District of Landsberg: Culture promotion prizes have been awarded

Created: 11/21/2022, 11:45 am

By: Andrea Schmelzle

One of the two special prizes as part of the district's culture promotion prize went to the DoReMi youth choir, conducted by Silvia Elvers.

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District – A wide range of cultures, a colorful mix of genres – and special messages at special times: the district’s culture promotion prize was awarded on Friday evening.

At this year's festive award ceremony, which was allowed to take place again for the first time since 2019, there were cinematic, choral, instrumental, sociocultural, "street art" - and political things in the Stadttheater, which was almost filled to capacity.

The winners of the 2022 cultural promotion prize of the district of Landsberg with district administrator Thomas Eichinger (centre) and savings bank chairman Roland Böck (2nd from left).

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"Make a noise and make it loud" sings the youth choir of the Evangelische Pauluskirche Kaufering DoReMi - to start with.

A thought-provoking message from the rock anthem "You're the Voice" by John Farnham.

"Raise your voice against injustice" - that is important, especially nowadays, Axel Flörke, who leads the evening, welcomes the audience.

The children's and youth choir DoReMi, directed by Silvia Elvers, whose repertoire goes far beyond church hymns and spiritual things, can look forward to one of the two special prizes and open the event.

Everyone is probably happy that it can take place again.

If only the ceremony was canceled in 2020, a year later the culture prize was not even awarded.

117 children and young people from the various sub-choirs - choir sparrows, elementary school choirs, children's choir, youth choir and Vocalissimo - stand on the stage, look attentively at conductor Silvia Elvers and present four very different pieces to the enthusiastic audience, accompanied by Jan Röck on the piano.

They prove once again that they have “become a real professional group”, says Flörke.

The children's enthusiasm and discipline are admirable.

The fact that they also have acting talent and a good dose of humor is shown in the piece "Es leads over the Main" (Felicitas Kuckuck, edited by Silvia Elvers), sung and staged by everyone.

Elvers motivates children and young people and has a large share in the "contagious energy" of the singers,

Choir and theatre: DoReMi at the presentation of the 2022 culture promotion award © Schmelzle

The Story Behind

There will be no speakers present in person this year - a change after a three-year break.

To do this, he has to "speak more and faster," says Flörke - and comes to the first of the culture prize winners to be honored: director and cameraman Lennart Hüper, who wants to get close to people on film and "immerse themselves in their world".

As a "quasi eulogy", Flörke conveyed words from Sandra Hacker, Hüper's professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences: His films are always about "pictures behind the pictures", about telling "stories behind the stories".

With great courage, determination and tenacity, the "smiling humanist" dedicates himself to complex social issues.

In a selection of trailers and a film excerpt, Hüper ultimately proves his “cleverly planned” film montage, as Hacker states, through which he succeeds in “bringing nuances to the fore and letting them resonate”: “Nothing new” about sea rescuer Claus- Peter Reisch and his "Lifeline" getting stuck in front of Malta, "Never Inland", in which he accompanied four asylum seekers in Vienna in their everyday life, and "Series 6" about a family that was torn apart in the Georgian War.

Winner number two, bassoonist Timm Kornelius, who as a child had to be “satisfied” with the fagottino (because his fingers were still too short), impressively proves that his hands are now big enough to master the large, bass-packed woodwind instrument perfectly.

Accompanied by Teresa Alvarez on cello, he begins with the first movement "Allegro" of the Mozart Sonata in B flat major for bassoon and cello.

"Timm enjoys discovering his potential and living it," says his professor Karsten Nagel, with whom he studies bassoon at the University of Augsburg's Leopold Mozart Center.

He shows his versatility with excerpts from a children's concert, which he developed himself based on fables by Franz Kanefzky.

Narrating, he explains, for example, "Why the pig cried" - and sets it to music with the bassoon - which can suddenly grunt like a pig.

Also,

Flörke initiates a cultural talk with the number three winner of the cultural prize, the graffiti and street art artist Vincent Göhlich, alias erwa.one.

Even as a child, Vincent spent "creative hours" with colors, according to Flörke, who met the artist as part of the "Art on the construction fence" spray competition in 2020 and is his (only personally present) laudator.

Vincent strives to support and promote an urban culture that, according to Flörke in Landsberg, is "still asleep".

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A more colorful city

He wants to deal with the city and the people - socially critically - and in particular advance youth work, "because that's very important to me personally," says Göhlich.

He could imagine a lot for the future, such as power and transformer boxes, motorway bridges or garages.

"We're going into next year with the hope that Landsberg will be more colourful," emphasizes Flörke.

The conclusion, as the second special prize winner, is the socio-cultural and inclusive project VIVA marginal phenomena.

"Quasi-laudator" Ludwig Zitzelsberger, longtime cameraman of the group, who was torn when it was founded ten years ago "between skepticism and enthusiasm" ("How is something like that supposed to work in a small town in Upper Bavaria?"), initially saw the project as the misunderstood what the name suggested: a marginal phenomenon.

But it has always been more than that: in a constantly expanding portfolio of plays, films, radio plays, performances and social projects, it creates space for diversity and variety, is opposed to any form of discrimination and advocates values ​​such as mindfulness and respect one.

Then it gets dark: The participants of the audiovisual dance theater "Moonlight", the last production of VIVA Randfallen, present excerpts from it: dark, fascinating, mystical and absolutely thrilling.

Culture creates meaning

For the presentation of the certificate (the "money has already flowed", according to Flörke) by district administrator Thomas Eichinger and the chairman of the Sparkasse Landsberg-Dießen Roland Böck, who donate the prize, all artists are brought back onto the stage.

"This evening shows the variety of cultural developments in our city," emphasizes Eichinger.

Politically, things are "not exactly for the best", many are unsettled.

Especially in such times it is all the more important to promote and support culture and its transmission - that helps to find the meaning of life.

"The award winners have all shown us this in their own way," said Eichinger.

"The gentlemen really deserved the final applause." And it came - loud and thunderous.

District Administrator Thomas Eichinger with conductor Silvia Elvers at the awarding of the special prize to the DoReMi youth choir.

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