Hannah Baumann: Echoes

In the organizer's words:

Hannah Baumann: artistic direction, stage direction, dramaturgy & text

(Beethovenfest Fellowship)

Wooden Elephant: string quintet

Elīna Viļuma-Helling, Peyee Chen & Helēna Sorokina: vocals

Signing choir Ringing Hands

Susanne Tod: Dramaturgy for German Sign Language and Sign Choir

Söntke Campen: scenography & painting

Vanessa Rust: Costume

"Echoes in Limbo"

Walk-in music theater

Dramaturge and Beethovenfest Fellow Hannah Baumann stages the Kreuzkirche Bonn as a mystical, freely accessible landscape for the duration of a music-theatrical narrative (scenography: Söntke Campen). The starting point is the myth of the nymph Echo, who is punished by the goddess Hera for her garrulousness. Since then, she has only existed in the echo of other people's voices. The audience is invited to ask themselves in the sounding theatrical landscape of the church: How do we move between others? How do we encounter ourselves in them, and what do they see in us?

Different places in the church space tell of a wide variety of emotional states with sound, gestures (language) and texts. The British cross-genre ensemble Wooden Elephant adapts songs by Pink Floyd, Radiohead and SOPHIE for string instruments and vocal ensemble. The sign language choir Klingende Hände from Euskirchen leads a Greek tragedy choir through mythology, introspection and poetry with sign language performances.