KURT

Singer Melanie Schmidli and guitarist Martino Dessi, both known from the in-house production GEREIZTEITEN, and Dessi also from DIVA BERLIN, dedicate themselves uncompromisingly and uniquely to the work of Kurt Weill. A composer whose music has spoken of longing, resistance, and exile for almost a hundred years.


KURT is an intimate concert evening – with voice, guitar, and stories between Berlin, Paris, and Broadway. Dessi translates Weill's music into a sonic language of jazz and cinematic, ethereal sounds. Schmidli approaches the texts with a voice that sings, narrates, or contradicts – sometimes fragile, sometimes bizarre, but always direct. – A program for all those who seek stories in songs. And an echo in the silence.