Subscription Die lange Nacht des Meeres 1 & 2

Sea literature & sea music (Quadriga Consort & Caribbean Jazz Band) on July 5 & 6
Homer: "Odyssey", narrated by Rainer Hauer
Bürger: "The Sea Adventures of Baron Munchhausen", narrated by Tobias Moretti
Andersen: "The Little Mermaid", narrated by Heilwig Pfanzelter
Ringelnatz: "Kuttel Daddeldu, the Sailor", narrated by Wolfgang Kaven
Bligh / Forster: "The Mutiny on the Bounty", narrated by Robert Stadlober
Defoe: "Robinson Crusoe", narrated by Kurt Palm
Verne: "20.000 Leagues under the Sea", narrated by Fritz Muliar
Melville: "Moby Dick", narrated by Erika Pluhar

The oceans are nature's biggest mystery. They combine all of man's longings and fears in their uncontrollable, enigmatic vastness. Since the beginning of civilisation, artists have time and again tried to capture the fascination of the sea in images and stories, bringing world literature into being that has characterised our cultural landscape.

For the "Long Weekend of the Sea" (Die lange Nacht des Meeres 1 & Die lange Nacht des Meeres 2), the pick of German-speaking actors will meet in the Helmut-List-Halle to tell the most beautiful sea stories of world literature. In a reading marathon, prefaced both evenings by an exciting programme for children, adaptations for children of "Robinson Crusoe" and "Treasure Island" will be read; versions of the same stories for adults will be read later in the evening.

Two images in particular emerge over and again in world literature about the sea: the swaying sailing vessels of explorers and pirates, who explored and conquered foreign lands, and the heavenly beaches found on the islands of the South Seas, which promise an enchanting, primordial existence so entirely different to life within the constraints of civilisation.

The music to be heard between readings on the "Long Weekend of the Sea" will reflect both these scenes. The Quadriga Consort will be playing songs of wind, waves and tides; the Caribbean Jazz Band bewitches with music from the natives of those distant South Sea islands, which, from the opposite side of the world, enticed seamen to take great hazards, risking everything, to be able to set foot on these paradisiacal shores.