Sound of the Stumbling Stones
Public rehearsal for the commemoration ceremony on 9 November with Yiddish song
All interested parties are cordially invited to sing along: The project "Sound of the Stumbling Stones" invites you to a public rehearsal on Tuesday, 24 October at 7:30 pm in the Am Palais hall of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar. Among other things, the choir will rehearse the Yiddish song "Dos Kelbl" in preparation for the commemorative event "Sound of the Stolpersteine" on 9 November. The current director of the university choir, Franziska Fuchs, will be in charge.
On 9 November 2023, the persecuted Jews who were driven to their deaths will be commemorated with musical contributions at various Stumbling Stones in Weimar. Inspired by the Jena project of the same name and initiated by the Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der Demokratie-Geschichte (GEDG) in cooperation with the University of Music FRANZ LISZT, choirs and music groups will shape the commemoration.
The "Sound of the Stumbling Stones" will kick off on Thursday, 9 November at 4:30 pm at the Marstall. The decentralised commemoration at the Stolpersteine will take place at 5:00 pm. At 5:30 pm, all choirs will gather at the theatre forecourt. There, after a speech, the Yiddish song "Dos Kelbl" will be sung together.
Weimar's history is steeped in and marked by the deeds of the National Socialists from the 1920s to the 1940s. In 1937, the Buchenwald concentration camp was built not far from the city on the Ettersberg: at the time, one of the largest concentration camps in Germany, where around 56,000 people were murdered.
Today, 46 Stumbling Stones have been laid in the city to commemorate the Jews of Weimar who were persecuted and driven to their deaths. The Stolpersteine are a decentralised memorial by the artist Gunter Demnig that is now in use throughout Europe. The brass-coloured stones set into the ground have been commemorating the victims of National Socialism in front of their former homes since 1992. New stones are added to the memorial every year.
In 2017, a musical commemoration took place for the first time in Jena under the name "The Sound of the Stumbling Stones" at various Stumbling Stones in the city. In the meantime, the Sound of the Stumbling Stones has become a cross-location project, which this year will also take place in Naumburg and Bad Köstritz in addition to Jena and Weimar.
For more information about the project, please visit the GEDG homepage: https://gedg.org/vielstimmiges-gedenken/
[23 October 2023]