Hörkunst-Station am Kunstfest-Pavillon

Retrospective of the collaborations between Kunstfest Weimar and Deutschlandfunk Kultur since 2019

This year’s Kunstfest Weimar presents radio plays produced since 2019 by Deutschlandfunk Kultur in co-operation with Radio Lotte as part of a retrospective at the “Hörkunst-Station”.
Anyone in search of a short, free artistic experience should head for the Kunstfest Pavilion. Pay a small deposit to borrow a pair of headphones and enjoy one of the numerous radio plays produced by Rolf C. Hemke, Artist Director of Kunstfest Weimar.

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IM TIEFEN, QUEEREN WALD

2020 / Mara May / Mich Kranixfeld
Mara May and Micha Kranixfeld’s radio play explores an imagined queer landscape in the Thuringian Forest in which documentary and fictitious voices engage with one another and
create a multilayered soundscape at a place where retreat, utopia and the breaking open of urban norms meet.

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GANG NACH BUCHENWALD

2020 / Christoph Korn
A powerful audio walk unfolds along the historical route to Buchenwald that Christoph Korn designed as a radio play – an acoustic space of remembrance that combines the survivors’ voices, literature and music.

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HACKS UND SEINE ECKERMÄNNER

2021 / Jan Decker
Jan Decker’s audio installation about the “prince of poets” Peter Hacks examines the construct of literary greatness and authorship – a multilayered audio play incorporating the cult of genius, self-enactment and a critical look at the present.

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UND ALLE TIERE RUFEN: DIESER TITEL RETTET DIE WELT AUCH NICHT MEHR

2021 / Marie Bues / Thomas Köck / Anouschka Trocker
Thomas Köck’s many-voiced requiem manifesto, a live radio play directed by Marie Bues and Anouschka Trocker, gives extinct animals a voice and takes a powerful look at the extinction of species, colonial responsibility and a future without humans.

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ANIMATE

2022 / Chris Salter / Kate Story
“Animate” is both a radio play and a performance that uses immersive technology to create a sensory journey through a world that is transforming on account of climate change and in which international artists speak about the vital power of landscapes and how deeply intertwined humans and nature are.

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WERWOLFKOMMANDOS – DER DISKURS

2022 / Marie Schwesinger
Marie Schwesinger and her team use their “Werwolfkommandos” (Werewolf Commandos) to combine authentic court proceedings with scenic readings and conversations about the continuities inherent in right-wing violence and how society processes them.

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UBU

2023 / Robert Wilson 
Following its world premiere, Robert Wilson’s “Ubu”, inspired by Alfred Jarry’s farce “King Ubu” and Joan Miró’s stage characters, returns as a radio play, combining sound art, theatre and visual remembrance to form a multilayered reflection on the misuse of power, war and the absurdity of totalitarian regimes.

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MONOLOG / DIALOG

2023 / Juan Allende-Blin
A musical and radiophonic collage based on texts by Jorge Semprún and Samuel Beckett, honouring the victims and survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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DIE VIELEN STIMMEN MEINES BRUDERS

2023 / Marie Bues / Anouschka Trocker / Magdalena Schrefel / Valentin Schuster
Magdalena Schrefel’s radio play “Die vielen Stimmen meines Bruders” (My Brother’s Many Voices) examines the polyphony of a sibling relationship that moves between personal longings, linguistic
role-switching and the wish for empowerment.

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BEVOR WIR KIPPEN

2024 / Schorsch Kamerun 
Schorsch Kamerun’s “Bevor wir kippen” (Before We Fall Over) creates a radical, participatory and highly topical auditive resonance chamber about the future of art, education and public discourse that incorporates Weimar songs, performative interventions and controversial debates.

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During the festival daily free to borrow or free to stream here: kunstlotte.de