Doctor Faustus - Editorial office of the modern age

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Participants
Students of the HfMT
Piano: Anastasiia Shykyrinska (Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in A flat major, op. 110)
Lecture and moderation: Dr. habil Wolfram Ette and Dr. Benjamin Sprick

Thomas Mann's novel "Doctor Faustus. The life of the German composer Adrian Leverkühn, told by a friend" challenges us to an artistic-performative actualization. The days of coherent, harmonious art are over. A novel that reveals a keen awareness of this like few others suggests its own deconstructive editing and appropriation. All the more so as it not only deals with the theoretical and practical issues of musical modernism, but also links and connects them with Germany's path to fascism. No Western democracy should now claim to be immune to such tendencies in principle.
This semester (every Friday, 10:00-12:30), a seminar on Doctor Faustus will take place at the HfMT, focusing on the examination of this novel as well as its artistic updating. The evening would like to invite you to follow us on this path in a first step. The topics will be the late Beethoven and the motif of the artistic prescription of the devil, which will be the starting point for a perfomative research. Different media and artistic perspectives will intertwine and the audience will be able to join in the discussion.

Designed by students of the seminar (always Fridays, 10:00-12:30).

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Registration is required and can be done via eventbrite.