Hannah Arendt & Heinrich Blücher, Otto von Bismarck, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wilhelm Busch, Paul Celan, Albert Einstein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Wolfgang Koeppen, Rosa Luxemburg, Emerenz Meier, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Sophie Scholl, Kurt Tucholsky, Oscar Wilde Johannes Öllinger has selected particularly striking sentences from each of the correspondence and put them together to create unique song lyrics.
You can hear Franz Kafka falling in love with Milena Jesenká, Kurt Tucholsky ranting about Nazi Germany from his Swedish exile, or the young Sophie Scholl discovering her courage to resist. A snarky Hannah Arendt, a loving Bismarck, a grumpy Wilhelm Busch, a stoic Rosa Luxemburg, and many others also have their say. Using only voice and guitar, the renowned musician—most recently awarded the Bavarian Art Prize—gives the complex texts a musical guise that is simple but never banal.
"Songs that have a unique power and poetry." (Neue Musikzeitung) "One wouldn't have believed how this idea took off. A brilliant moment." (Allgäuer Zeitung)
1. See Milena
2. The practice is a thing in itself
3. I love you
4. My last
5. With a gentle smile
6. Radically minded
7. Nudge and sniff
8. Illness
9. Ever Yours
10. Be good
11. You know
12. Weather: cloudy
