“Man is a large pheasant in the world”
(Herta Müller)
Reading with music
Duration about 90 minutes
Read by Renate Fuhrmann (Cologne).
Compositions and music by KontraSax, Christina Fuchs (clarinet, bass clarinet), Romy Herzberg (contrabass)
Patricia Highsmith “The Cry of the Owl”
Reading with music
Duration about 90 minutes
An extract from novel by Patricia Highsmith ‘The Cry of the Owl, read by Renate Fuhrmann (actress, Cologne).
Compositions by the duo ‘KontraSax’ with Christina Fuchs (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet) and Romy Herzberg (contrabass).
suppose a rose is a rose is a rose
This famous literary quotation, that became the symbol for abstraction and structuralism in modernity, stems from Gertrude Stein, born 1874 in Pennsylvania, died 1946 in Paris. She was one of the most colorful personalities of the Paris artist and writer scene at the beginnnig of this century, and in her Salon she welcomed, among others, Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway and Ezra Pound. Gertrude Stein developed a humorous, ironic work of prose, full of stylistic refinement and personality.