Vegn paradoksn fun tsayt
Poetry matures slowly and is something between prose and song, between prayer and nursery rhyme, between a brief note in the hustle and bustle of everyday life and the creation of useless beauty in the form of words as a protest against this everyday life. Poetry is what remains of whoever and whatever. This is how Marina Frenk felt about Katerina Kuznetsova’s poems when she discovered them.
Katerina Kuznetsova is a Yiddish poet, teacher, and cultural activist in Berlin. Her work, published in Yiddishland, Di goldene pave, and Birobidzhaner shtern, brings new voice and vitality to the contemporary Yiddish literary scene.
The Berlin-based author’s Yiddish poems inspired Marina Frenk to create melodies, which she shared with the two musicians Lisa Hoppe and Paul Brody. Hoppe, also inspired by this, set more of the poet’s poems to music – thus creating a song cycle that oscillates between ballad and wit, contradiction and jazz, with or without hints of klezmer, improvised spoken word performance, and classical song.
Di Shkatulkeles – Paul Brody, Christian Dawid, Marina Frenk, Lisa Hoppe, Daniel Stawinski – embark on a playful, musically recorded journey into the core of Yiddish poetry written in the here and now. Into something that remains or has been forgotten, yet can be remembered and learned, but can definitely be reinvented — vegn paradoksn fun tsayt!
Doors open at 7:30 pm.
This is sound salon @gruenersalon.berlin!
sound salon is supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
