Magdalene Artelt
, actress
Diplomatic string quartet
The Villa Seligmann and the Marktkirche Hannover are jointly commemorating the November pogroms of 1938 with a concert. The program includes string quartets by Zemlinsky and Schulhoff as well as a reading of Christoph Ransmayr’s “The Work of Angels”.
84 years ago, synagogues were burning in Germany. An event that made the increasing disenfranchisement and persecution of Jewish and non-Jewish citizens by the National Socialist regime visible to everyone. Every year, Villa Seligmann commemorates the crimes and injustice of that time with a memorial concert in the Marktkirche.
PROGRAM
Welcome
Rainer Müller-Brandes
, City Superintendent of the Evangelical-Lutheran City Church Association of Hanover.
Eliah Sakakushev-von Bismarck, Managing Director of Villa Seligmann
Speech
Dr. Felix Klein
Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany and the Fight against Anti-Semitism
Music
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942): String Quartet No. 1, op. 4 (1896), performed by the Diplomatic String Quartet
Reading
Christoph Ransmayr
(1954*): “Die Arbeit der Engel” from “Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes”, read by Magdalene Artelt
Reading rights courtesy of S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2012.
Music
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942): Five Pieces for String Quartet (1923)
Free admission
Donations are requested
Admission from one hour before the start of the event
The hygiene regulations of the Marktkirche and the regulations of the state of Lower Saxony and the Hannover Region apply to this event.
The concert is organized in cooperation with the Citykirche department of the Evangelical Lutheran City Church Association and the Marktkirche Hannover.
