Description
Aus Liebe und luftigem Traum.
Settings of poems by German-Jewish poets
Hilde Domin, Rose Ausländer,Dagmar Nick and Gertrud Kolmar
Watch the music video on Youtube
Instrumentation: soprano and piano
Edition: score
Year: 2010
Duration: 20′
WP: 7th May 2013, 8 p.m.
Christuskirche, Baunsbergstraße 11, Kassel
Aus Liebe und luftigem Traum:
I – Windgeschenke (Hilde Domin)
II – Über dem Hafen von Lindos (Dagmar Nick)
III – Rätsel (Interlude)
IV – Habe (Dagmar Nick)
V – Garten (Gertrud Kolmar)
VI – Chagall (Rose Ausländer)
VII – Die Sinnende (Gertrud Kolmar)
Preface
Together with Hilde Domin and Rose Ausländer, Dagmar Nick (born in 1926), daughter of the composer Edmund Nick and the singer Kaete Jaenicke, is one of the
most influential German poets of the post-1945 generation. Gertrud Kolmar, born in 1894 in Berlin, took German poetry to a new apogee. Her cousin Walter Benjamin was instrumental in the publication of her works. Unlike her contemporaries, Gertrud Kolmar refused to go into exile; she was deported to Auschwitz and died there in 1943. The final song, a setting of her visionary poem Die Sinnende, closes the
song-cycle soberly, almost without piano accompaniment.
