Adolf Wölfli and the music
Adolf Wölfli was born 150 years ago. To mark the occasion, the Wölfli&Musik association is organizing a series of concerts and readings in Bern. Wölfli will also be brought to life on stage in a musical theater.
The Wölfli&Musik association was founded in 2012 with the aim of supporting cultural projects with a musical connection to Adolf Wölfli and his life's work. To date, the association has commissioned a composition every year, for example to Jost Meier (2012) and Christian Henking (2013). Several textual-musical events are now planned to mark the 150th anniversary of the artist's birth. Further compositions have been commissioned and a composition competition for students at music academies has been held.
Under the title 150Wölfli the weekends from August 29 to 31 and October 3 and 4 will be dedicated to the "Musik-Diräkthor" and "Riesen-Theaat'r/Diräktohr", as Wölfli called himself. Wölfli's place of residence, the former cantonal insane asylum Waldau and today's Psychiatric University Hospital, will be included as a venue. Other venues include the Kunsthalle and the Dampfzentrale Bern. The program includes a twelve-hour reading from Wölfli's From the cradle to the grave, a homage to Wölfli for children, the world premiere of the prize-winning pieces from the university competition, further world premieres by Kjell Keller, Roland Moser and Daniel Glaus. For the music theater The omnipotence tube was composed by Helena Winkelman, who is also the musical director. Steamboat Switzerland performs and Meret Matter directs.
Further information about the musician Wölfli and a detailed program: www.150woelfli.ch
