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Transience, presented by (picture right, from left) Marianne Sägebrecht, Andreas Arnold and Josef Brustmann in the very well-attended parish church of St. Andreas.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Josef Brustmann, Marianne Sägebrecht and Andreas Arnold appeared in support of the Wolfratshauser Neighborhood Help.
The topic: death.
Wolfratshausen – This much death in one heap is not an everyday occurrence.
Even if you know that art is full of corresponding motifs.
Transience in a compact format was now in the Catholic parish church of St. Andreas at the charity event with the simple title “Poems and songs about life and death”.
Poetry about death: Deadly serious charity event by Josef Brustmann and Marianne Sägebrecht
Actress and author Marianne Sägebrecht, known, among other things, from the film “Out of Rosenheim”, the musician, poet and cabaret artist Josef Brustmann and musician Andreas Arnold performed citizens for citizens in support of the Wolfratshausen neighborhood help group to promote their new project “Against loneliness and distress in the Age”.
The evening was a given, especially for Brustmann as the patron of neighborhood assistance.
Free entry, full house, at the end there were autographs and donations were requested.
The program is not entirely new.
For ten years, the three artists have been performing a collection of songs, music and poems about saying goodbye.
A morbid collection of texts like for a literary introductory seminar - verses and rhymes of timeless elegance and without an expiration date.
Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff, Heinrich Heine, Werner Bergengruen, Clemens von Brentano, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, Johannes Bobrowski, Peter Maiwald, Robert Gernhardt, Ringelnatz, Hermann Hesse, Erich Kästner and Josef Brustmann himself create the dance of death here, albeit under the noise A lot of things remain vague.
“The Christian faith is not an information office about how the afterlife is equipped,” warns Pastor Gerhard Beham right at the beginning.
With this in mind, it probably means: Don't get cocky.
Transience, presented by (picture right, from left) Marianne Sägebrecht, Andreas Arnold and Josef Brustmann in the very well-attended parish church of St. Andreas.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
But that lyrical dance of death in the parish church is far from arrogance.
A little more esprit and humor in these two hours would have been good for him.
Because at some point the contemplation that is celebrated here over long stretches is enough and the hard pew becomes noticeable in the back.
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The problem: Every text, every song is effective and worth thinking about in its own right, but in concentrated performance the thoughts about the finite almost cancel each other out in their deadly seriousness and meander through the context as a contemplative background noise.
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Certainly, Andreas Arnold's saxophone and clarinet playing works excellently as a congenial complement.
Brustmann accompanies his songs on the keyboard and zither skillfully and playfully in a light minor key.
And if anyone can read aloud, it's Marianne Sägebrecht.
But where is the gain in knowledge if every poem, every song, could be the last?
What if everyone wants to go to heaven but no one wants to die?
Maybe you'll take this insight with you from the evening: death isn't that bad.
Dying just sucks.
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