Wednesday, 2/26/2025
at 8:00 PM


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SO TENDER WAS THE SPRING!
THE GREAT SIEGFRIED LENZ HOMAGE BY STEFAN GWILDIS

With: Stefan Gwildis (reading and singing) Music: Tobias Neumann (piano), Hagen Kuhr (cello) Dramaturgy: Sonja Valentin

After Theodor Storm and Wolfgang Borchert, Siegfried Lenz is the third great, unforgettable poet of the North to whom Stefan Gwildis dedicates a program of his own.
The premiere of his new program falls exactly on the 10th anniversary of the death of the Hamburg honorary citizen Lenz.
Born in 1926 in the East Prussian town of Lyck and died in 2014 in Hamburg, Lenz is considered one of the most significant writers of post-war and contemporary German literature. His many novels, stories, plays, essays, and radio plays are the result of tireless productivity, imagination, and the desire to bring the past to life. With the Masurian stories "So Tender Was Suleyken," Lenz had his first major public success in 1955, and with "Deutschstunde" (1968), he achieved a milestone in 20th-century German literature. To this day, the story of a police officer who oversees the painting ban of his friend during the National Socialist regime is considered the epitome of a perverted, fatal sense of duty. What fascinates Stefan Gwildis about "Deutschstunde" and why "So Tender Was Suleyken" has much to do with his own family history, he reveals to his audience in this homage.

In addition to his literary favorites, which include many quirky stories about lovable, eccentric characters, there will of course also be music! Together with Tobias Neumann (piano) and Hagen Kuhr (cello), Stefan Gwildis presents his own compositions and sings songs from his repertoire.
As with Storm and Borchert, Stefan Gwildis aims for a very personal approach to Lenz, with whom he shares not only a love for the sea.

"So Tender Was the Spring!" is part of the initiative Hamburg reads Lenz.
In cooperation with the Siegfried Lenz Foundation.

Doors open at 7:00 PM

Event data provided by: Reservix

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