Premiere : Wanderer

200 years ago, revolutions were raging in Europe. The people longed for freedom and self-determination. Young artists stood by them not only with their art, but also with their own lives. The Greeks were fighting against Ottoman rule under the sign of the cross when Lord Byron arrived in the lagoon of Messolonghi and died at the age of just 36. His most important work, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", describes his own wanderings. Franz Liszt also wandered and described these "pilgrimage years" in music. Caspar David Friedrich wandered in the mountains between Saxony, Lower Silesia and Bohemia. His paintings depict a similar pilgrimage to that of the musician and poet. In the region around Saxony, Bohemia and Lower Silesia, the Vormärz would soon flare up. CDF took the side of the revolutionaries, like many other Romantics. And another mystic died in Görlitz 400 years ago: Jakob Böhme, whose spiritual writings about Jesus inspired many later Romantics. All of these anniversaries in 2024 inspired Eleni Ioannidou, herself a hiker in the Giant Mountains and an artist, to create a piece of chamber music that connects all of these stories. She uses not only the music and painting of the Romantic period, but also dance and recitation. Will the wanderers find what they are longing for? And what message do they want to convey to today's young Europeans? Concept, dramaturgy: Eleni Ioannidou / Choreography: Edgar Ioannis Avetykian / Musical accompaniment: Simonas Poška / Video: HEGST Film Dresden / Performers: Cornelius Lewenberg, Simonas Poška, Sara Nicastro Admission: from 18.30 Admission: 10€ Advance ticket sales: arsaugusta.org/event-details/wanderer-premiere The project is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Office for Education, Culture and Sport of the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald as part of the Casper David Jubilee 2024.