“neues deutsches Lied” – an Anti-racist Song RecitalConcert with piano and voice
In their duo performance, Derya Atakan and Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg explore the interfaces between art song and contemporary poetry, between improvisation, intersectionality and trauma. Tempestuous and jovial, often political, always direct and at times a little lost, they burst the boundaries of European art song. Musical motifs from the Levant and pop culture shines through it all like a dreamlike memory.
In their duo performance, Derya Atakan and Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg explore the interfaces between art song and contemporary poetry, between improvisation, intersectionality and trauma. Tempestuous and jovial, often political, always direct and at times a little lost, they burst the boundaries of European art song. Musical motifs from the Levant and pop culture shines through it all like a dreamlike memory.
Derya Atakan (vocals) and Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg (piano) invite you to immerse yourself in the kaleidoscopic sound of dispersal, collectivity, violence and romanticism.
Derya Atakan, born in the Bavarian haze of the nineties, studied opera singing in Berlin and Paris, unites the three forces of opera, punk and the sounds of the Levant. Combining original compositions and operatic references in her work, her soprano voice directs the focus on the forces of nature and the absurdity and comedy of everyday life. In her invitation to collective metamorphosis, the incompatible and the contradictory embrace each other. Pathos meets vexation, slapstick meets solemnity, dream meets reality.
Daniel Arkadij Gerzenberg, born in 1991, is poet, performer, pianist, librettist and a member of poetry collective G13. His work focusses on the topics of identity, anti-Semitism and sexualised violence. Together with Max Czollek, he curated the four-part series Lieder für das Jetzt at the 2022 Heidelberger Frühling International Music Festival and co-edited the resulting Lieder issue of the Akzente magazine. He teaches poetry at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and is a member of the Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD).
This event is part of the festival AusARTen – Perspektivwechsel durch Kunst (Change of Perspective through Art). Doors open at 6 PM.
