An evening for Mascha Kaléko

„Der Himmel ist erdbeerrosa und hat ein paar blaue Wolken vorgehängt“

‘The sky is strawberry pink and has a few blue clouds hanging in front of it’

The poet Mascha Kaléko had to flee twice in her life. First as a seven-year-old girl at the beginning of the First World War with her Jewish parents from Galicia. A second time as a well-rooted Berliner from the Nazis. In the Weimar Republic, she celebrated her first successes as a poet in her early twenties. Her mixture of ‘lyrical’ and ‘almost satirical’, her quiet melancholy, the easily understandable and yet so poetic language in which she often clothed small everyday observations and biographical details, appealed to, touched and understood many people then and now.

Concept commissioned by the Haus der Heimat des Landes Baden-Württemberg

Featuring

Luise Wunderlich, conception and rehearsal
Milena Böhm, speaker, cello, vocals
Julika Hing, speaker, voice
Felix Janssen, speaker, piano, vocals
Michelle Sitko, speaker, piano, vocals