“Fabrizio De André: IN EIGENSINNIGER RICHTUNG UND GEGEN DEN STROM“, Begegnungen mit den Figuren aus den Liedern von Fabrizio De André: Erzählungen, Musik, Lieder, Interviews

(The event will be held in Italian)

"Fabrizio De André: IN OWN DIRECTION AND AGAINST THE CURRENT", encounters with the characters from Fabrizio De André's songs: stories, music, songs, interviews with Renzo Sabatini, Christoph Gerhard, Fabrizio "Faber" Sanna (guitar and vocals)

Encounters with the characters from Fabrizio De André's songs. Stories, music, songs, interviews
(Performance in Italian only)
With Renzo Sabatini, Christoph Gerhard
Fabrizio "Faber" Sanna (guitar and vocals)
The most important protagonists of the poetry of the famous Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André (1940-1999) are the marginalized. After his death, critics and journalists wrote that with his lyrics he had restored dignity to all the prostitutes, gays, transsexuals, Roma and drug addicts who populate his songs. But how did those affected see it themselves? In the 2000s, Renzo Sabatini conducted very personal interviews with some of them on behalf of an Australian radio station. The interviews resulted in the book: "che non ci sono poteri buoni" ("there is no power that is good"), which is highly appreciated by the songwriter's connoisseurs and followers. On this evening, we will be able to hear the voices of former prostitutes, Roma artists, Palestinian activists, former junkies, street priests and many others, who will all talk about themselves and what their encounter with De André's music has meant to them.

The German-Italian musician Fabrizio "Faber" Sanna will accompany the evening with his interpretations of selected De André songs and his own memories.
Renzo Sabatini
has been dealing with the topics of volunteering, racism, refugees, pacifism and solidarity for decades and has worked extensively in the field of international cooperation. A passionate writer and journalist, he has published short stories and news articles and collaborated with radio stations, newspapers and magazines on three continents.
Christoph Gerhard
is a member of the board of Mondo Aperto and has been interested in Italian songwriting, especially De André, for over 40 years. He studied Italian and German language and literature and worked as a teacher. He has translated more than 20 of De André's songs into German.

Fabrizio "Faber" Sanna
was born in Frankfurt in 1977 and grew up in Olbia, Sardinia. He has had a deep admiration for Fabrizio De André since childhood, and in 2019 he decided to pay tribute to the great Genoese singer-songwriter by launching a project dedicated to reinterpreting his songs. In 2023, he began a collaboration with Emiliano Visconti, musicologist and founder of the Rapsodia Festival, with whom he launched the "History of Italy through songwriting" project. Within this framework, Sanna reinterprets songs by great Italian artists, including Renato Carosone, Domenico Modugno, Luigi Tenco, Paolo Conte, Francesco De Gregori, Pino Daniele, Vasco Rossi and Giorgio Gaber. For several years, Faber has been working on projects about Fabrizio De André together with the author and judge Alessandro Bellardita fabersanna.de

Fabrizio De André (1944 -1999), the 25th anniversary of whose death was celebrated this year, was an Italian songwriter. During his artistic career from the end of the 1950s, De André - known as Faber to his friends - became one of the most popular singers and the most important cantautore in Italy due to the high literary quality of his texts, his musical openness and his masterful interpretation, and his texts are now part of school reading there. (Image: "Fabrizio De André", gouache, 2019 by Oscar Fontanesi from the portrait series "Ritratti per un anno")