Die letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit?

Georg Nigl | Nicholas Ofczarek | Markus Hinterhäuser

Karl Kraus’ unplayable play The Last Days of Mankind becomes a musical
reading with piano and singing.

For Georg Nigl, the art song should always negotiate the contradictions and
danger zones of our time. Together with Nicholas Ofczarek and
Markus Hinterhäuser, he embarks on the
adventure of Karl Kraus’ texts with the music of Gustav Mahler and Hanns
Eisler in Die letzten Tage der Menschlichkeit?, the creations of three artists who, over a hundred years ago, viewed the
everyday life of war and its consequences for the individual as if under a
burning glass. The ruthlessness of their gaze still makes one
shiver today …