Afterwards: Documentary “Soundtrack of Arts 1: Louvre – Da Vinci – Will.I.am” – on July 1st from 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON
Vienna (OTS) – The “kulturMontag” presented by Clarissa Stadler on July 1, 2024 at 10:30 p.m. on ORF 2 and on ORF ON visits Tartu, the second largest city in Estonia and European Capital of Culture 2024, accompanies Tanja Maljartschuk, the best-known Ukrainian author in the German-speaking world who lives in Vienna and Bachmann Prize winner, on a trip to the largest Ukrainian book fair in Kiev and presents another episode of the nine-part dialect series “Sog amoi” – this time from Carinthia. The first issue of the three-part documentary series “Soundtracks of Arts” entitled “Louvre – Da Vinci – Will.I.am” then examines the mutual influence of art and music.
The art of survival – Estonia’s Tartu is European Capital of Culture 2024
“Arts of Survival”, i.e. the cultivation of survival skills, is the goal this year in Tartu, because the second largest city in Estonia is – alongside Bad Ischl with the Salzkammergut and Bodø – the European Capital of Culture this year. The old university and Hanseatic city may only be the second largest city in Estonia and is economically overshadowed by the capital Tallinn, but when it comes to culture, the open, lively city with 100,000 inhabitants and its eleven universities, with a population of 100,000, is at least on the same level . Tartu has always been considered the heart and soul of the small Baltic Sea state with only 1.2 million inhabitants in northeastern Europe. Closed to visitors in Soviet times because of the military airport, Tartu is now an attractive city whose special “spirit” is often mentioned in meetings. As in Austria, the label of cultural capital also extends beyond the borders of the city of Tartu: the south of Estonia is also included. In the borderland between Russia and Estonia live the Setos, an ethnic minority that, according to this year’s elected “Queen” Evelin Leima, reawakened in the 1990s. Because: In the Soviet Union people avoided confessing their allegiance to this people. The country’s immediate past is a recurring topic. For example, a three-part show is dedicated to the life of Estonians in Soviet times. 25 years after regaining independence, the new Estonian National Museum was opened, a spectacular building by an international group of architects that was deliberately built on the airfield of the former Soviet military airport. Initially, this decision caused outrage among many Tartu residents – today it no longer upsets anyone. The motto is: you watch your neighbor’s development closely. This is also an art of survival, says Erni Kask, who was there from the application phase for the Capital of Culture.
Journey home – author Tanja Maljarchuk visits Kiev
She is the best-known Ukrainian author in the German-speaking world and has lived in Vienna for many years, where she moved for love, long before the war: Tanja Maljartschuk. In 2018 she was on everyone’s lips because she was awarded the Bachmann Prize, which this year’s edition is taking place in the ORF Landesstudio Carinthia until June 30th. Since the Russian attack on Ukraine, she has been constantly on the move, trying to explain what happened to an audience that still knows little about Ukraine’s past and present. In her essays and columns she repeatedly writes about solidarity and humanism in dark times. For her, the war is “a hole in her existence,” as her fellow Bosnian author Dževad Karahasan once put it. “As a powerless witness, day after day, rocket after rocket, tank after tank, obituary after obituary, it’s almost unbearable.” Many of her friends, including writers, live in Ukraine; her parents are still in the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk. She recently went back home because the largest book fair in Ukraine was taking place in Kiev, despite everything: she was invited to come. Former TV journalist Tanja Maljartschuk went on a journey with a camera team for “kulturMontag”: The resulting report shows, not least, that the hunger for literature and art in times of war is very great.
“Sog amoi” – On the trail of Carinthia’s many dialects
What comes to mind when you think of Carinthia? Lakes, mountains, Carinthian Reindling and Carinthian Kasnudeln? And of course: the Carinthian dialect. But what exactly do you mean when you talk about the Carinthian dialect? The fact is: As far as German is concerned, the Carinthian area is southern Bavarian territory, and at the same time several Slovenian dialects are spoken in this area. It has long been proven by linguistics that the German and Slovenian languages in Carinthia influence each other in several ways. “kulturMontag” asks: one of Austria’s most renowned linguists and Slavic scholars, Gerhard Neweklowsky, the musician Herwig Zamernig, who has been causing a sensation as “Fuzzman” for some time now with, among other things, newly composed Carinthian songs, and the actress Johanna Orsini-Rosenberg , who, among other things, shone in the role of Maria Lassnig’s mother in the film about Maria Lassnig “Sleeping with a Tiger”. The pivotal point of the research is the bilingual community of Ludmannsdorf/Bilčovs, where editor Katja Gasser comes from. She visits the Ogris inn, meets the Slovenian men’s choir there and talks to the author Theresia Köfer, who, among other things, uses the German Carinthian dialect as her literary language.
Dokumentation „Soundtrack of Arts 1: Louvre – Da Vinci – Will.I.am“
The fact that music is inspired by visual art and performance art is very current, although not new. Pop culture music videos in particular have a lot in common with the compositions of so-called “serious” music – hearing and seeing, emotion and expression, feeling and experiencing, color and sound form expressive connections. The music videos by Madonna, Lady Gaga and Will.I.am show famous museums and icons of art history in visually stunning settings. They play with the magical imagery of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat and Edward Hopper, among others: In Edward Hopper’s world-famous picture “Night Hawks”, the Chinese pop singer Jane Zhang goes on a cinematic journey through art history. Stephen Sondheim erects a monument to the painter Georges Seurat on Broadway. Rapper Kendrick Lamar and artist Shantell Martin create a collaborative piece of art. Claude Debussy sets a picture by the painter Jean-Antoine Watteau to music. The band Emerson, Lake and Palmer remembers the painter Wiktor Hartmann with their album “Pictures At An Exhibition”. Beyoncé and Jay-Z rent the Louvre for a video shoot and position themselves and their background dancers in front of famous works such as the Mona Lisa, the Venus de Milo or the Nike of Samothrace.
In the first part of the “Soundtrack of Arts” series, director Axel Fuhrmann shows how the Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, becomes the backdrop for music videos and how the rapper Kendrick Lamar portrays himself as Christ in Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”. Probably the most famous example of fine art in the classical period are the “Pictures at an Exhibition” by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, which became world famous through the British rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer.