Gerold Gruber, Ulrike Anton and Michael Haas are guests of Andreas Pehl from the Bayerischer Rundfunk and talk about the extraordinary life cycle and the works of the composer Hans Winterberg, persecuted by the National Socialists.
Bavarian Radio Classical, Friday, October 11, 2019, 19:05 – 20 clock A replay of the program will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 2:05 pm.
The program can be heard via the live stream of Bayerischer Rundfunk and is also available via the media library or podcast service of the BR.
On Saturday, October 5, 2019, this year’s “ORF Long Night of Museums” took place throughout Austria for the 20th time. The exil.arte center of mdw was pleased to be part of it for the first time this year and offered guided tours of the current exhibition as well as special program items.
SPECIAL EVENTS throughout the ORF Long Night of Museums
1) Concert: Echo of the Unheard (6:30 pm)
Programme: Hans Gál (1890 – 1987) – Concertino für Flöte und Streichquartett, op. 82 Julius Bürger (1897 – 1995) – Streichquartett Nr. 2 Hans Winterberg (1901 – 1991) – Streichquartett 1957/1970
Read and interpreted by Tamara Stern and Hubert Wolf Text selection: Susanne Abbrederis
3) Concert: From the Lower East to the Upper West Side (10:30 pm)
Music from the Jewish Theatres and Viennese Cafés in New York in the 1930s and 1940s. Esther Wratschko and her ensemble (Andrew Gorman & Lili Weihandl) will perform songs by Leopoldi, Berg and others
Programme:
Alexander Olshanetsky: Ikh hob dikh tsufil lib Abraham Ellstein: Abi gezunt Shalom Secunda: Bay mir bistu sheyn Jimmy Berg: Man stellt sich um! Hermann Leopoldi: Ja da wär´s halt gut, wenn man Englisch könnt Jimmy Berg: Small Café near Central Park West
Rektor of the mdw – University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna Ulrike Sych and head of the exil.arte Center Gerold Gruber
The international Symposium „Jewish Music in South Germany – History, Exile, Continuance“ initiated by Tina Frühauf, took place at Munich’s University for Music and Performing Arts on July 11th and 12th 2019. It presented a wide spectrum of creativity current in Southern Germany prior to 1933, and included papers on both secular and liturgical works. exil.arte was represented by DDr. Prof. Gerold Gruber and Dr. Ulrike Anton both giving their papers on life and work of Hans Winterberg and Dr. Michael Haas, who spoke on the Kulturbund and New Zealand exile-composer Robert Fuchs. Documentation on Hans Winterberg as well as the estate of Robert Fuchs make up part of the archive of the exil.arte Center.
a.o. Univ.-Prof. DDr. h.c. Gerold Gruber
Peter Kreitmeir
Dr. Ulrike Anton
Dr. Michael Haas
Dr. Michael Haas
Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Keller der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Senior Researcher Michael Haas has release a new article on his blog „Forbidden Music“ about Richard Fuchs: „Jewish Destiny“ and the defiance of Richard Fuchs. Read the full article here.
Fuchs studied architecture and music in Karlsruhe. After his doctorate, he worked and gained considerable recognition as an architect after the First World War. 1935 he was forbidden to carry on working as an architect and began his new career as composer with the Jewish Cultural League. The synagogues he designed and built were burnt down during the Kristallnacht pogroms in November 1938. He fled Germany to New Zealand via England. His abiding aspiration was establishing a synthesis between Jewish and German music.
The exil.arte Center expanded on 21.05.2019 its exhibition “When I compose, I’m back in Vienna” with a portrayal of the life and work of Erwin Piscator and Maria Ley Piscator under the title “Political Theater in Exile”. This expansion is part of The Lahr of Leitis Academy & Archive, which was recently acquired by the exil.arte center.
The exhibition shows Piscator’s significant influence on the development of the theater on both sides of the Atlantic. Piscator firmly believed that “art only serves its purpose if it contributes to human improvement.”
The exhibtion is open daily (Tuesday – Saturday from 3 pm to 7pm)
ORF RadioCafé Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Wien Concert Michael Graubart
Works: Chamber music by Michael Graubart
With: Ulrike Anton, flute, Christine Roider, violoncello, Rafal Morzyczki, piano; WISE – Wien International Soloists Ensemble: Édua Zádory, violin, Andrea Nikolic, violin, Marta Potulska, Anzél Gerber, violoncello; Irene Suchy, Moderation. Irene Suchy begleitet den Komponisten Michael Graubart, der zum Konzert nach Wien kommen wird, auf seiner Reise in die Vergangenheit und spricht mit ihm über seinen musikalischen Werdegang sowie über seine Werke. Weitere Interviewpartner sind Gerold Gruber, Leiter und Gründer von exil.arte, sowie die Flötistin Ulrike Anton, für die Michael Graubart komponiert hat.
