HELMUT OEHRING
2025*2026 LUXEMBURG * WIEN * BERLIN * AMSTERDAM * ROTTERDAM * DRESDEN * COTTBUS 2024*2025 PARIS * TAIPEH * CHICAGO * LOS ANGELES * FRANKFURT A.M. * WEIMAR * STUTTGART * KARLSRUHE * BASEL * METZ * STRASBOURG * NANTES * SZCZEZIN * ZAGREB *
18 January 2025 10 p.m. Ultraschall Festival Radialsystem V Berlin
Deutschlandfunk Kultur LIVE
(fāld) not FREEZE
for e-guitar + keyboard + e-drumset
Pony Says * Thilo Ruck + Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin
Pony Says * Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin + Thilo Ruck
photo copyright: Philip Mallmann
29 January 2025 8:30 pm 30 Years hmt Universty of Music and Theater Rostock, Chamber Music Hall
"In high wood" Oboissimo nuovo
PHILIPP for oboe
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) III Contrapasso IX – XIII
(to: Sergej Koushougetowitsch Shoigu + Andrej Remowitsch Beloussow)
for oboe + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography / visusal language
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
with students of hmt Rostock
rehearsal direction: Antje Thierbach
9 February 2025 3 p.m. Bad Muskau
WANDELN dance theater for small and big children
with music by Johann Sebastian Bach + Florian Mayer + Helmut Oehring
WANDELN for female dancer + violin
composition: Helmut Oehring
choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
violin: Florian Mayer
18 February 2025 08:30 h Unheard Music BKA Theater Berlin
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II
Contrapasso VI – VIII (to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitsch Gunjajew + Archpriest Andrej Jurjewitsch Tkachev)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for 3 bass clarinets + SignMimoChoreography + audioplay
with: Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson + Helmut Oehring
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Gevatter Tod in Begleitung zweier Lamettahengste)
GrafikFotoCollage 2022
23 February 2024 20:03 h radio3 by rbb radio3 concert
recording of the concert from 18 January 2024 at Ultraschall Festival in Radialsystem V Berlin
(fāld) not FREEZE
for e-guitar + keyboard + e-drumset
Pony Says: Thilo Ruck + Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin
https://www.radiodrei.de/programm/sendungen/250223/radio3_konzert_2000.html
27 March 2025 8. p.m. Societaetstheater Dresden
"But I won't stop as long as I can crawl"
loosely based on Maxi Wander's Good morning, beautiful!
FRAGILE I – VII for ensemble / preproduced electronics (WORLD PREMIERE)
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
composition + artistic advice: Helmut Oehring
29 March 2025 8:30 p.m. State Operetta at Kraftwerk Mitte Dresden
DRESDANCE - dance gala
Fluch T raum for dancer + preproduced audioplays
composition + SignMimoChoreography: Helmut Oehring
choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
24 + 25 April 2025 6 p.m. SocietaetstheaterDresden
... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HSTORY . DANCE Episode II
SwampForest I + II for SignMimoChoreography + alto voice + violin
composition + artistic advice: Helmut Oehring
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
alto voice: Julia Böhme
violin: Florian Mayer
John Heartfield
Waldsieversdorf approx. 1960s
(photo: unknown / AdK Berlin JHA)
29 June 2025 3 pm John Heartfield House Wladsieversdorf
Heartfield yesterday? Heartfield today?
lecture, concert, dance, performance
THE LAKE (Johnny) for narrator + 6 trumpets + 3 guitars + preproduced audioplay (WORLD PREMIERE)
Manos Tsangaris + Katja Erfurth + Michael Krejsa + Helmut Oehring et al.
An event of the Academy of Arts Berlin in cooperation with the John Heartfield Freundeskreis
12 July 2025 7:30 p.m. XXXII. Randfestspiele 2nd music biennial Zepernick
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II
Contrapasso VI – VIII (to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitsch Gunjajew + Archpriest Andrej Jurjewitsch Tkachev)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for 3 bass clarinets + SignMimoChoreography + audioplay
with: Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson + Helmut Oehring
Johann Trollmann
27 December 1907 – 9 February 1943
30 August 2025 European Centre of Arts HELLERAU, Festspielhaus Dresden
... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HSTORY . DANCE Episode III
WORLD PREMIERE
FlourFACE Reqiem for the Sinto boxer Johann Rukeli Trollmann
for alto voice + violin + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
dedicated to Johann Trollmann
1933 for one week German light heavyweight box champion
1943 murdered in the Wittenberge satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp
composition + artistic advice: Helmut Oehring
artitic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
alto voice: Julia Böhme
violin: Florian Mayer
18 Septembre 2025 Music Theater Days Wien
KEYNOTE Lecture
19 Septembre 2025 CLUB MOSAIK Music Theater Days Wien
PHILIPP for contrabass clarinet + preproduced audioplay
AUGE / ZUNGE for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
nicht ERSTARREN IV for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay (WORLD PREMIERE)
EURYDIKE? vol. 3 for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + video (WORLD PREMIERE)
contrabassclarinet: Teresa Doblinger
conception + composition + keynote + SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring
Aperture Duo * Adrianne Pope + Linnea Powell
autumn 2025 Los Angeles
WOLRD PREMIERE
edge dramma per musica
for violin / voc + viola / voc + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + video ad libitum
commissioned by Aperture Duo
Aperture Duo * Adrianne Pope + Linnea Powell
5 Oktober 2025 8. p.m. Societaetstheater Dresden
"But I won't stop as long as I can crawl"
loosely based on Maxi Wander's Good morning, beautiful!
FRAGILE I – VII for ensemble / preproduced electronics
artistic direction + choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
composition + artistic advice: Helmut Oehring
21 Novembre 2025 7:15 p.m. rainy days festival, Philharmonie Luxembourg
ὀξύμωρον (Oxymoron)
ὀξύς oxys (sharp / sensible) – μωρός mōros (dull / dump)
for violin / voc + viola / voc (WORLD PREMIERE)
𐀔𐀳𐀩 (ma-te-re / mā́tēr)
for contrabass clarinet + violin + viola + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + children's piano ad. lib. (WORLD PREMIERE)
Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin + Lauta Bowler + Helmut Oehring
https://www.philharmonie.lu/en/events-tickets/festivals/the-rainy-days-festival
24 + 25 January 2026 State Theatre Cottbus
NEW PRODUCTION / WORLD PREMIERE Cottbus Version
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.
direction: Sebastian Baumgarten
stage: Thilo Reuther
musical direction: Alexander Merzyn
26 + 28 + 29 March 2026 State Theatre Cottbus
NEW PRODUCTION / WORLD PREMIERE Cottbus Version
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.
direction: Sebastian Baumgarten
stage: Thilo Reuther
musical direction: Alexander Merzyn