Series of events on the rediscovery and rediscovery of the musician, draughtsman and letter writer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)
12 p.m. Welcome & introduction12:30 p.m. The incidental music "Antigone", "Oedipus auf Kolonos" and "Athalia" by FMB, transcribed for piano four hands, introduced by Marlene Weller14:30 pm: Lecture by Katharina Wesselmann, Professor of Classical Philology, Potsdam: Humanistic education in the Mendelssohn Bartholdy family4:30 pm: Musical city tour with Annette Melzer: Stations of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in Berlin. For more see 16.3.7 pm: Paphleis. A mock-hero poem by 12-year-old Felix Mendelssohn about his 7-year-old brother Paul, performed by the "Darstellendes Spiel" group of the Berlin Canisius Kolleg, directed by Jan Gursch-Büdenbender. Music by Fanny Hensel and FMB: Beatrice Calderon, violoncello; Marta Policinska, pianoTranslated with DeepL
Price info: Festival ticket (lectures, concerts, city tour): 35 €;