Music-lyric performance with the Theater Phoebus
The baroque poetess Sibylla Schwarz (1621-1638) was only 17 years old and left behind a brilliant body of work. She lived during the Thirty Years' War in the town of Greifswald and her rural haunt of Fretow. She began writing poetry at the age of about ten. Friendship, love, war and death are the central themes of her work. Unusual for the time and characteristic of her poetry are the very personal tone and the female perspective. Her eloquent writings read as social criticism and open up poetic spaces full of mythological figures.
Sibylla Schwarz has been called "The Pomeranian Sappho" and "A wonder of her time". Her work was published in a separate edition in the 17th century before it fell into oblivion. Josefine Schönbrodt and Jan Maria Meissner present this poignant baroque poetry with timeless validity in a performance that brings the mystery of Sibylla back to life.
