Wednesday, 6/18/2025
at 7:30 PM


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Jewish artists on Shellac. Gramophone reading with Jo van Nelsen

In his series "Gramophone Readings," the music cabaret artist Jo van Nelsen lets long-past voices resonate and provides the soundtrack to exciting texts and exhibitions.

This reading was created in 2016 alongside the series "Frankfurt reads a book," which focuses on David Seuthe's novel "Frankfurt forbidden," centering on a Jewish pianist during the Nazi era, as well as the concurrently running exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum of Communication "Jukebox Jewkbox! – A Jewish Century on Shellac and Vinyl."

The singer Richard Tauber, the conductor Leo Blech, the violinist Edith Lorand – just a few of the many Jewish artists who were indispensable in the musical life of the Weimar Republic. Until the Nazis created absurd realities with their cultural policy in 1933, realities that still resonate today.

Jo van Nelsen narrates in this multimedia show about the fascinating biographies of many Jewish artists, reads texts by Stefan Zweig and others, and continuously turns the crank of his red suitcase gramophone... In addition to the mentioned classical stars, artists from the young jazz scene like Sophie Tucker and George Gershwin can also be heard on shellac records.

Photo: Katrin Schander

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