»Heute Leider Konzert!« mit Liedern und Texten von Georg Kreisler

In the organizer's words:

Growing up as a Jewish child in Vienna in the 1920s, Georg Kreisler fled with his family to the USA in 1938, where he had to "practice Jew instead of piano". After a breakthrough as a musician, entertainer and composer in New York, he returns to his hometown, which is still riddled with anti-Semitic furrows. So Kreisler confronts this new reality - he sings songs with bitter humor and writes socially critical texts in which he takes aim at everyone, but really everyone in society.

Martha Kottwitz uses narrative, poetic and dramatic set pieces from Kreisler's texts and songs to put together a multifaceted musical evening that offers far more than a retelling of his eventful life. With sharp wit, he makes us think about the world we live in. A gentle but not hopeless look into the abyss.

With the kind support of the Patronage Association