Memento Malum
The Todesfuge by Paul Celan and its setting by Paul-Heinz Dittrich | Auditiv Vokal
At the age of 68, composer Paul-Heinz Dittrich, who was born in 1930 in the Erzgebirge region of Germany, studied with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny in the late 1950s, and later taught and worked in Berlin, at the Sorbonne and at IRCAM, completed a work of extraordinary complexity.
Shortly after Dittrich’s death, the Todesfuge for 32 voices finally receives its world premiere in this concert. The occasion for this premiere is another double anniversary, which had to be cancelled last year due to the pandemic and is now being made up for: Paul Celan’s 100th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his death. His famous Todesfuge is understood as part of European memory. And Dittrich’s œuvre is strongly related to literature: In particular, the poetry of Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan repeatedly became the basis of his works.
With a poem recitation by Ahmad Mesgarha (actor Staatsschauspiel Dresden)
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The broadcast on Deutschlandfunk is expected to take place on 03.10.2021 21:05 – 23:00.
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Paul-Heinz Dittrich (1930 – 2020)
MEMENTO MORI. Todesfuge after Paul Celan
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The text is an original contribution by Jens Schubbe on the occasion of the premiere of Todesfuge by Paul-Heinz Dittrich.
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