Grief and horror
Statement of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar on the situation in Israel
University President Prof. Anne-Kathrin Lindig comments on the current events in the Middle East as follows:
"The news reaching us from Israel fills us with grief and horror. As a university community, we feel for all the people who are suffering the consequences of the attack on the civilian population and are worried about families, friends and family.
The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar has close ties with the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance as well as the University of Haifa, not least through the annual Caravan Orchestra and Choir project, in which Israeli (Jewish and Arab) and German students in Haifa and Weimar participate together.
Through the professorship for the history of Jewish music at the Department of Musicology Weimar - Jena, the University assumes a special responsibility for researching and communicating Jewish culture.
The University of Music rejects all forms of terror and violence in the strongest possible terms. We resolutely oppose exclusion, hatred and anti-Semitism, which are becoming increasingly apparent throughout Germany in the wake of the terrorist attack.
We are actively committed to peaceful, humane coexistence and are thus following our task and tradition of peacefully uniting different confessions and nationalities and creating harmony.
We endorse the statements of the German Rectors' Conference and the DAAD."