„Wo du nicht bist“ there is happiness

17 Schubert songs as wistful soul dramas full of poetry The Berlin cult ensemble Nico and the Navigators and the East Tyrolean music band Franui caused a sensation at the Bregenz Festival with Schubert of a different kind. BREGENZ. What is happiness, who has happiness, where can happiness be found, how can happiness be helped along, can happiness be bought, what does happiness actually mean, or is one man's happiness another man's misery? On the The eight protagonists of the Berlin ensemble Nico and the Navigators, accompanied by the East Tyrolean formation Franui under Andreas Schett, set out in search of their own personal happiness. "Where you are not, there is happiness!" - With this sentence ends one of Schubert's most famous songs "The Wanderer". And it is Schubert, from whose musical song fund Franui drew and seventeen of his songs to a highly poetic, melodramatic soul drama processed. Fissures and breaks And they did it in a tried and tested manner - perhaps even more tenderly, even more intensely, even more cryptically than ever before. With the musical tools of a dance band, Franui move on the edges of electric and folk music, where one can look through crevices and fractures into the abysses or cast a luminous glance upwards. Equipped with wit and melancholy in equal measure, this music is more than just a suggestion that happiness and unhappiness, joy and sorrow, past and present exist parallel to each other. The Navigators, under the direction of Nicola Hümpel and on a stage by Oliver Proske that suggests endless expanses, encounter these emotions and twists and turns with loosely strung together cheerful scenes using all physical, mimic and gestural means. People speak in all languages, but in no common one - in confusion, with each other, past each other. One almost desperately tries to master happiness, to catch it, to trick it. But the view ahead remains one into the void, the cast net proves to be too coarsely meshed. Luck in the game The one does it waiting and beats his time and with it luck to death. "Break on through to the other side" is the motto, loosely based on the Doors, and one plunges into pleasure together, only to wake up in a hangover mood. Even the happiness in the game is one for a short time, like that in the fitness temple. The protagonists are chasing after dreams, the reflection of which they think they have seen. And once again, the bird of fortune in flight has caught up with them... Love, as the only universal language and probably the only state that transcends spatial and temporal boundaries, is ultimately reserved to bind happiness to itself eternally beyond death.

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