Nazi persecution and music history | Lecture: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Geiger
Lecture series "So you are gone, but not forgotten" - Music in concentration camps Part 5 of 7
To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the lecture series is dedicated to music in the concentration camps during the Nazi terror. The title of the lecture is taken from Hanns Eisler's German Symphony, in which the composer describes the terror in the Nazi concentration camps on the one hand and offers resistance on the other. The various forms of aesthetic resistance to Nazi terror and the music that was created under the terrible conditions of the dictatorship in the concentration camps will be presented in the lecture series using a number of works. The focus is on composers and musicians, their biographies and their works, as well as the historical circumstances and reception histories.
In the event, which was jointly conceived by the hmt's musicology department and the Center for Ostracized Music, various guest scholars will be invited to give lectures. There will be alternating seminar sessions in which individual aspects and materials will be supplemented and explored in greater depth.
