Join us in welcoming the esteemed actor Helmut Mooshammer and award-winning pianist Senka Brankovic for a music & literature program that celebrates Jewish cultural life of the 19th and 20th century in Austria and Germany. The artists remember the good times, lament the darkest days of humanity and artistic degradation during the Holocaust – and celebrate survival, the courage of art and creativity, and the will to live! As part of a joint research project about this pivotal time in the history of music and literature, Mooshammer and Brankovic highlight the greatest Jewish composers and writers of the time period, including Arnold Schönberg and Stefan Zweig.
All readings are in English.
The event is followed by a wine reception.
PROGRAM
Alexander Zemlinsky: Four Ballades / Intermezzo
Stefan Zweig
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Fairytale Pictures, Op. 3 / The Princess and the Pea
Hilde Spiel
Arnold Schönberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 / 1 – Mäßige Viertel
Isaac B. Singer | Jakob Wassermann | Joseph Goebbels | Carl Zuckmayer
Walter Arlen: Work Sets You Free
Stefan Zweig
Hans Gál: Sonatina for the Piano, Op. 58, Nr. 2
Leo Baeck
Hans Gál: Sonatina for the Piano, Op. 58, Nr. 2
Fania Fenelon
Hans Gál: Sonatina for the Piano, Op. 58, Nr. 2
Viktor Frankl
Hans Gál: Sonatina for the Piano, Op. 58, Nr. 2
Mascha Kaleko
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Senka Brankovic studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. She has won prizes including the Bösendorfer Competition in Vienna as well as the International Art Song Competition in Stuttgart, together with baritone Alexander Puhrer. Concert engagements have taken the pianist to the Musikverein in Vienna, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Berlin Philharmonie, among others. Senka Brankovic has recorded four CDs and teaches at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Helmut Mooshammer was born in Styria, Austria and studied at the Bruckner Conservatory Linz. He held numerous acting engagements at Theater Münster, the Stadttheater Konstanz, the Staatstheater Kassel and at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf. From 2000 to 2009 Helmut Mooshammer was part of the Thalia Theater ensemble in Hamburg, while also teaching at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. He has been a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin since 2009. In 2019 and 2020 he was part of the Jedermann ensemble at the Salzburg Festival.
Image © Senka Brankovic & Helmut Mooshammer