This Wednesday, Volker Braun is 86 years old.
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It sounds Bach’s “Prelude Es major”: powerful the organ uses. And Volker Braun also has a powerful effect on me this Sunday evening, expressively formulating and relaxing. No early birthday celebration – this Wednesday he will be 86 – but a special experience for at least 150 present in the Luisenkirche Charlottenburg. Many stood according to his books and were signed.
The famous East German poet in the artistic dialogue with the organist Jack Day, born in England: Church music met texts that have the contradiction between desire and reality. In this respect, Volker Braun’s letter was always directed against the limited power of power. And all the more today, since it shake and frighten him “confused” and “devastation” as it says in the poem “Responsibility”: “How rich we have become and how worrying”.
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“I am still: my country goes to the west./ war the hut peace the palaces./ I myself put the step on him …” Of course, Braun’s lasting poem “ownership” should not be missing. “How did the sea of peace have deteriorated,” he writes in “Rügen for the government”, where the Chancellor contacts “with his banks”. We know that everything that can be complained about and would be to be changed. But the poet gets to the point of his way of thinking and creates a counter-reality in which we can at least throw our feelings of fainting from us for a time and get certainty. Can draw strength, maybe even comfort.
“Yes, my longing goes far” – the motto of the evening comes from the poem “Determination”, which Volker Braun once in the middle and then once again performed with organ accompaniment. The lyrical ego lives with his dream of a better world and yet has to cope with the found: “And as much as I can raise/ pull a load down/ sewn into my tissue/ she has found its place. Longs rubs on the earth. Curator Thomas Wohlfahrt found a good place for this.
“Organ & Lyric” continues with Kathrin Schmidt (1.6.), Norbert Lange (July 6th), Alexandru Bulucz (7.9.), Orsolya Kalász (5.10.), Monika Rinck (2.11.) And Andreas Altmann (7.12.).
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