Fanny Hensel Mendessohn - composer, pianist and conductor. In memory of a fascinating personality, the Literaturverein cordially invites you to a literary-musical evening. Heidi Greßmann will read, accompanied on the piano by Gustav Steinhoff.
Siblings Fanny and Felix Medelssohn-Bartholdy grow up in 19th century Berlin in a wealthy Jewish family. They are musical prodigies and deeply attached to each other.
But when Fanny turns 14, she is forced to take the path destined for her: becoming a housewife and mother, while her brother is allowed to continue making music. But her music cannot be silenced.
Fanny's unheard-of flair for music is the story of a unique woman who fights for her passion and tries to defy all boundaries with diplomacy, discipline and imagination. Today, Fanny Hensel Mendelssohn is also known and recognized as a composer, pianist and conductor.
