HELMUT OEHRING
2025*2026 LUXEMBURG * MONTRÉAL * MARSEILLE * BASEL * 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 Waldsieversdorf
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
3 August 2025 4 p.m. Augustus Bridge / Neustaedter Ufer, Dresden
16 August 2025 4 p.m. Carola Bridge / Saxonian State Chancellery, Dresden
31 August 2025 4 p.m. Albert Bridge / Neustaedter Ufer, Dresden
Bridge (from: Silence / Days) for violin + dancer
κάθαρσις / KATHARSIS III for violin + dancer
SwampForest I + II for for violin + dancer
Florian Mayer + Katja Erfurth
Johann Trollmann
27 December 1907 – 9 February 1943
30 August 2025 5:30 p.m. European Centre of The 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
4 September 2025 Memorail Site Bautzner Straße, Dresden
BACH IN THE CITY & NEVER GRAY
SwampForest I + II for violin + SignMimoChoreography
κάθαρσις / KATHARSIS III for violin + SignMimoChoreography
Florian Mayer / violin + Katja Erfurth / dance
13 + 14 September 2025 5:30 p.m. European Centre of The Arts HELLERAU Festspielhaus, Dresden
... THERE / BEING ... CITY . HSTORY . DANCE Episode III
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 11 h a.m. WUK * Austrian Music Theater Day Vienna
KEYNOTE Lecture
audivisual composition between silence and sound
with excerpts form the musictheatre works
AshenMOON or The Fairy Queen + BEETHOVEN? The redemptive Fault + Wrong + EURYDIKE? vol. 1 + 2
+ BlueForestVillage (far-from-away lying days) + House of Bernarda Alba + LostWater (from: The Space / Musical Sacrifice) and the book + audioplay With different eyes. From child of deaf adults to composer
as well as the audioplay STONEDEAF or Eurydike and the uncontrollable desire to touch the sky
lecture: Helmut Oehring
19 Septembre 2025 9:30 h p.m. WUK * Music Theater Days Vienna
Club Mosaik: nicht ERSTARREN
EYE / TONGUE for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay
not FREEZE IV for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay (WORLD PREMIERE)
not FREEZE V for contrabass clarinet + preproduced audioplay (WORLD PREMIERE)
EURYDIKE? vol. 3 for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay + video (WORLD PREMIERE)
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II Contrapasso 6 – 8 (to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitsch Gunjajew + Erzpriester Andrej Jurjewitsch Tkachev)
version for contrabass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography + preproduced audioplay (WORLD PREMIERE NEW VERSION)
contrabass clarinet + SignMimoPerformance: Teresa Doblinger
conception + composition + keynote + SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring
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
19 October 2025 4 p.m. Society Museum Nuremberg
Reading from Astrid Kreibich's novel Rotstrick
Solo from MEERE for bass clarinet
Matthias Badczong
25 October 2025 Villa Wigman, Dresden
"I don't want tot dance prettily and sweetly" (Gret Palucca)
on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Palucca University for Dance in 2025
DrehMoment (Torque) for a dancer + 8 bass clarinets + electronic audioplay (world premiere)
choreography + dance: Katja Erfurth
composition: Helmut Oehring
Initiated by Dance Archive Leipzig + Palucca University for Dance Dresden + Saxon Academy of Arts
excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
21 November 2025 6 h p.m. rainy days festival Philharmonie Luxemburg
lovemusic: Protest of the Physical – Bodies of Sound, Spaces of Resistence
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Céline Papion
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
https://www.philharmonie.lu/de/programm/2025-26/lovemusic-protest-of-the-physical-000000e9001ba18a
21 Novembre 2025 7:15 p.m. rainy days festival Philharmonie Luxembourg
Unitetd Instruments of Lucilin: In a large, open space
ὀξύμωρον (Oxymoron)
ὀξύς oxys (sharp) – μωρός mōros (blunt)
for two string instruments + voices (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 + Laura Bowler / voc + Helmut Oehring / SignMimoPerformance
James Tenney In a Large Open Space
Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin + Laura Bowler / voc + Helmut Oehring / guitar
https://www.philharmonie.lu/de/programm/2025-26/united-instruments-of-lucilin-000000e9001ba18c
26 November 2025 8 p.m. Gare du Nord Basel
lovemusic: Protest of the Physical – Bodies of Sound, Spaces of Resistence
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Céline Papion
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
https://www.garedunord.ch/de/reihen/3017/protest-of-the-physical
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Gevatter Tod in Begleitung zweier Lamettahengste)
GrafikFotoCollage 2022
29 November 2025 5 p.m. Heymannbaude Kleinhennersdorf
"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
20 January 2025 7 p.m. GMEM National Centre for Musical Creation Marseille
lovemusic: Protest of the Physical – Bodies of Sound, Spaces of Resistence
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Céline Papion
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
Gatsby (fairy scary) I - II from the series of photographies on the opera AshenMOON (aluminium prints 2012) by Stefanie Wördemann
23 January 2026 7:30 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
24 January 2026 7:30 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
25 January 2026 4:00 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
opera using music of Henry Purcell
with texts by William Shakespeare + Adalbert Stifter + Heinrich Heine + Helmut Oehring
commissioned by Staatsoper unter den Linden Berlin
idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
audioconception+production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
NEW PRODUCTION / Cottbus version:
musical direction: Alexander Merzyn
direction: Sebastian Baumgarten
stage: Thilo Reuther
SignMimoPerformance: Kassandra Wedel
accordion + voice: Felix Kroll
guitars + voice: Helmut Oehring
But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the wash-stand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor. Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy’s wing. f that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about ... like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Der große Gatsby
1 February 2025 6 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
12 March 2026 Le Vevier / Musique Nouvelle Montréal
lovemusic: Protest of the Physical – Bodies of sound, spaces of resistence
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V (to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
on Dante Alighieri / Sandro Botticelli
for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + electric guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
idea + composition + choreography: Helmut Oehring
audioplay-production: GOGH s.m.p.
collective lovemusic Strasbourg
bassflute: Emiliano Gavito
bassclarinet: Adam Starkie
violoncello: Céline Papion
e-guitar: Christian Lozano Sedano
26 March 2026 7:30 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
28 March 2026 7:30 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
29 March 2026 7:00 p.m. State Theatre Cottbus
opera using music of Henry Purcell
with texts by William Shakespeare + Adalbert Stifter
+ Heinrich Heine + Helmut Oehring
idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
audioconception+production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
NEW PRODUCTION / Cottbus version:
musical direction: Alexander Merzyn
direction: Sebastian Baumgarten
stage: Thilo Reuther
SignMimoPerformance: Kassandra Wedel
accordion + voice: Felix Kroll
guitars + voice: Helmut Oehring
ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis)
solar / lunar eclipse
overlay concealment erasure
These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Our summer is just winter painted green.
Heinrich Heine Travel Pictures II
Gatsby (fairy scary) III - V from the series of photographies on the opera AshenMOON (aluminium prints 2012) by Stefanie Wördemann
spring 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
edge (to Sylvia Plath) photography (aluminium print 2025) by Stefanie Wördemann
23 June 2026 07:30 p.m. KISSINGEN SUMMER
Kurtheater Kissingen
Desire – A song evening with Dagmar Manzel
The Silence falls song from the music theater AGOTA? The Analphabet (Yesterday/Somewhere)
version for voice + accordion + preproduced audioplays
stuffed emptiness for accordion
Dagmar Manzel + Felix Kroll + Frank Schulte + Arnulf Ballhorn + Ralf Templin + Daniela Braun