Erich Kästner: „Die 13 Monate“

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Erich Kästner: "The 13 Months"

A cycle of poems by Erich Kästner set to music by Edmund Nick

In the early 1950s, Erich Kästner was commissioned by the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung to write a "nature poem" once a month. Over the course of a year, he then covered all twelve months and came up with another one, namely the thirteenth month, which ultimately gave the resulting cycle of poems its title.
As a self-confessed city dweller, Kästner, who was described by Werner Schneyder as an asphalt literate, soon realized that he found it difficult to describe nature from memory. Encyclopaedias such as "Brehms Tierleben" or "Unsere Pflanzenwelt" helped him.
The author blamed the big cities for his lack of memory: "They had chased shrub and tree and meadow out of the walls," said Kästner in the foreword to his cycle of poems "The 13 Months". And: "The seasons take place in the market hall. In the flower stores and on the vegetable carts. And for breakfast as a weather report."
In 1969, Kästner's long-time friend, the composer Edmund Nick, set the poem cycle "The 13 Months" to a chanson cycle, which Anna Haentjens and Sven Selle bring to life with their performance. In addition, the program will be supplemented with further chansons and humorous as well as contemplative recitations about the cycle of the year.

Singing and recitation: Anna Haentjens.
On the piano: Sven Selle.

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