Witzenhausen
Born on January 7, 1903, in Munich, the geographer, diplomat, and writer was held in Gestapo custody in the Lehrter Straße prison in Berlin on December 7, 1944. During the final months of his life, until his murder by an SS unit on April 23, 1945, he wrote 80 poems as a political and personal legacy, which were posthumously published in 1946 under the title Moabit Sonnets. In 2008, guitarist and singer/songwriter Francis D.D. String, together with musicians from Die Liedertour, created a surprisingly moving musical setting of this strict poetic form, which on the one hand takes into account the appropriate mood of the literary original and on the other makes the more than 80-year-old texts seem highly topical; in 2011 they released twelve of these settings on the CD Francis D.D. String & Die Liedertour – Albrecht Haushofer Homage. Alongside Uwe Arends from Ringelnatz, the versatile Leipzig singer-songwriter Ralph Schüller has, for more than ten years, lent his voice as the musical backbone of Die Liedertour Albrecht Haushofer, including in the performance at Capitol Kino in Witzenhausen. Cast: Ralph Schüller - guitar, vocals Jann van de Kaast - drums, vocals Marcel Winkler - bass Frank Oberhof - accordion Gunter Schwarz - electric guitar Miko Mikulicz - violin Per Edelmann - narrator Uwe Arends - reader With the kind support of the support association Freunde des Capitol Kinos e.V.
