BEETHOVEN? The Redeeming Blemish (...where have I not been wounded or cut?!)

Premiere for a deaf dancer/sign language soloist/vocalist, instrumental ensemble, video, 8.1 channel audio + live electronics

with text excerpts from Ludwig van Beethoven's letters and conversation books and using

motifs of his music, as well as texts by Helmut Oehring

Composition commissioned by the Beethoven Jubiläums Gesellschaft within the framework of BTHVN2020

Idea, composition, camera, direction, choreography, musical and artistic direction: Helmut Oehring

Text, dramaturgy, direction, photography:
Stefanie Wördemann

Sound/video production, camera, editing, sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p

deaf dancer/sign language soloist/vocalist, choreography:
Kassandra Wedel

Instrumental soloists:
Ensemble Musikfabrik