Aktuelles

Eisler’s *Deutsche Symphonie* is being staged for the first time. The performance will take place at the INTERIM at the Staatstheater Kassel, on the site of the former Jägerkaserne. Director: Paul-Georg Dittrich, Musical Director: Kiril Stankow
Performances: 30 May, 7.00–8.20 pm, 3 June, 7.00–8.20 pm, 13 June, 6.00–7.20 pm, 19 June, 7.00–8.20 pm, 23 June, 7.00–8.20 pm

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Concert featuring specially arranged works by Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, Charlie Chaplin and others; The Hague String Trio, Lucy Woodward (vocals), Marijn van Prooijen (double bass and arrangement), Vinsent Planjer (percussion). Annechien Koerselman (Regie).
Premiere am 23. Janaur 2026 in Dordrecht (NL), Theater Kunstmin, 20:15 Uhr.

Out of the Box – Workshop discussion with Peter Konopatsch: ‘Spain’s sky spreads its stars’ Hanns Eisler and Ernst Busch in the Spanish Civil War – Reading and discussion on 4 January 2025 at 2 p.m., Archive of the Academy of Arts, Pariser Platz

To mark the 75th anniversary of the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, works by Paul Dessau, Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Hanns Eisler and others will be performed on 17 December 2025 at 7 p.m. in the studio hall at Charlottenstraße 55 under the direction of Professor Birgitta Wollenweber.

SONGS AND POETRY
Hölderling settings by Eisler, Ullmann, Britten and others
Katrina Paula Felsberga (soprano), Julius Drake (piano), Burghart Klaußner (recitation)
1 December 2025, 7 p.m., Freie Akademie der Künste Hamburg

Autumn concert by the Hans Beimler Choir, conducted by Eisler expert Johannes C. Gall, together with the Morgenrot Choir on October 12, 2025, in Berlin

Georg Nigl, Nicholas Ofczarek and Vladimir Jurowski in ‘Die letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit?’ (The Last Days of Humanity?) with songs based on texts by Karl Kraus and music by Gustav Mahler and Hanns Eisler on 26 October 2025 from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the Vienna State Opera.

As part of Musica Nova, conducted by Steffen Schleiermacher, works by Hanns Eisler and Shasha Chen’s composition, written in Eisler’s birthplace in Leipzig, will be performed at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig on 15 October 2025. Finally, the Eisler Scholarship 2026 will be awarded and a composition by the scholarship holder will be performed.

A play developed by Milena Michalek based on the novella by Anna Seghers “Der Aufstand der Fischer von St. Barbara”. Eisler songs can be heard. Performances: 4.5., 6.6., 27.6.
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