Thursday, 04/24/2025

STUTTGART

7:30 pm

vhs Stuttgart
Robert-Bosch-Saal
Rotebühlplatz 28
70173 Stuttgart

Admission free!

Based on Maxim Znak's prison diary, "Zekamerone," zek [зек – Russian for "convict"] explores texts written by Znak in prison. The texts form a thread connecting the prisoners to freedom, to self-determined communication, to their survival, and to our understanding of their circumstances. In zek #5, Klaus Sebastian Dreher, in the premiere of his "Episodes from Prison," addresses the historical continuity of imprisonment as a subject in art. In Nikola Lutz's musical setting of Znak's "Ururu," the prison becomes tangible as an aural environment.

with

Xia Yuan [percussion]
Mathilde Durafour [percussion]
Klaus Dreher [percussion]
Nikola Lutz [electronisc, saxopone]
Natasha Lopez [poem]

music by

Klaus Sebastian Dreher
Nikola Lutz

cooperating: Stadt Stuttgart Abteilung für Chancengleichheit, vhs Stuttgart

powered by: S-K-A-M e.V., Stadt Stuttgart und Musikfonds

Maxim Znak, “Zekamerone. Stories from Prison
“Translated from the Russian by Henriette Reisner and Volker Weichsel
© of the German edition Suhrkamp Verlag AG, Berlin, 2023