Organ & Poetry

The organ is regarded, as Mozart called it, as the 'Queen of Instruments' and fulfills large spaces with its richness of sound and expressive depth.

Both royal disciplines now come together in a unique concert format. Renowned poets from here and now respond with their poems to organ works from Bach to the present. In a fourth chapter, representatives of both arts improvise together.

The organ works on June 1:

• Johann Sebastian BachPrelude in B minor, BWV 544:1
  
• Jan Pieterszoon SweelinckFantasia Cromatica
  
• Franz SchmidtOrgan Interludefrom the oratorio The Book with Seven Seals
  

Kathrin Schmidt is a diploma psychologist and has made a name for herself as an editor and social scientist, especially during the time of reunification. For her literary works, she has received numerous awards, including the Leonce and Lena Award 1993.

Jack Day has been the cantor at the Luisenkirche Berlin-Charlottenburg since 2017, where he shaped the concept of the new Reil organ and developed the church into a place for radio services. In 2024, he realized a concert series funded by the Berlin Senate Administration featuring organ concerts by C.P.E. Bach and Handel.

Thomas Wohlfahrt is the curator of the event series. Born in 1956 in Eisenach, he studied German studies and musicology in Halle/Saale and worked at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in East Berlin from 1983 to 1988. After leaving the GDR in 1988, he worked as a freelance writer for press and radio in West Berlin.


Evangelical Luisenkirche Gierkeplatz 4 10585 Berlin-Charlottenburg

Admission: 10 €, reduced 8 € (for children up to 14 years, refugees, free admission with Berlin pass)