About the production
Start
7 p.m.
End
8:30 p.m.
The Lausitz Festival contributes to this year's programme of the International Messiaen Days Görlitz-Zgorzelec (25–27 April 2025) with an evening entitled »Poetische Federlese«. Based on the composer Olivier Messiaen's pronounced love of birds and their polyphonic song between heaven and earth, »Poetische Federlese« relates Messiaen's piano piece »Catalogue d'oiseaux« to poetry about birds, freedom and captivity from several centuries.
Actress Martina Gedeck will recite the poems and French pianist Lorenzo Soulès will play excerpts from the »Catalogue d'oiseaux«. The realisation of this Lausitz Festival production lies in the hands of Yaron David Müller-Zach.
Thus, the event also celebrates the tenth anniversary of the European Centre for Remembrance, Education and Culture »Meetingpoint Memory Messiaen«.
The evening will take place on Saturday 26 April 2025 at the Rabryka socio-cultural youth centre in Görlitz. It starts at 7 pm.
Hope is the thing with feathers (254)
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
Martina Gedeck
Born in Munich and raised in Landshut and Berlin, Martina Gedeck completed her acting training at the Max Reinhard Seminar at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has performed at various German theatres, including the Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Theater am Turm in Frankfurt am Main and the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Parallel to her theatre engagements, she began working for film and television.
Her impressive film oeuvre includes a wide variety of works such as »Die Wand« (director: Julian Pölsler), »Bella Martha« (German Film Award for Best Actress, German Film Critics' Award), »Elementarteilchen« (director: Oskar Roehler), »Das Leben der Anderen« (2007 Oscar for Best Non-English Language Film, director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) and »Der Baader Meinhof Komplex« (director: Uli Edel). (directed by Uli Edel). Martina Gedeck has also appeared in numerous international productions, for example alongside Jeremy Irons, Bruno Ganz and Charlotte Rampling in »Night Train to Lisbon« by Bille August or Robert de Niro's »The Good Shephard« alongside Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie and in »Behind the Door« together with Helen Mirren (director: Istvan Szabo).
Martina Gedeck is a member of the European Film Academy, the German Film Academy
Academy of Performing Arts and a recipient of the Bavarian Order of Merit and the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Lorenzo Soulès
In April 2022, Lorenzo Soulès won 1st prize in the Concours international de piano d'Orléans. He was also awarded the Prix des Étudiants du Conservatoire d'Orléans, the Audience Prize and the Edison Denisov Prize. This success enabled him to record a second solo CD with works by Debussy, Messiaen, Manouryn Murail and Benjamin, which received glowing reviews in France.
Ten years earlier, Lorenzo Soulès' international career began when, at the age of 20, he won all available prizes at the Concours International de Genève (1st Prize, Audience Prize, Special Prize of the Young Audience, Air France-KLM Special Prize and the Coup de Coeur Prize of the Swiss watchmaker Breguet). This makes him one of the most successful prizewinners in the long history of this prestigious competition. The Coup de Coeur Prize enabled him to record his debut CD with works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Scriabin, which received glowing reviews in France. In 2023, he received the German Record Critics' Award for his participation in the CD »Eonta« with works by Iannis Xenakis.
Invitations to major festivals and important concert series were not long in coming. Lorenzo Soulès Pianist In April 2022, Lorenzo Soulès won 1st prize in the Concours international de piano d'Orléans. He was also awarded the Prix des Étudiants du Conservatoire d'Orléans, the Audience Prize and the Edison Denisov Prize. This success enabled him to record a second solo CD with works by Debussy, Messiaen, Manouryn Murail and Benjamin, which received glowing reviews in France. Lorenzo Soulès is a regular guest at the Festival Messiaen au Pays de la Meije, the Festival du Périgord Noir, the Kurtág Festival in the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam and the Aldeburgh Music Festival. He has also performed at the Tonhalle Zurich, the Victoria Hall in Geneva, the Royal Festival Hall in London and on Radio France. He has performed Albéniz's Iberia cycle at the Ruhr Piano Festival and has also been involved in the festival's education programme for more than ten years, performing regularly at its presentations.
Further engagements include Bartók's 1st Piano Concerto with the Bremen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Weilburg Castle Festival with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the SWR series »International Pianists in Mainz«, the Westphalian Music Festival and a Messiaen project at the Ruhr Piano Festival.
Lorenzo Soulès was born in Lyon and began playing the piano at the age of three. After graduating from the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris C.N.R. at the age of 13 with the 1er Prix, he continued his studies with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, where he passed his concert exam with honours. From 2006 to 2009, he also took lessons with the Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha in Barcelona in order to rehearse the entire Iberia cycle with her.
Yaron David Müller-Zach
Director Yaron David Müller-Zach studied in Vienna and has worked at opera houses, theatres and festivals in Salzburg, Vienna, Berlin and Bern, among others. In particular, his multiple collaborations with Stefan Herheim and Robert Wilson have left their mark on him artistically.
His own productions include Richard Wagner's »Tannhäuser feat. Dakh Daughters« at the Peterskirche in Nuremberg, Saverio Mercadante's »Amleto«, Oscar Straus’ operetta »Der Pralinésoldat« and Louis Niedermeyer's bel canto »Marie Stuart« at the Stok Theatre in Zurich as well as guest performances in Nyon (Switzerland) and Montélimar (France); the world premieres of Peter Androsch's »Eine Bieroper« and »Ein Bericht an eine Akademie« at the Theater an der Rott, Eggenfelden (nominated in the category »Outstanding directorial contribution to the current development of opera« in »Die Deutsche Bühne«, 2017/18), the opera »Stallerhof« by Gerd Kühr and Franz Xaver Kroetz at the Hof Theatre and Jura Soyfer's »Weltuntergang« at the Theater Phönix in Linz. In 2022, he staged the musical theatre evening »Les Maudits« with texts by Gertrude Stein and Klangforum Wien at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Görlitz as part of the Lausitz Festival, and in 2023, he wrote and designed »Die Welt von Gestern: Erinnerungen eines Europäers« at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater Zittau, a highlight of the festival that combined acting, reading and singing in a hauntingly contemporary way based on Stefan Zweig. In 2024, he also directed »Recital for Cathy« by Luciano Berio at the Cottbus State Theatre as part of the Lausitz Festival.
Artists
Recitation Martina Gedeck
Piano Lorenzo Soulès
Scenic installation Yaron David Müller-Zach
Location
Location Rabryka, Werk 1, Görlitz
Address Conrad-Schiedt-Straße 23, 02826 Görlitz
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