Dessau-Roßlau (dpa/sa) – The 31st Kurt Weill Festival Dessau has the motto “In times of upheaval”. According to the organizers, almost 50 concerts and other events at various locations are on the program from the start of this Friday until March 12th. Chanson is included as well as jazz and classical music. On March 4th, Klaus Maria Brandauer will read texts by Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Thomas Mann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Heinrich Hein under the title “Faust – A bound Prometheus”. He will be accompanied on the piano by Sebastian Kanauer, the artist-in-residence 2023, as it was called.
The four pianists Sebastian Knauer, Martin Tingvall, Joja Wendt and Axel Zwingenberger will kick off on Friday in the Anhaltisches Theater. According to the information, all four get their own area and will always come together and form pairs at the piano. Classical music is played as well as boogie-woogie and jazz.
The composer Weill (“The Threepenny Opera”) was born in Dessau in 1900 as the son of a Jewish cantor. When the Nazis came to power, he moved to the USA via Berlin and Paris. He became a star on Broadway with his music. Weill died in New York in 1950. The festival was launched in his hometown after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
