„Quelle des Lebens“ - die Kraft jüdischer Frauen

In the organizer's words:

"Sources of Life" is dedicated to the artistic expressiveness of Jewish women whose works were created in times of political persecution, existential threats and social upheaval. The focus is on piano works by the Dutch composer Rosy Wertheim (1888-1948). She lived in Amsterdam, Paris, Vienna and New York and was one of the first Dutch female composers to achieve international success. During the Nazi occupation, she hid herself and helped others to survive. Her compositions are juxtaposed with poems by three Jewish poets: Gertrud Kolmar, Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, Tamar Radzyner. Kolmar and Meerbaum-Eisinger were murdered in the Shoah, Radzyner survived several concentration camps. Their texts capture the emotional depth and poetic power that can also be felt in Wertheim's music. In this program, performer Sandra Kreisler and pianist Naoko Christ-Kato trace the tender and at the same time resistant life force.