RILKES PROSA: DIE AUFZEICHNUNGEN DES MALTE LAURIDS BRIGGE

In the organizer's words:

A young Dane in Paris: in poetic observations, he reflects on the shock of the dissolution of individuality in the masses of the big city, from which he seeks refuge in childhood memories. The diary-like fragments "The Notes of Malte Laurids Brigge", published in 1910, are not only one of the key texts of modernism, but also one of its most beautiful. They show that Rilke's prose is just as fascinating as his poetry. Rainer Iwersen and Uli Beckerhoff on the trumpet take the audience into the sensual directness of the work - almost uncanny in its simultaneous, cool precision: "I am learning to see. ... I have an inside that I didn't know about".

Rainer Iwersen, actor, director and translator, co-founded the bremer shakespeare company in 1984. He has mainly translated Shakespeare plays for S. Fischer Theaterverlag. He has worked as a freelance director and reciter/speaker since 1995. His preference for the combination of text and music has brought him together with Monika Moldenhauer, Mellow Melange, Hille Perl/Lee Santana, the Nomos Quartet, Midori Seiler/Kristian Bezuidenhout, Hamburger Ratsmusik and Sinfonia Concertante, among others. He has a long-standing artistic collaboration with Uli Beckerhoff: the two have been performing together for 30 years with a variety of programs.

Uli Beckerhoff is one of the best-known European trumpet players of his generation. The list of international musicians with whom he has worked reads like a "Who's Who" of the European and international jazz scene: concert tours have taken him to South America and Africa, among other places. In Europe, he has performed regularly in almost all countries and major concert halls as well as at the most renowned festivals. His compositional activities include music for film, radio plays and theater, including symphony orchestras, radio big bands and small ensembles. The RoRoRo Jazzlexikon describes him as a musician who "has conquered a top position in German and European jazz with a very distinctive, dynamically finely differentiated expression, whose appeal is described by the critic Joachim Ernst Behrendt as a combination of typical sensitivity with great intensity and power."
Uli Beckerhoff was Professor of Jazz at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen for 25 years and Artistic Director of Jazzahead in Bremen for 18 years.