"Every seven years" - transmigration and spirituality in the work of Mascha Kaléko
Recitation, lecture and music
with
Dr Julia Meyer, Dresden
Director of the Freiberg University Library, dissertation "Two souls live, ah, in me for rent - stagings of authorship in the work of Mascha Kaléko"
Boris Schwiebert, Dresden
works as a voice-over artist for film and television and can currently be seen in productions at the Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg.
Jörg Kandl, Dresden
works as a musician and composer for various theatres. As a music teacher, he teaches at music schools and directs various ensembles.
As part of "Tacheles 2026 - Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony" and the "History of citizens" project.
As a German-Jewish poet, Mascha Kaléko (1907-1975) combines satirical and political elements in her poems with a deep spirituality of Jewish Hasidism that still speaks to many people's hearts today. With her characteristic mixture of irony and humour, political acuity and melancholy, she won the hearts of audiences on the Berlin cabaret stages of the early 1930s.
Mascha Kaléko's poems also reflect ageing, transience, melancholy reflections on life and the loneliness she herself experienced, particularly in exile. With her observations on generational conflicts, which are often socially critical but never bitter and instead full of subtle self-irony, she herself becomes a contemporary witness in the exhibition.
Well-known poems such as "Every Seven Years" as well as lesser-known excerpts from the letters will be recited, musically staged and expertly commented on.
This event is taking place in cooperation with the Agricolaforum Chemnitz, Kulturkirche 2025 and the Evangelische Akademie Sachsen and is part of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 programme as well as within the framework of "Tacheles 2026 - Year of Jewish Culture in Saxony" and the "History of citizens" project.
