Alexandra Lehmler invites Apollonio Maiello & Jörg Brinkmann

In the organizer's words:

Politics, at least, provides ample opportunity for comparisons with the crisis years of the Weimar Republic. What parallels the 1920s and the 2020s might still have is an interesting mind game. Or a musical one! Mannheim saxophonist Alexandra Lehmler, Italian-German pianist Apollonio Maiello and Kempen-born cellist Jörg Brinkmann use advanced sound textures and texts by Erich Kästner to beam themselves back to the exciting and turbulent Golden Twenties and learn something about the present. Kästner's poems from "Herz auf Taille" from 1928, clear-sighted, sharp and full of wit, are translated into sound language, "into musical images", dreaming, dancing and radiant, as the musicians themselves describe it. Since time travel is not yet possible in reality, but is conceivable and enlightening in art, you should definitely set off into the past with the trio - and into the spaces in between and the realms of possibility.