Kriegsalbum –  Was die neuen Heimkehrer nach Hause bringen

(waralbum – what the new homecomer are carrying home)

Germany since 1999 is a country contributing actively to wars. In „Kriegsalbum“ (Waralbum) from Lukas Matthaei, Milena Kipfmüller and Klaus Janek people coming home from wars – soldiers, journalists and doctors – tell their very personal stories about what they lived through. They let us have a glimpse in real scenary of military conflicts that in situ are much more confused and brutal than the “cleaned” pictures in everyday news. These experiences doesn´t have exclusivly an impact on their personal lives but as well on our culture. „Kriegsalbum“ gives us an audible picture of these peoples experiances and let the

m enter into an acoustic dialogue with the everyday sounds of Berlin.

Being an arts project the work doesn’t  inform only on a cognitive level, but seeks to put the spectator in a wider auditive place. The  spoken material becomes the source of music composition. The engagement with the topic brought us to abstract the content from the musicallity of the language and to use these qualities for the composition of a 3 movement fugue, where spoken words, fieldrecordings and original music material are the corresponding elements.

The structure and idea was/is to perform the piece live using the elements and ingredients

july 18th 2015 invitation at Hörspielsommer Leipzig,  below the picture of the live performance