Barbara Auer & Olena Kushpler

In the organizer's words:

Across the sea
musical reading

It is places of longing like the sea that inspire all the arts equally. Actress Barbara Auer and pianist Olena Kushpler create a natural symbiosis of poetry and music. For their literary-musical evening "Across the Sea", the protagonists have woven works by the greatest poets and musicians into a dense program.

Lesser-known poets such as the Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanik meet heavyweights such as Charles Baudelaire, Else Lasker-Schüler and Guy de Maupassant, as well as Sylvia Plath, Roger Willemsen, Paul Celan, Rose Ausländer and Erich Fried, and also Joachim Ringelnatz, Marina Zwetajewa, Elisabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, among others.

Works by well-known composers such as Claude Debussy and Eric Satie, but also Philipp Glass, Cyrill Scott and Mel Bonis, as well as those that are more likely to ring a bell for enthusiasts, such as the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu. The theme of the evening itself is as broad as the range of the artistic program: Here, the sea as a source of inspiration sometimes becomes an idyll saturated with wanderlust, sometimes a threatening elemental force. A special kind of sea exploration.

Price information:

St. Pauli Theater ticket hotline: 040 / 4711 0 666, st-pauli-theater.de and at all known advance booking offices