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

Sunday, March 30th

STUTTGART

5 pm

Berger Kirche Stuttgart
Klotzstrasse 21

Benefit concert
Call for donations in aid of political prisoners in Belarus
Politzek.Me and FreeBelarusPrisoners

with

Viktoriia Vitrenko - piano, soprano

Young Stage

Zhanna Schimann (10 years) - piano
Yanhua Simon Liu (10 years) - violin
Marlena Claudi (10 years) - cello

Talk
The female voice of freedom

Admissiont
€ 25 / € 15 / students € 5

Saturday, March 8

ESSLINGEN

7 pm

Münster St. Paul
Esslingen

Concert for Kalesnikava on International Women's Day as part of the ton-art festival 

Maryja Kalesnikava, who graduated as a flautist from the Stuttgart University of Music and was active here as a musician and cultural manager, but since 2018 has also been increasingly active again in her home city of Minsk, became internationally known in 2020 as one of the three female figureheads of the democracy movement in Belarus.

Initially abducted and disappeared for days during the violent suppression of the demonstrations, then brought to trial, sentenced to eleven years in prison for her opposition activities, abused in prison, transferred to a civilian hospital in a terminal condition and returned to the camp early after successful treatment, she showed no sign of life from March 2023 until her father was able to visit her in prison in November 2024.

This concert is for her.

Works for voices, cello, organ, flutes and percussion by Lachenmann, Blecharz, Hermann, Nas and Dreher

with Natasha López, Frank Wörner, Felix Muntwiler, Albrecht Imbescheid, the Trio vis-à-vis and the Percussion Ensemble Stuttgart.

Program:
Helmut Lachenmann (1935) temA (1968)
Trio vis-à-vis: Natasha López - voice, Petra Arman - flute, Hugo Rannou - cello

Wojciech Blecharz (1981) blacksnowfalls (2014)  

Aleksandra Nawrocka 

Lecture

Matthias Hermann (1960) Echo 3 - Studie für fünf Schlagzeuge (2024, UA) 

Mayke Nas (1972)  Cinderella (2018) 
Tamara Kurkiewicz 



Klaus Sebastian Dreher (*1967) AVE MARIJA - Musik für Kalesnikava (2025, UA)

Performers:
Natasha López, Frank Wörner - voice
Hugo Rannou - violoncello
Felix Muntwiler - organ
Albrecht Imbescheid, Petra Arman, Maren Dreher, Julia Steinbächer - flute
Percussion Ensemble Stuttgart: Anna Fiveiska, Tamara Kurkiewicz, Seongyeon Kong, Aleksandra Nawrocka, Xia Yuan - percussion
Trio vis-à-vis: Natasha López - voice, Petra Arman - flute, Hugo Rannou - violoncello