Brücken bauen - Menschen verbinden | Konzertlesung

Building bridges - connecting people | Concert reading with Aeham Ahmad (pianist from the ruins) and Andreas Lukas (author), a musical-literary journey.

The message "Music for hope" accompanies the musician Aeham Ahmad in his performances. It brings together destinies and people. This is also the idea of the concert reading, which offers a form of encounter with and within music and words, in which the audience is taken along. Stories are told with music and words.

In the new book "TAXI DAMASKUS" by Aeham Ahmad, which he wrote together with the author Andreas Lukas, the people in their difficult everyday life in Syria are given a voice. Just as the musician and composer meets the audience as a human being among human beings during his performances, the reader experiences the cab driver Ahmed with his stories from person to person. He devotes himself entirely to the stories of his passengers, whom he transports in his cab. Sometimes he muses to himself about the situation in Syria, his own life as a cab driver and the difficult business. More often, he worries whether he will be able to feed his family tomorrow with his work.

Fragility, longing, exuberance, desire for freedom, sadness, joy - this is bundled in piano notes and words! A connection between different societies and cultures is established. In this way, the authors also want to make a plea for an open and non-judgmental encounter between people.

Aeham Ahmad is a classically trained pianist. He describes his style himself as "Modern Classic Jazz Mix" or "World Music". Playing the piano is something like "home" for Aeham Ahmad. The Palestinian-Syrian musician from Yarmouk/Damascus has received the Beethoven Prize for Human Rights. He became known as the "pianist from the ruins" beyond the borders of Germany and Europe. When he pushed his piano into the ruins of the streets in Yarmouk to play against hunger, war, destruction and exclusion, he was carried by the idea of hope for the people. "Suffering and hope are often close together," he explains. Since fleeing in 2015, he has been living in Germany, now with his family. At his numerous concerts, he always delights the audience with the intensity of his songs and the virtuosity of his piano playing.

Dr. Andreas Lukas, who grew up in Saarland, holds a doctorate in political science. He is an author, freelance journalist, member and juror of the literary "Gruppe 48". His second novel "Die ungleichen Gleichen" (The Unequal Equals), the encounter of two young people, she raised in the countryside, he a refugee, brought him together with the musician from Damascus. This resulted in the joint book TAXI DAMASKUS, which was also published in an Italian edition. In December 2019, Andreas Lukas was nominated for the radio special prize for the Berlin literature prize "Wortrandale", reached the "Best of ..." at "Literatur zwischen den Jahren" 21/22 of radio889fmKultur and won the audience award at the Hildesheim literature competition 2022.

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Line-Up:

Aeham Ahmad (pianist)

Andreas Lukas (Author)

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Admission free

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.de/e/brucken-bauen-menschen-verbinden-konzertlesung-tickets-744066160917

Admission to JazzHall is via the main entrance of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Milchstraße (opposite house number 11) - not via Harvestehuder Weg.

Organizer of the evening (for questions about tickets or program please contact directly): HfMT (veranstaltungen@hfmt-hamburg.de)