»Zwischen Aufruhr und Applaus«

In the organizer's words:

Sounding journey through time from Schiller to Lortzing | Duration: 1 hour

as part of "Lortzing 26"

Leipzig, 1837: The clog dance from "Zar und Zimmermann" premieres at the Altes Theater on Tröndlinring and becomes a mega-hit of the 19th century. The man who wrote it lived around the corner, drank wine in Hainstraße, discussed democracy in back rooms and made the audience laugh every night. Albert Lortzing was a Leipziger.

With the audio walk "Between uproar and applause", we invite you to follow the composer through his city, to the places where he lived, worked and composed, argued and celebrated. Seven stops lead from the Salle de Pologne via Hainstraße and Tröndlinring to Gohlis, to the Schillerhaus.

Lortzing was anything but the harmless Biedermeier composer he was long regarded as. He was a democrat, a librettist and a man of the theater all rolled into one, he was in contact with publishers, revolutionaries and publicists, and wrote more between the lines in his operas than the censors suspected. His Leipzig was a Leipzig on the move.

The meeting point for the audio walk is the Old Town Hall. Playback devices and headphones are provided. After approx. 60 minutes, the audio walk ends at the Schillerhaus in Gohlis.