and images s of a bygone times creating an atmosphere which allowed their audience to forget, at least for a few moments, their troubles and the calamity they were living in. The ensemble Winfried Radeke (director, arranger), Maria Thomaschke and Andreas Jocksch (vocal, recitation) recreates this atmosphere with songs and texts of Leo Strauss, Walter Lindenbaum, Martin Roman, Adolf Strauss as well as with verses from Ilse Weber giving us a sense of the fundamental meaning and power of art in times of failing hope. More (pdf Blumental)
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