Polnisches Institut Berlin – Filiale Leipzig: Fête de la musique

6:30 pm
Silicon and Sinai. Jewish ritual and the digital present | Music by Barbara Gita & Pina Bettina Rücker and lecture by Katrin Steffen

The Jewish, ritually used shofar - electronically processed by Barbara Gita - enters into a musical relationship with singing bowls played by Pina Bettina Rücker. These singing bowls are a by-product of the production of silicon monocrystals. Silicon monocrystals are the basis for today's microelectronics. Computers and cell phones would be inconceivable without the invention of pulling single crystals from the melt, which made the Polish scientist Jan Czochralski (1885-1953) famous. His so-called "Czochralski process" still characterizes microelectronics today in the production of pure, monocrystalline materials. From 1940, the world-renowned Polish chemist worked for the German occupying forces in Warsaw with the approval of the Polish underground. He secretly organized help for the needy in German-occupied Warsaw.

An event organized by the Polish Institute Berlin - Leipzig Branch as part of the Jewish Week in Leipzig

9:30 p.m.
Tate-Mame | A musical journey through Galicia (vocals, accordion and violin)

Karolina Trybała lives and mediates between cultures and travels throughout Europe as a singer and teacher. With a great voice and passion, she has dedicated herself for many years to Jewish music from Galicia, where her ancestors come from. In 2021, her research resulted in the songbook "TATE-MAME" - Yiddish for "parents". On stage, she presents her favorite songs from it: klezmer classics, old tangos, songs from the Jewish theaters in Lviv/Lemberg (Ukraine), Kraków (Poland) and New York (USA), where many Galician artists emigrated.

She interprets well-known and forgotten musical treasures authentically and elegantly in Yiddish and Polish, but also in German, English and Hebrew. Poetically and captivatingly, a bridge is built from the past to the present day - tradition meets joie de vivre.