Detailed information
Composer
Franz Schubert
Duration
75 min
Language
german with polish subtitles
Where?
100cznia (Galeria Layup), Gdańsk
Creatives
concept, direction, staging
Łukasz Konieczny
choreography, staging
Boris Randzio
video projections
Piotr Opawski
lights
Ray Genesis
Description
Dedicated to Professor Tadeusz Krzeszowiak
WINTERREISE Schubert/Müller/Baczyński is a multimedia music-vocal-dance project based on Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey), set to the poetry of Wilhelm Müller, and accompanied by the poetry of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944) — an outstanding poet and participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, who fought against the German occupation.
Baczyński’s poetry is the voice of the young generation of that time, a generation whose freedom, future, and dreams were taken away by war. His poems often express themes of a solitary journey and a final path. In the performance, they create an additional layer of communication with the audience and become a unique tool of artistic dialogue.
The directorial concept involves incorporating into the video projections an original element — the authentic notebook of Kazimierz Fidler, which documents his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Fidler was one of hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the Nazi extermination system and, privately, the great-grandfather of singer and performer Łukasz Konieczny.
The stage action is interdisciplinary in nature, as a synthesis of singing, dance, and pantomime.
The songs are performed in German with Polish translations by Łukasz Konieczny.
The idea to use Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s poetry was put forward by Michael Strum and Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz
Selection and collage: Łukasz Konieczny
WINTERREISE Schubert/Müller/Baczyński is a multimedia music-vocal-dance project based on Franz Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey), set to the poetry of Wilhelm Müller, and accompanied by the poetry of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921–1944) — an outstanding poet and participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, who fought against the German occupation.
Baczyński’s poetry is the voice of the young generation of that time, a generation whose freedom, future, and dreams were taken away by war. His poems often express themes of a solitary journey and a final path. In the performance, they create an additional layer of communication with the audience and become a unique tool of artistic dialogue.
The directorial concept involves incorporating into the video projections an original element — the authentic notebook of Kazimierz Fidler, which documents his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp. Fidler was one of hundreds of thousands of prisoners in the Nazi extermination system and, privately, the great-grandfather of singer and performer Łukasz Konieczny.
The stage action is interdisciplinary in nature, as a synthesis of singing, dance, and pantomime.
The songs are performed in German with Polish translations by Łukasz Konieczny.
The idea to use Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński’s poetry was put forward by Michael Strum and Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz
Selection and collage: Łukasz Konieczny
