2012, ca. 45′

Instrumentation: 6 Singer: 2 Sopr., 1 Mezzo-Sopr., 1 Ten., 1 Bar., 1 Bass.; 6 Instruments: 1 Fl., 1 Sax.(S/A/B), 1 Accord., 1 Perc., 1 elec. guit. & 1 vcl.
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UA: 21. January 2012, Festival Ultraschall Berlin & 22. January 2012, Stuttgart; Neue VocalSolisten Stuttgart & Ensemble 2E2M, cond. Georges-Elie Octors.

Program note:

How can one live after all this, whether one is the son of a victim or the son of a perpetrator? Could anyone, after all, wish to ask for forgiveness? And in whose name? And to whom? Could anyone, after all, allow themselves to forgive, or, on the contrary, never forgive? And to whom? And in whose name?

It is from an exchange of letters between Wiard Raveling, a young German college professor, and the French philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch, who worked on the moral question of forgiveness but paradoxically maintained an irrevocable stance against Germany, as well as from various positions taken by Jean Améry, Eva Kor, Albert Camus, Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, and others, that this “great theater of forgiveness” will play out, without a definitive answer.

Detailed program text (in German, Elisa Primavera-Lévy)

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