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Eine Schubertiade
Die Fackel von Karl Kraus und Lieder von Franz Schubert, mit Georg Nigl und Nicholas Ofczarek NEST - Wientickets available
Eine Schubertiade NEST - Wien Sat 28.Jun 2025 19:00 replace me !Concert for ages 16 and up
A reading and song program in which two great voices meet who took part in the political dialogue of their time in very different ways: Franz Schubert and Karl Kraus.
The Viennese Biedermeier period is often described as a blessed age. The extent to which Franz Schubert took part in political discourse can no longer be fully determined today. It is proven that the initially private performances of Schubert's works, known as the Schubertiads, were also intended to promote political and philosophical exchange. In view of a rigid police state and strict censorship, the question arises as to whether romantic wandering is just an escape from a supposedly lost love or perhaps a utopia of a better world. The situation with Karl Kraus is completely opposite: with the publication of "Die Fackel", he succeeded in becoming an authority for free speech and satirical discussion of the social and political circumstances of his time in Austria. His public readings filled concert halls and were an important part of the extra-parliamentary discourse between 1899 and 1936. Over several seasons
In the Schubertiads, these two Austrian grandmasters are compared and the audience is invited to go on a journey of discovery together.
(Source: nest.at)
