Stuttgart - City celebrates spoken word at the "Spoken Arts Festival"
In its new edition, the "Spoken Arts Festival" in Stuttgart will focus on the period of National Socialism with prominent readers, dancers and musicians. While last year's first Spoken Arts Festival focused on the 1920s with readings, concerts and lectures, the years between 1933 and 1945 will be the focus from December 8 to 13 under the title "The last word has not yet been spoken".
Actors Lars Eidinger, Barbara Auer, Katharina Schüttler, Claudia Michelsen and Robert Stadlober as well as the Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, opera singer Helene Schneidermann and ballet star Friedemann Vogel are among those expected to attend. On the final evening, Holocaust survivors Eva Umlauf, Ernst Grube and Leon Weintraub will read from their memoirs. According to the organizers, the programs were developed especially for the festival and thus have the character of a premiere.
"We are addressing the dark years in Germany under the Nazi dictatorship and their connection to today," said Artistic Director Joachim Lang before the start of the festival. Next year, the festival will focus on the immediate post-war period and the so-called zero hour.
Especially at a time when language is becoming increasingly atrophied and is also being misused for disinformation, it is necessary to dedicate a festival to the most important means of communication, said Lang. "Spoken Arts" can draw attention to the power and possibilities of language, also as an artistic form of expression. "The connection between language and the other arts, especially music and dance, is important to me. You sing and dance when you can no longer express yourself with spoken language. This creates a productive interrelationship that needs to be presented and explored."
Spoken Arts program booklet
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Source: www.stern.de
