Sitting frozen in front of the screen and seeing these horrible images, it was unbearable.” Like Cornelia Metschitzer and Rudi Müllehner, head of the Linz Tribune, we may all be feeling these days. “A salvation”, was the call from her friend Andreas Baumgartner The director of the Linz Theater of the Child had the idea for a benefit evening with “poems and songs against the war” in the grandstand in Linz. “As soon as you can do something, you’re not so helpless. We have never prepared anything so useful,” says Metschitzer.
Words against speechlessness
Within 17 hours she searched for texts and poems that actors and musicians would recite in the grandstand Linz, Landestheater Linz, Theater Phönix, Theater des Kinder and the independent scene. “We can counter our speechlessness with the words of these poets, who have experienced something similar. All their different poems unite a very special power that neither lies, nor punishes, nor kills. A power of the heart and soul, the power of art. I think this evening will be a great hour of inspiration” – with Andreas Baumgartner, Daniela Dett, Gabriele Deutsch, Ingrid Höller, Rudi Müllehner, Simone Neumayr, Thomas Pohl, Günter Rainer, Julia Frisch and Andrea Schnitt, on March 15th and 16th ., each 7.30 p.m., 0699/11 399 844, www.tribuene-linz.at
March 13, Tabor Theatre plays “Pumuckl and the big noise” for everyone from the age of five. “Our thoughts are with our Ukrainian friends, especially the actors of the wonderful theater ‘Voskresenje’ from Lviv,” says the Tabor Theater team, which has personal ties to Ukraine: every two years it takes part in the theater festival “Golden Lion”. in Lviv. Linz, Theater Maestro, 3 p.m., tickets: 0650/7784783 and 0732/77 11 76 11, www.theater-tabor.at
March 18, concert at the Bruckner University: Bruckner University students play for peace Friedrich Gulda’s Concerto for Violoncello and Wind Orchestra, the soloist is Lida Limmer from Stuttgart, who was born in 2003. A world premiere is the Saxophone Concerto No. 1 by the Czech master’s student Stepán Flagar, who is also a soloist. Donations benefit university members and their families affected by the war in Ukraine. Large hall, 7 p.m., registration: events@bruckneruni.at or 0732/70 1000-280, there is also a live stream: www.bruckneruni.at
Source: Nachrichten
