HELMUT OEHRING
2024*2025 PARIS * TAIPEH * CHICAGO * LOS ANGELES * BERLIN * AMSTERDAM * ROTTERDAM * DRESDEN * WEIMAR * FRANKFURT A.M. * STUTTGART * KARLSRUHE * BASEL * METZ * STRASBOURG *NANTES * SZCZEZIN * ZAGREB *
NEW PRODUCTION
AshenMOON or The Fairy Queen
opera using music of Henry Purcell
with texts by William Shakespeare + Adalbert Stifter + Heinrich Heine + Helmut Oehring
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
audioconception+production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
NEW ON CD
A production of
Grammy winner John Schneider +
Grammy nomminé Aron Kallay
MicroFest Records Los Angeles
The silence falls
Song from the music theatre
AGOTA? The Analphabet (yesterday / somewhere)
on texts by Ágota Kristóf
Stacey Fraser soprano
Aron Kallay piano
Brightwork Ensemble
A production of Deutschlandfunk Kultur
+ Rondeau Production
Melencolia I
on the copperfield engraving f the same name
of Albrecht Duerer + poems of Heinrich Heine
oiginal version for oboe / voc
+ prepared piano / voc
Burkhard Glaetzner oboe / voc
Hansjacob Staemmler piano / voc
AKTUAL WORK CYCLES
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)
audiovisual work cycle on Dante Alighieri + Sandro Botticelli
excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V
(to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
original version for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + e-guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
UA 2022 collective lovemusic * Klangwerkstatt Berlin * Arsenal de Metz 2023 Conservatório de Música de Coimbra / Portugal * la musica Strasbourg * Gare du Nord Basel 2024 Le Lieu Unique Nantes
version for trumpet + audioplay+ SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024/25 Daniel Flores, Los Angeles / USA
version for double bass + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024/25 Aleksander Gabryś
version for bass clarinet + violoncello + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024/25 Fie Schouten u.a. * Amsterdam * Rotterdam
version for violin + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
version for violoncello + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
version for violin + violoncello + bass flute + bass clarinet + percussion + prepared piano / keyboard + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II Contrapasso VI – VIII
(to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitch Gunjajew + Archpriest Andrej Jurjewitch Tkachev)
original version for three (contra)bass clarinets + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024 Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson + Helmut Oehring
Weimar Spring Festival for New Music
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) III Contrapasso IX – XIII
(tp: Sergej Coushugetowitsh Shoigu + Andrej Remowitsch Beloussow)
original version for oboe / English horn + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp / CD production 2024 Antje Thierbach
version for flute / bass flute + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions
GraphicPhotoCollage 2022
TRIPTYCHON INFERNALE
Terzins from three actual work cycles
on Sandro Botticelli's Mappa dell'inferno and Dante Alighieri's L'Inferno
for the percussionist Dominic Oelze
Terzin 1
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) IV Contrapasso I – IX
for percussionist / voice + SignMimoChoreography + audioplay + video
Terzin 2
[tʁoɡloˈdyːt] not FREEZE III
for percussionist / voice + SignMimoPerfomer + audioplay
Terzin 3
χώρος / CHOROS III Canti I – IX
for percussionist / voice + chamber/choir
+ SignMimoChoreography + audioplay + video
Nine circles of hell in Sandro Boticelli's Mappa dell'Inferno
not FREEZE
audiovisual work cycle
not FREEZE I (fāId)
original version for electric guitar + keyboard / prepared piano + drumset
wp 2023 Pony Says * ZeitGenuss Festival Karlsruhe * Art Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart
26 January 2025
release debut album (vinyl + digital)
Pony Says
Ghost Notes Records
not FREEZE II
original version for instrumental solist + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024 Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring * Academy of Arts Berlin
Pony Says * Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin + Thilo Ruck
foto copyright: Philip Mallmann
[tʁoɡloˈdyːt] not FREEZE III
version for percussionist / voice + SignMimoPerfomer + audioplay
Dominic Oelze + Helmut Oehring
excerpts of nicht ERSTARREN II Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring 17 July 2024 Academy of Arts Berlin
GOYA I – V
audiovisual work cycle on Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
Three Graphics / ink on paper (2008) by Hagen Klennert on GOYA II Yo lo vi
GOYA I
on Les Desastres de la Guerra by Françisco de Goya
using music of Ludwig van Beethoven
for orchestra
wp 2007 * SWR Symphony Orchestra * conductor: Rupert Huber * Donaueschingen Music Days
GOYA II Yo lo vi
memoratorio on drawings by Françisco de Goya and texts of Hermann Kesten + Fédérico Garçia Lorca using music of Manuel de Falla + Hans Werner Henze
for vocalist / double bassist + boy soprano + electric guitar + Spanish guitar
+ male signsoloist + mixed choir + large orchestra + live electronics
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Woerdemann
audioconception + -produktion: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
commissioned by German Symphonic Orchestra
wp 2008 German Symphony Orchester + Broadcasting Choir Berlin + Matthias Bauer + Jörg Wilkendorf + Daniel Göritz * conductor: Ingo Metzmacher * Philharmonie Berlin
GOYA III Veía la mano, pero como alelado
on Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartet No 14 c sharp minor op. 131
for 18 string instruments
UA 2014 Ensemble Resonanz * Beethovenfest Bonn / Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main / Laeiszhalle Hamburg
GOYA IV
auf Françisco de Goyas späte Zeichnungen und Ludwig van Beethovens späte Streichquartette
for string quartet + SignMimoChoreography
IN PLANNING / wp n.n.
GOYA V
multimedia music drama on a dokufictional dialogue in text+image+sound between Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
for signlanguage soloists + vocalists + dancers + SignMimoChoreography + mixed choir + orchestra / large ensemble + multichannel audio + multichannel video
in dialogue with refuguees
IN PLANNING / WP n.n.
CHANT OF A WAR PIMP graphic / ink on paper (2015) by Hagen Klennert
EYE / TONGUE
audiovisual duo
original version for double bass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2020 Paul Kreitz + Helmut Oerhing * Staatsoper Stuttgart
version für bass flute + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2023 Ursula Weiler * Ensemble Quillo * Rofinpark Eberswalde
premiere France + Taiwan 2024 Mu-Xuan Lin * Pavillon de la Sirène Paris * Players Theatre of the National Taiwan University Taipeh
EURYDIKE?
audiovisual work cycle on Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
EURYDIKE? vol. 1
AudioVideoInstallation + Performance fOr a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice
composition + direction + camera + film editing: Helmut Oehring
dramaturgy + co-director + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
audio production + camera + film editing + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
wp 2019 Kassandra Wedel + Emily Yabe + Mia Carla Oehring * Tonlagen festival HELLERAU Dresden * SPOR festival Århus * Kontraklang festival of the Academy of Arts Berlin
EURYDIKE? vol. 2
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as DanceMusicVideoInstallation
for 3 female dancers + violin soloist + 3 accordion soloists + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography + direction + camera: Helmut Oehring
audio+video production + sound direction + film editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
text book + dramaturgy + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
release FILM 2023 Katja Erfurth + Kassandra Wedel + Mia Carla Oehring + Florian Mayer + Felix Kroll + Silke Lange + Susanne Stock * HELLERAU Dresden in collaboration with male prisoners and choir of prison Dresden
BEETHOVEN? The redemptive Fault
MusicFilmDanceDrama
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as MusicFilmDanceDrama
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + cut: Helmut Oehring
textbook + filmscript + dramaturgy + edition: Stefanie Wördemann
audio+video-produktion + camera + cut: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.
FILM RELEASE 2022 bthvn2020 / WDR3 * Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
ACTUAL CONCERT READING
ConcertReading To see the world with different ears Helmut Oehring + Ensemble Quillo 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers
TO SEE THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT EARS
ConcertReading
with texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography WITH DIFFERENT EYES
and his new AssemblyNovel + Screenplay ALEXander
compositions for solo to sextet
Ensemble Quillo
bass flute: Ursula Weiler
violin: Julia Yoo Soon Gröning
violoncello: Luise Rau
accordion: Felix Kroll
concert guitar: Daniel Göritz
voice + guitar + SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring
κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS III Julia Yoo Soon Gröning + Helmut Oehring 12 October 2024 ConcertReading 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers !
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Warm Summer Sun and other songs
on texts by Marc Twain + Helmut Oehring et.al.
for soprano + violin
wp 2025/26 Stacey Frazer * Los Angeles
Seven Songs
on texts by William Shakespeare + David Foster Wallace + Helmut Oehring
for mezzosoprano + violin + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2025/26 Chemnitz
FEAR (Responsorium)
szenic-oratoric PASSION
using music of Johann Sebastian Bach
for narrator + countertenor + boy soprano + instrumental-vocal soloists
+ female choir (hearing + nonhearing) + SignMimoChoreography + dancers
+ orchestra + iive elektronics
wp nn.n.
WANDERER (EastWestSouthNorth)
on works of Alfred Doeblin + Johannes Theodor Baargeld
and autobiographic documents of the contributors
for double bassist / narrator / performer + instrumental+vocal soloists / quintet + SignMimoChoreography
for Aleksander Gabryś + Ensemble Quillo in an artistic encounter
with Polish musicians + audio+video artists
commissioned by + in collaboration with Pomerania e.V.
wp 2025/26 Szczecin/Poland
Without title (Beetles) 1920
Graphic by Johannes Theodor Baargeld
NEW ON NETFLIX
LULLABY
Johann Feindt + Tamara Trampe director
Johann Feindt + Jule Cramer camera
Stephan Krumbiegel editor
with: Helmut Oehring + Detlef Jablonski
+ Apti Bisultanov a.o.
2010 zero one film a coproduction with ZDF + ARTE
