Solidarity with Maria Kalesnikava

Monday, November 3, 2025

STUTTGART

9:00 p.m.

Theater Rampe
Rakete
Filderstrasse 47
70180 Stuttgart

Free admission

Maria Kalesnikava, founder of the Stuttgart cultural association INTERAKT, is imprisoned as a political prisoner in Belarus. The evening will be organized by her companions in Stuttgart and will include a conversation with Olga Bubich, a Belarusian essayist currently living in exile in Berlin. She will talk about common myths about Belarus that she encounters in Germany:

How much do we know and how much do we not know about our closest Eastern European neighbor? How do we imagine its history, its linguistic and political situation? To what extent do we rely on memories of the Soviet past and fragmentary media reports to form a picture of who the Belarusians are? Olga shares her experiences and impressions and presents facts and statistics from Belarus' past and present.

Olga Bubich (Belarus/Germany) is an essayist focusing on research into collective memory and Europe's traumatic past, a visual artist with two published photo books, and a lecturer with over 15 years of teaching experience.

With contributions from:

Yauhenia Dougaya

Nikola Lutz

Natasha López

Viktoriia Vitrenko

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

28.04.2023 - 09.09.2023

STUTTGART / ONLINE

Prof. Nikola Lutz - Konzeption, Gesamtleitung
Bernhard Eusterschulte - künstlerische Mitarbeit
Prof. Klaus Dreher - Leitung künstlerische Mahnwache
Eveline Vervliet, Carlos Hernandez - Assistenz

Eröffnung 28.04.23
16:30 Uhr
Kunstbezirk
Im Gustav-Siegle-Haus
Leonhardsplatz 28
70182 Stuttgart

mit Beiträgen von Karina Geiger (Amnesty International), Marina Mihalchuk, u.a. und Musik von Remmy Canedo, César Bernal, V.I.A. Belasol u.a.

Die Installation befindet sich ab dem 28.4.23 auf dem Wilhelmsplatz Stuttgart

Eröffnungskonzert 28.04.23
20:30 Uhr an der Installation auf dem Wilhelmsplatz
bei Regen im Kunstbezirk

mit

Chi Him Chik - Elektronik
César Bernal - Kontrabass
Anton Rudakov - Tanz
Nikola Lutz - Video

YouTube Opening Performance cont.act #1

Das Projekt mem.cont.act repräsentiert das Schicksal der Stuttgarter Musikerin und belarusischen Oppositionspolitikerin Maria „Mascha“ Kalesnikava mit einem installativen Portrait, das partizipativ durch Publikumsbeiträge zu einem Kommunikationsraum umgestaltet wird. Musik-und Redebeiträge sowie regelmäßige musikalisch-literarische Mahnwachen aktivieren Kalesnikavas Demokratisierungsimpulse und halten das Bewusstsein für ihre Situation wach. Ein interaktiver Online Space ermöglicht unabhängige individuelle Zugangsformen.

mem.cont.act besteht aus:

Eröffnungsevent mit Musik- und Redebeiträgen

musikalisch-literarische Mahnwachen

Partizipation durch Integration von Publikumsbeiträgen in den Gestaltungsprozess des Kommunikationsraums

Videos und Dokumentationen

individuelle unabhängige Zugangswege durch interaktiven nota-space

Aktuelle Informationen zum Ablauf werden hier publiziert.

gefördert von:

S-K-A-M-e.V.
Kulturamt Stadt Stuttgart
mem.cont.act ist Teil des Gesamtprogrammes FemPalais