HELMUT  OEHRING

B E E T H O V E N ?  T H E  R E D E M P T I V E  F A U L T

(... where am I not wounded, cut ?! )

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​DanceMusicFilmRequiem for a deaf dancer / sign soloist / vocalist + instrumental ensemble + video + 8.1channel audio + live elektronics

 

with texts by Helmut Oehring and from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation notebooks and using motifs of his music

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composing commission  by the Beethoven Anniversary Society

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idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography: Helmut Oehring

Textbuch + Dramaturgie: Stefanie Wördemann

Soundkonzeption + produktion: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.

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dedicated to Oliver Sacks

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deaf dancer / sign soloist / vocalist: Kassandra Wedel

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instrumental soloists: Ensemble Musikfabrik

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bass flute: Helen Bledsoe
bass oboe: Peter Veale
contrabass clarinet: Carl Rosman

trumpet (in C): Ales Klancar
horn (in F): Christine Chapman
trombone + bass trombone: Bruce Collings

tuba: Melvyn Poore

percussion: Dirk Rothbrust
prepared piano 1 + keyboard

prepared piano 2  Benjamin Kobler
violin 1: Hannah Weirich
violin 2: Sara Cubarsi
viola: Axel Porath
violoncello: Dirk Wietheger
double bass: Kathryn Schulmeister

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Prologue 

Scene I HEART

Scene II FIRE

Scene III HAMMER

Scene IV  ME

Scene V HANDS

Scene VI FAULT

Scene VII YESTERDAY

Scene VIII YOU

Scene IX BETRAYAL

Scene X BLOOD

Scene XI VIOLATION

Scene XII HOPE

Scene XIII BELOVED / ANGEL

Scene XIV WAR

Scene XV LIE

Scene XVI LAW

Scene XVII NOISE

Scene XVIII BLACK

Scene XIX SHADOW

Epilogue​

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T E X T s o u r c e s
 

The text book is using oTones of Ludwig van Beethoven (in original writing) from:

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Carla Amenda, Wien 1. June 1800
Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Gerhard Wegeler, Wien 29. Juni 1800
Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Gerhard Wegeler, Wien 16. November 1801

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to his brothers Carl and Johann, Heiligenstadt 1802

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to the „Immortal Beloved“, 6. – 7. July (1812?)

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Countess Josephine Deym, Wien 1804
Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Countess  Josephine Deym, Heiligenstadt 20. September 1807

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to An Bettina Brentano, Wien 10. February 1811

Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Carl von Beethoven, Baden 9. June 1825

Ludwig van Beethoven, Conversation Notebooks, 1818 to 1827