Accordionist

Even in his youth, the narrow-chested, bespectacled high school student Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht loved the ballad singers, eccentric clowns, fairground pimps, and shooting gallery showmen who sold the people inexpensive but by no means cheap entertainment. At the Plärrer - the Augsburg bird shooting - he appeared with a clique of like-minded people, plucked an out-of-tune guitar and sang ballads he had set to music himself in a croaking voice. His idols could not have been more different: the pathetic Schiller on his right, and on his left, Bavaria's great comedian Karl Valentin. "My love of clarity comes from my unclear way of thinking," he remarked coquettishly, although Brecht found his topic earlier than many of his contemporaries: social misery. What makes people human, why are they enslaved, and why do they treat their fellow human beings so shabbily? In his dramas he made heroes of characters who rebelled, often failed in their tasks, but remained steadfast: Schweyk, Puntila, Courage, Galileo, Johanna. Despite all his justified anger at injustice and oppression, he never lost sight of the beauty of life. After all, what do people live for? For the extras. Seven clowns and a handful of musicians throw their hats into the ring of the Circus Mundi and make Brecht's songs and poems, his life and the intolerable conditions dance.

Hoppeldoppel Wopps Laus

Theater Nordhausen

Music theater with the song cycle by Franz Schubert and Wilhelm Müller / Version for choir, baritone and two accordions by Gregor Meyer / With texts by Lena Reissner
I came as a stranger, and I leave as a stranger. These words not only open what is perhaps the most famous song cycle in music history, they hit the nail on the head when it comes to the Romantic attitude to life. Motifs such as hiking, loneliness, love's exuberance and heartache, inner restlessness, even the German forest: all of this was very well received after its publication in a country that was searching for its own identity.

Uwe Steger

Accordionist

Events

Upcoming events

1 - 9 Mar, 2025

The Winter Journey · Volkstheater Rostock

Past events

Oct 4 - Nov 10, 2024

Hoppeldoppel Wopps Laus · Theater Nordhausen

Future and recently performed repertoire

Akkordeon in The Winter Journey by Schubert

Volkstheater Rostock

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