Ach, Du Lieber Augustin!

In the organizer's words:

Songs from the end to the beginning - concert for adults

By and with Oliver Augst (vocals), Future Jazz RLP prizewinner 2024 Erwin Ditzner (drums) and Fred Marty (bass)

"Oh, dear Augustin!" - what comes across as a lively children's song is actually a very old folk song with a bitter and legendary background. It tells of the Black Plague, which raged in Vienna in 1679, and how Augustin managed to escape "from the plague hole safe and sound": The music of his bagpipes had brought him back to life. In addition to such authentic folk songs, the song cycle contains an illustrious mixture of children's songs which, in addition to their catchiness, popularity and familiarity, tell of happy new beginnings after difficult times and - between the lines - give hope. In addition, there are various wordplay classics and some songs by Hugo Ball: as a Dadaist, Ball performed sound poems, poems without words, thus destroying semantics, i.e. the meaning of language. Why? After the First World War, with its insane horrors and countless deaths, he could no longer write poems with a polluted language that had been misused by war propaganda. So all he could do was start again: from the end to the beginning.

For this project, Oliver Augst brings together two of his fellow musicians for the first time: Erwin Ditzner (Future Jazz RLP Prize Winner 2024) on drums, with whom he recorded the soundtrack for the legendary audio tour through Ludwigshafen "The Ugliest City" in 2021, as well as his longtime Parisian colleague, double bassist Fred Marty.

Price information:

VVK: 12 € (plus fees) / B.O.: 18 €