DER WELTBAUMEISTER UND DIE ANDEREN

In 1920, still under the full impact of the First World War, the architect Bruno Taut published 28 charcoal drawings with musical and visual instructions – the story of the downfall of an old world and the resurrection of a new one. An architectural spectacle for symphonic music: buildings disintegrate, forms dissolve, others come together to form new structures. In a time of very real crises, Taut fantasized about a world in which the boundaries between art, society and nature seem to be dissolved. A good hundred years later, again in a time of upheaval and crisis, the musicians and performers Thomas Kürstner, Jenny Schily and Sebastian Vogel have continued to dream up Taut’s vision of a new, humane human community, rewriting it, situating it and putting it into perspective. The result is a cosmos that is as funny as it is touching, in which sounds, words and images are associatively woven into a new network of relationships. Old things fall apart and the longing for a new understanding of things, for peace and a new beginning enter into a dialog with one another.