We bring the MENSCH MASCHINE to Munich’s neighborhoods. A total of 15 song duos will perform for a day in around 75 mini-concerts in public places. They have chosen songs to match the festival motto. Stylistically, they sing and play the full range of song art in this successful format, which is now on the road for the fifth time: from old masters to modern composers of the present day.
This year we have prepared three cycle routes to different locations. You can find them further down on this page.
LIED DUOS
Noémie Bousquet & Noémie Berz
Uli Bützer & Maximilian Langer
Helena Donie & Yeon Seo Ra
Sibylla Elsing & Anna Köbrich
Felicity Förster & Tobias Drewelius
Byungkok Hyun & Seung-Hyun Ku
Mia Jakob & Denise Maurer
Oda Lou Johansen & Heetae Hwang
Carolin Jurkat & Hannah Hauser
Antonia Modes & Louwen Huang
Bastian Röstel & Thomas Aydintan
Annika Sandberg & Juliane Sophie Ritzmann
Antonia Schuchardt & Leonie Bulenda
Julia Shelkovskaia & Nanami Nomura
Polina Yatsenko & Chiara Schmidt
LOGISTICS Christian Buchberger
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Eva Niesen
The four pianos come from our cooperation partner
Piano Fischer
.
Performance
Sat. | September 2, 2023
ADMISSION
free of charge
LOCATIONS
18 locations throughout Munich
WORK
Songs from all centuries
DURATION
All day, around 80 15-minute performances
PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
Sat. | September 10, 2022
Sat. | September 11, 2021
Sat. | September 12, 2020
Sat. | September 14, 2019
OCCUPATION
Sopran
Piano
Program
- “Gretchen on the spinning wheel” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Am Feierabend” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Halt” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Chevaux de bois” by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- “Les Berceaux” by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
- “Le cauchemar du chauffeur de cab” by Joseph Kosma (1905-1969)
Piano
Bariton
Program I: Man, machine! – Are you still alive or are you already in love? LIEBES LIED+
- “To the Distant Beloved” by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
+ improvised melodramas on texts by ChatGPT
Program II: Man, machine! – Tell a story! MYTHS+
- “Journey to Hades” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “To the Lyre” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “To the angry Diana” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
+ improvised melodramas on texts by ChatGPT
Program II: Man, machine! – Tell a joke! SCHMÄH+
- “The girl with the three blue eyes” by Georg Kreisler (1922-2011)
- “The Courageous Schneidergsell” by Johann Michael Haydn (1737-1806)
- “Barbara” by Georg Kreisler (1922-2011)
- “No. 3, From Goethe’s “Faust” by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1828)
- “Pigeon poisoning (spring song)” by Georg Kreisler
+ improvised melodramas on texts by ChatGPT”
Mezzosopran
Piano
Program
- “The haughty Snail-King” by Jake Heggie (*1961)
- “The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cooky” by Jake Heggie (*1961)
- “Euclid” by Jake Heggie (*1961)
- “Spook” by Franz Schreker (1878-1934)
- “Night and Dreams” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Unmoved balmy air” by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano
Sopran
Program
- “The Abandoned Maiden” by Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
- “The men are méchant” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Song of Nanna” by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), from “The Roundheads and the Pointed Heads”
- “Song of the Shen Te” by Sebastian Sprenger (*1972)
- “Pierrot” by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- “Hôtel” by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Piano
Sopran
Program
- “Greeting” by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- “Nocturne” by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), from “On This Island”
- “To the little radio set” by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
- “The Air Balloon” by George William Chard (1765-1849)
- “Nanna’s Song” by Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
- “The eyes of my machine” by Georg Kreisler (1922-2011)
- “Approach, Strong Deliveress!” by George Crumb (1929-2022), from “Apparition”
Bariton
Piano
Program
- “The Dwarf” by Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
- “Silent Tears” by Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
- “Allerseelen” by Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)
- “On the way to you” by Hakjun Yoon (*1972)
Piano
Sopran
Program
- “The Telephone or L’amour à trois” by Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
- “I don’t know who I belong to.” by Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976)
piano
Sopran
Program
- “Wie Melodien zieht es mir” by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- “Zdes khorosho” by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
- “Les chemins de l’amour” by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
- “En drøm” by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- “Bad Weather” by Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
- “Summertime” by George Gerwshin (1873-1943), from “Porgy and Bess”
Piano
Sopran
Program
- “Ballad on the question: What does man live on?” by Kurt Weill (1900-1950), from “The Threepenny Opera”
- “Il pleure dans mon cœur” by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- “If everyone did that” by Georg Kreisler (1922-2011)
- “To each his own” by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Sopran
Piano
Program
- “Course of the World” by Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)
- “Reed Song” by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1947)
- “Waldeinsamkeit” by Max Reger (1873-1916)
- “Lullaby” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
- “Liebeszauber” by Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
Piano
Bariton
Program “Your (last) hour”
- “Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), from “The Magic Flute”
- “O Death, how bitter art thou?” by Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
- “Beat them to death” by Georg Kreisler (1922 – 2011)
- “The Monster Party” by Jan Ulrich Max Vetter (*1963), RocknRoll Realschule – Die Ärzte
- “At Rose Time” by Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)
- “Because it’s fun” by Tina Teubner (* 1966)
Sopran
Program I
- “The Bushes” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “The Dwarf” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Song of the Dolphins” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Sehnsucht” by R. Schumann (1810-1856)
Program II
- “Ellen’s second song” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Totengräbers Heimweh” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Gretchen at the spinning wheel” by F. Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Commissions” by R. Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano
Sopran
Program
- “Gretchen on the spinning wheel” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “Mädchenlied” by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
- “To my piano” by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
- “The Clock” by Carl Loewe (1796-1869)
- “To the little radio set” by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962)
- “Digital Prayer” by Nahre Sol (*1991)
Sopran
Piano
Program
“Dichterliebe” by Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
- “The old, bad songs”
- “I cried in my dream”
- “A young man loves girls”
- “I want to immerse my soul”
- “I can hear the little song ringing”
- “When I look into your eyes”
Sopran
Piano
Program
“On this Island” by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
- “Let the florid music praise!”
- “Now the leaves are falling fast”
- “Seascape”
- “Nocturne”
- “As it is plenty”
