2021

A House of Call - Materialausgabe

for A House of Call - my Imaginary Notebook
Ein Buch zum Konzert oder ein Konzert zum Buch?

English translation in preparation.
Softcover, 16 x 24 cm, 140 Seiten, 9,00 € * inkl. MwSt.
Mit 49 Farb- u. 30 S/W-Abbildungen
ISBN: 978-3-95808-312-7
neofelis, Berlin

A House of Call © Astrid Ackermann / Berliner Festspiele
A House of Call © Astrid Ackermann / Berliner Festspiele

A House of Call and Liberté d'action at Musikfest Berlin

On August 30th the new cycle for orchestra A House of Call opened the Musikfest in Berlin Philharmony. An enthusiastic audience and music critics celebrated it as a "magnificent new work" (Financial times), "a triumphal world premiere" (Tagesspiegel) or as "Goebbels' most mature and perfect masterpiece" (SZ). see reviews
More performances in September can be attended in Cologne, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich.
Here an interview by Winrich Hopp and Heiner Goebbels on A House of Call.
Just a few days later this success will be followed by two performances of Liberté d'action at Haus des Rundfunks (RBB).

Liberté d'action © Helge Krückeberg
Liberté d'action © Helge Krückeberg

Liberté d'action succesfully opened Vienna Festwochen and Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen

Two important European Festivals for contemporary music and performing arts opened their 2021 program with the new creation by Heiner Goebbels Liberté d'action. Kunstfestspiele Hannover Herrenhausen started on May 27th open air, Vienna Festwochen started on June 3rd in Museumsquartier with a large echo in the media on Liberté d'action.

YouTube: KunstFestSpiele Talk - Friederike Westerhaus im Gespräch mit Heiner Goebbels

© GEMA
© GEMA
© GEMA
© GEMA

GEMA Musikautorenpreis 2021

Heiner Goebbels was awarded the GEMA Musikautorenpreis 2021 - in the category Music Theatre

Eraritjaritjaka: Vingt spectacles indispensables pour un XXIe siècle sous tension

Heiner Goebbels Eraritjaritjaka - musée de phrases with André Wilms is among the 20 shows of the 21st century - after a survey by Swiss daily Newspaper "Le Temps" asking 45 journalists, critics, theatre directors and theatre studies experts for their personal 'pantheon'.

Liberté d'action © Helge Krückeberg
Liberté d'action © Helge Krückeberg

News & New works

"Gegenwärtig lebe ich allein" - new 'Hörstück' / radiopiece by Heiner Goebbels with texts by Henri MIchaux, coproduced by SWR and DLF, will be broadcasted in January 2021. Worldpremiere SWR2 January 7th, DLF January 13th.

Liberté d'action - new theatre production / staged concert by Heiner Goebbels - will be premiered in May 2021.

A House of Call - new cycle for large orchestra by Heiner Goebbels, composed for Ensemble Modern Orchestra and conductor Vimbayi Kaziboni, was orginally ready to be premiered in fall 2020 at Berlin Philharmony, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Philharmony Cologne, Festival Wien Modern, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and musica viva Munich. All this had to be moved to the autumn 2021.

New edition of the Anthology Ästhetik der Abwesenheit by Heiner Goebbels, including several new texts, lectures and interviews is out now!
Verlag Theater der Zeit, December 2020