TRARA THÜRINGEN!

Following the “Eisenacher Sommergewinn” spring festival, Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschafte will be celebrating a winter festival as an outro to its musical study trip in the run-up to the Kunstfest. The mini-Kunstfest invites guests to sing along, listen and get involved. A conductor dressed as a lump is your MD for the evening, bringing into position the thrown-together choir made up of the Kunstfest audience, passersby and old friends. Will everyone join together and do a conga into an open-ended future? Are they readying themselves for hard times? Anyone have a lump in their throat? The winter festival is a musical moment of change and coming together. Throughout this year the project team is investigating how regional identities are expressed through music and collective singing. Whether its driving out the winter in Orlamünde, the spring festival in Eisenach, the crowning of the Rose Queen in Dornburg or the Bratwurst Song Contest in Mühlhausen: the Syndikat sang along and got to know people. It explored people’s definitions
of Heimat – that untranslatable German word for a feeling of home and belonging – while at the same time keeping an ear open for local alternatives. Afterwards it will workshop new compositions with local musicians and clubs that reflect different perspectives of mobility and home, of tradition and change. Each evening will be broadcast on Radio Lotte.