Mensch, Musik! #6 – Heimkehr in die Fremde by Mendelssohn, Martinů, Berlinski, Mamlok, Walker, George, Fujikura, Reimann, Frá (2023/2023), Hljómsveitarstjóri Ruth Reinhardt, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, Germany

Return to the Unknown – Who am I, where do I come from, where do I belong? Questions of origin, homeland and identity connect the composers of the evening, who were expelled from their homeland (Bohuslav Martinů, Ursula Mamlok), no longer live in their country of origin (Dai Fujikura) or deal artistically with the enslavement of their ancestors (George Walker). Their symphonic and chamber music works meet electronic compositions by the British composer Richard Scott in the Haus des Rundfunks. With an interdisciplinary performance of song, dance, speech, symphonic and electronic music, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, conducted by Ruth Reinhardt, continues its “Mensch, Musik!” series. But not only musical styles, but also dance, song and spoken word will be interwoven: The senior physician and countertenor Philipp Mathmann, at once at home in medicine and music, interprets Mendelssohn’s Heine lieder settings in a disturbing arrangement by Aribert Reimann. The dancer and choreographer Gustavo Ilano had to leave his Colombian homeland at the end of the 1990s and also expressively presents his own life story with “Heimkehr in die Fremde”. And the actress and speaker Inka Löwendorf lends her voice to texts about home and foreign countries.