Offene Fenster, 2022

Pogo Bar with Verena Buttmann, Klosterruine × KW, Berlin

The evening program was based on poems written by East German youth between 1965 and 1989 and collected by author and publicist Edwin Kratschmer in the nine-volume series Offene Fenster. We invited some of the original authors to read their poems again decades later, accompanied by newly composed music by Verena Buttmann and me. The program also included a concert by the teenage punk band JeDi.

Starting point for the evening program were poems by GDR youths from 1965 - 1989, which the author and publicist Edwin Kratschmer collected and published in nine volumes under the title "Offene Fenster". We invited the original authors to read their poems again 60 years later and accompanied the reading with specially composed music by Verena Buttmann and me. We also invited the teenage punk band JeDi to give a concert.