30
25.06.2026
Thu 20 h
Foyer Nikolaisaal Potsdam
Music and words

An Evening for Ingeborg Bachmann

Musical reading on the occasion of the 100th birthday of a shining figure

Program

poems and texts by
Ingeborg Bachmann 

chamber music by 
Maurice Ravel
Eugène Ysaye
Benjamin Britten
Hans Werner Henze 
& Ernest Bloch

Artists

Ursina Lardi reading

MORGENSTERN TRIO
Catherine Klipfel piano
Stefan Hempel violin
Emanuel Wehse cello

Like a comet, Ingeborg Bachmann appeared in the literary sky of postwar Germany and became a legend even in her lifetime. In her »Hommage à Maria Callas«, a work that is equally directed towards herself, it says that »she lived on a razorblade«. Bachmann was a master in the field of language, a field which according to her was limited by the world, perceived in pain and pleasure. On the great poet’s 100th birthday, star actress Ursina Lardi from the Berlin Schaubühne expresses the brightness of this unique language – but not without music, to which Ingeborg Bachmann felt an intimate connection throughout her whole life.

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