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| Name |
Uli Klan |
| Subject |
eleni karaindrou |
| Date |
06.08.2003 |
| Time | 17:13 |
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| Message |
Dear Ms. Karaindrou,
with heartly greetings and best wishes from the international Armin-T.-Wegner-Society in Wuppertal,
Germany, I want you to know, that there are many
many friends of your marvellous music in our country and especially in our literaric society.
I am the authorized member of Armin-T.-Wegner-Society-Presidium to ask you, if you would like to take a view on some poems or prosa of this german and international poet and humanist Armin T. Wegner. We want to ask you, if you find inspiration in his language and message, for your music to something of his work.
Let me therefore give you a short introduction into life and work of Armin Theophil Wegner. He was born 1886 in Wuppertal (Germany), the town of early industrial revolution, of social utopies and great poetry - here
also were born Friedrich Engels and the most famous
femal poet of Germany in the 20th Century, the jewish-german poet Else Lasker-Schüler. She was friend with
Armin T. Wegner, and she (like him and many of the best) was driven out of her country bei the Nazis.
Wegner died 1978 in Rome in exil. He wrote poems,
theatre and Radio-Pieces, short prosa and political essays. His Travelling-Reports from Near East and Sovjet-Union got bestsellers. He was clairvoyant on
the repression of Stalinism and NS-Regime . His "Letter to Hitler", a protest against the beginning antisemitic pogroms after Hitler got Reich-Cancellor 1933, was - as an example of very srong courage of his conviction - unprecetended.
But Armin T. Wegner wrote also miracolous poems of love, of living in town and on many other subjects. Here also he was an early, courageous and original represent of Expressionism. As one of the earliest he wrote against (every) war. But he didn't only write -
he chosed the more dangerous and troublesome way to
go to ambulance - to help wounded people at both sides. By this way he found to one of his most courageous and worldwide effective act, as he brought
out his eyewitness report about the genocid by the turkish government against the armenian people 1915 / 16. Wegner published that first holocaust worldwide in a famous open letter to US-Preident Wilson 1919.
For all this Armin T. Wegner is - until day/permanent -honoured with the title "Fair and Just of Nations" in the Holocaust-Memorial Yad Vashem (Jerusalem), in Eriwan (Armenia) and worldwide in the armenain diaspora.
To make his name well known again with music and
in the best artist way can confirm the aims of international and intercultural tolerance, peace and human rights.
Now enough for today. Would you interest, dear Mrs. Karaindrou, to get some poems or texts of this Poet?
(In English or in the original language German? )
We plan a great Project for 2004 - a Double-CD with
selected works of Wegner and especially with new music on his words. The Name of the CD-Project is "Picture of
a voice" (after a Wegner-Title - a beautiful short prosa
on Voice and Peace). Also other great international
composers are asked to take part in this CD, for example George Dreyfus (Melbourne) - he sent us already a new song on a Wegner-Poem, Gilead Mishory (Israel), Rabih Abou-Khalil (Beirut/München), David Haladjian (Swisse/Armenia). Betin Günes (Izmir/Köln) and several german composers.
We would be glad to hear your music in this project.
Best wishes
your
Uli Klan (Armin-T.-Wegner-Society)
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