A date with Schoenberg
Austrian cultural heritage on a chessboard?
Friday,
September 13th
150th birthday, meeting & kick-off event for about 100 invited guests from many different worlds and heritages within the arts and sciences and other spheres of being and doing.
Speech on the fear of friday 13th, and a live music quartet.
Opening of the Coalition Chess Game – an oversized chessboard that will be played interactively under the guidance of a chess expert.
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Saturday,
September 14th
A tennis tournament with an artistic setting.
With music as the accompanying theme, with recitations by George Gershwin and Arnold Schönberg, who were enthusiastic tennis players, friends and both very important composers of the 20th century.
Information about the coalition chess game ->
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Contents of the project and the narrative
The project "The Schönberg Games" aims to perform a very special kind of narrative, not a programmed festival with a purely musical program, nor just a narrative about Schönberg, but a woven, special and uniquely designed day of content, partivipatory, inclusive, inspirational.
Many contributors enrich the event with their presence and stories from their experiences, or stories from Schönberg's biography, the history of flight, immigration, the search for recognition and the search to find space for the implementation of his ideas and to categorically adhere to them.
The presentation of the many facets of his biography through the narration of his fate with the reflection of the fates of many other people. E.g. of Käthe Leichter among many others. In addition to the stories, there will be musical performances, sporting installations (a performative tennis game) and the introduction and playing of the coalition chess conceived by Schönberg.
Arnold Schönberg was also an enthusiastic chess player and inventor, among other things he invented the coalition chess game. A game of chess in which the game is played from four sides instead of two.
An oversized, interactive coalition chessboard will be set up in the park. It functions as a stage and as an inclusive, participatory play in public space. In addition, each of the black boxes has a QR code, each filled with different stories and music. This can be compared to an exhibition, 50 stories, music, narratives, filled with a wide variety of contents give a multifaceted impression on the topic and reflect Schönberg's rich interests and life paths.
The game is explained through moderation and passers-by are invited to play.
"The Schönberg Games" wants to create very concrete impressions and give them away, to create images that you won't forget, to create an atmosphere that is so playful that even passers-by who don't have an affinity for Schönberg get involved in learning, hearing or participating in the stations. In addition, it is intended to establish a connection to Schoenberg's life, to address the significance of his work, to shed light on his fate as a Jew during National Socialism and as an emigrant, and to convey his influence to this day.
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