MEHR ALS NUR EIN LIED / More than just one song (2024)

Part 3 of the performance series “How to Listen to Monuments and what to Listen to when Everything is Meeting?”

What songs are there to sing in a time of division, right-wing politics and war?

“Mehr als nur ein Lied” is a site specific performance in two movements. The first movement  juxtaposes the German national anthem a.o. with “Das Moorsoldatenlied” (The Moor Soldier’s Song). It was written and sung in 1933 by prisoners of the Börgermoor concentration camp as a protest song against the bestiality of the Nazi regime.

“Das Deutschlandlied” (“Song of Germany”), that became in 1922 the first German national anthem, was sung publicly for the first time in 1841 at Jungfernstieg Hamburg. On the 8th may 2024 (“Liberation day WWII) a large a cappella choir sang there “Das Moorsoldatenlied” as an acoustic monument.

In the second movement the choir sang a cacophony of 80 alternative hymns, all sung simultaneously. The songs were chosen by the singers themselves.

Watch –> Movement I <– (vimeo)
Watch –> Movement II <– (vimeo)

Co-production Kampnagel, Ratschlag 8. Mai. Funded by Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg.

Concept, director: Daniel Dominguez Teruel Choir director: Eva Spaeth Choir a.o.: Joelle Steurer, Dor Aloni, Nouri, Josephine Auvray, Ann-Kathrin Quednau, Dgamr von Renner, Tina Burova, Stefan Wirblatt, Avraham Rosenblum, Mehrnoush Sharifi, Maike Majewski, Alice Barkhausen, Howard Bridges, Johanna von Renner, Jetzmann, … Performance: Timoleon Papadopoulos Drone/Camera: Geerd Jacobs Camera: Jacob Petersein, Saman Maeruf, Artur Brückmann Color Grading: Sergi Sanchez Rodriguez Press: Apricot Prodcution
Photos: Marianne Menke