Das Narrenschiff

In the organizer's words:

How can music preserve humanity when the world is falling apart at the seams?

The song recital "The Ship of Fools - Songs between Madness and Resistance" explores music as an expression of dignity and inner freedom in times of political persecution.

The focus of the evening is the Dutch-Jewish composer Rosy Wertheim (1888-1949). During the National Socialist occupation, she secretly organized so-called "zwarte avonden" - forbidden song recitals in which her own compositions were also performed. This music became a place of spiritual resistance and self-assertion against exclusion and violence.

The program is complemented by compositions by the Dutch swing duo Johnny & Jones, Max Kowalski and their own arrangements of well-known Jewish melodies, which reflect different facets of Jewish musical experience between irony, remembrance and existential depth.

The duo haqolot combines these works into a concentrated song recital that poses a timeless question: How can music remain an expression of human dignity even under the most adverse conditions?

Tickets at 23/18/erm. 8 euros are available in the webshop, at karten@villa-seligmann.de or by calling 0511 844887-200.

The event is being held in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.