After 22 years, the director Eva Hofmann leaves the cultural office of the municipality of Oberhaching to devote herself to private projects.
Now it has been officially adopted.
With a lot of applause.
Oberhaching
- Eva Hofmann headed the cultural office of the municipality of Oberhaching for 22 years.
In April of this year she resigned in order to be able to devote herself to her own projects.
Now, with a corona-related delay, she was adopted - at one of the tried and tested combination of concert and reading that she invented.
Bernd Lhotzky and his lively trio played the concert, Eva Hofmann wrote the lyrics that BR speaker and jazz connoisseur Peter Veit read between the highly lively pieces.
As has been customary for years at the beautiful “Festival for Chamber Music, Literature and World Music.
"A world collapsed".
Because long performances, during which there would be a break, are not possible at the moment, Lhotzky and Hofmann steamed down the program a little. And performed it or had it performed twice in a row. Which was good anyway, because the hall at the Forstner can only hold 90 visitors under pandemic conditions - and it was clear that more people would want to come. With regard to the program in Oberhaching, you have long had withdrawal symptoms; Lhotzky, who traditionally celebrates his 50th birthday by giving a concert in his home town, was unable to celebrate his 50th birthday in winter 2020 as usual.
Accordingly: after the second performance that evening, long, long applause. The visitors almost didn't want to stop clapping, afterwards there were some who thanked Eva Hofmann personally and gave her gifts. Lhotzky had also officially adopted her, while still on stage he said that when he heard of her decision, "a world collapsed" for him. Working with her was “so nice”, “her texts were so funny and enriching, very special”. The only consolation: The doctorate in German, English and American studies will definitely stay with the community and the stage in the community for which she has made the program for so long. As she promised even then. She said "thank you with all my heart" to the audience,In the course of her work she got to know some of the regular visitors a bit privately, “that too is culture”.
A very amusing journey through the history of jazz
The evening? Under the heading “Jazz it up!” It was a very amusing foray into the history of jazz and its protagonists. While the Bernd Lhotzky Trio played pieces by the people concerned with their usual virtuosity, one learned in the text blocks that Louis Armstrong was a kind of missionary in matters of laxatives, which his mother had already sworn by. Duke Ellington tried in vain to go on a diet throughout his life, Willie “The Lion” Smith was “a gladiator through and through”, a gladiator in the arena of music. Bix Beiderbecke, who unfortunately drank far too much, kept losing his pin tooth - and then searched desperately with his colleagues. Once even in the snow. He couldn't play without the tooth. Meanwhile, the brilliant Irving Berlin knocked out a new song every night,and he didn't give young George Gershwin a job because he saw straight away that he was simply overqualified for menial jobs far away from music.
Once again you were happy for an evening at the Forstner.
The next opportunity to meet Eva Hofmann and one of the Lhotzkys - in this case: Isabel Lhotzky - there is January 28, 2022 at the “Festival for Chamber Music, Literature and World Music”.
The topic will be: Vienna at the turn of the century.
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