HELMUT  OEHRING

H E A R  T H E  W O R L D  W I T H  O T H E R  E Y E S 

 

ConcertLecture

with autobiographic texts + audiovisual compositions

using music of Henry Purcell

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 commissioned by Staatsoper Berlin

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duration: ca. 70 minutes

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world premiere: SEASON 2026 / 27 Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin / Apollo Saal

Helmut Oehring + members of Staatskapelle Berlin + guests

 

W H A T  H A P P E N S ,  I F   H A N D S   S P E A K   A N D  S I L E N C E  B E C O M E S  M U S I C  ?

 

A ConcertLecture about the magic of music and the poetry of signlanguage – the oldest langage of mankind.

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A story about memory and identity, flight and freedom, loss and resistance.

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About a life, that is too crazy for fiction:

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the life of my big brother Alexander – the wolrd's only deaf bank robber, multiple republic refugee, petty criminal and megalomaniac leader of a revolt

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He died after his prisoner's free purchase by the FRG at a crossing in Berlin-Neukölln.

The world remained the same. Only his story had changed.

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born deaf

never remained mute

silence as language

music as resistance