THE POTENTIAL OF SUBVERSIVES

Excerpt from a speech at the German National Theatre in Weimar on the jubilee of the "20 Year Weimar Prize", on the 3rd of October, 2010.

It seems to be my duty, particularly in the present day… to mention the contribution of alternative groups for the new beginning of 1990. Perhaps they can understand my empathy with the Subversives which endures to today… The "key year" for me was 1988, a year in which the “Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar” (EFIM) ("Weimar Ensemble for Intuitive Music") performed the "1st Day of New Music" with 22 works of the German Federal Republic's composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen, despite the official GDR culture politics. … read more…