Now more than ever: Artists illuminate the many facets of human rights

Created: 05/18/2022, 07:01

By: Katrin Hager

An installation with traffic signs on the market square in Holzkirchen refers to the festival for human rights.

© Christian Scholle

The "Festival for Human Rights" in Holzkirchen is heading towards its programmatic highlight.

On the weekend (May 20th to 22nd) music, poetry and theater will illuminate the content of the UN Charter at Kultur im Oberbräu.

Holzkirchen

– From human dignity to the right to security, to asylum, to starting a family, to leisure time, education, housing and cultural participation: Human rights are currently visible in Holzkirchen in the exhibitions for the “Festival for Human Rights”.

On the weekend, 20./21.

/22.

May, the festival is heading for its programmatic climax in Kultur im Oberbräu: theatre, music and more deal with human rights and their facets.

On Friday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m., Mayor Christoph Schmid, as patron, will inaugurate the forecourt of the Kulturhaus at a ceremony as a "Place for Human Rights".

In the future, this will be indicated by boards on the side wall and in the floor.

At 8 p.m., the “Now more than ever!” evening begins in the Fools Theater (admission: 14 euros).

Also present are Zither-Manä, who has been tearing down genre boundaries on his instrument for 40 years and has been thinking critically, socially critical short films by Horst Orlich, the Munich poetry slamer Meike Harms, the musical clowning duo Esel:com and Andrea Pancur, well-known as the voice of Massel-Tov and her project Alpenklezmer, singing songs for freedom and humanity with Boris Ruge on guitar under the title "And because man is a man".

On Saturday, May 21, at 8 p.m., the ensemble Peripher around Lydia Starkulla with Sarah Schill, Stefan Weyerer and Urmel Saurle will premiere their own play “29 – a research trip to human rights” (tickets: 16 euros).

The play examines Article 29 of the UN Human Rights Charter: the “basic duty towards the community”.

28 rights, only one obligation: Shouldn't be a problem – or should it?

A musically subtle brunch and a children's event conclude the weekend on Sunday at 11 a.m.

Musician and composer Flori Burgmayr and musician and actress Maria Hafner present subtle thoughts on human rights in the culture café over white sausage or coffee and cake (admission free, reservation required at cafe@kultur-im-oberbraeu.de).

At the same time, Agnes Kraus and Harry Oriold, alias Frau Brausel and Käpt'n Brummel, take children from three to six and adults on an imaginative journey with "The Little Globetrotters" (admission for children: six euros, adults: eight euros).

The entire program can be found at www.kultur-im-oberbraeu.de, where you can also buy tickets in advance - as well as at the box office (Wednesdays 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays 5 to 7 p.m., telephone 0 80 24 / 47 85 05).