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The new CD:

"To inhibit the artist is a crime."

Audio CD and Booklet with 15 reproductions of original paintings of the expressionistic epoche of art.

The Austrian painter Egon Schiele noted under a painting created during a prison stay in 1912: "to inhibit the artist is a crime. it is called murdering germinating life." The timelessness of this quote at the beginning of the Corona pandemic prompted a team from Ensemble shtetl to look around the local art collection:

What can be found by Egon Schiele, what works by other artists in the collection also point to the present?
The answer to these questions were three guided tours:

I ETERNAL CHILD
The artist, as a medium of inner voices and the message of the world

O, MY PAINFULL LUST
love as beginning, end and endless agony

THE END OF THE WORLD
The end of the world comes in many forms

At each of five positions, the audience lingered for a moment and received brief impulses about the artworks. With texts by Emmy Hennings, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Erich Mühsam, Jakob van Hoddis and Egon Schiele, new connections were made between the arts.
The actress Maria Neumann and the actor Ulrich Penquitt arranged
the words from the past.
The ensemble shtetl (with flute, clarinet, accordion, harmonium, cello and double bass) used the art of improvisation to build a bridge to the radical present: to the now.
With each piece of music that sounded, the audience - while contemplating the originals of world art history - witnessed its own moment of creation

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