Die Schatulle des David Josef Bach

Ilya Kabakov, The Man Who Flew into His Picture,
© Oliver Ottenschlaeger/ Sigmund Freud Foundation

From the Museum (translated from German):

With a multimedia lecture performance, Sigmund Freud's first practice on the mezzanine floor of Berggasse 19 is transformed into a soundscape spread over four rooms, those rooms with which David Josef Bach, one of the most important cultural promoters and cultural mediators in Social Democratic Red Vienna, was also well acquainted: as an early member of Freud's Psychological Wednesday Society, which gathered here almost every Wednesday evening in the years between 1902 and 1908. Like Freud, David Josef Bach fled Nazism for London, where he died in 1947. A few years ago, a casket was found in Bach's estate in England, which was presented to him by his artistic companions in 1924 for his 50th birthday in Vienna. It contains 88 birthday letters with artistic dedications in the form of compositions, poems and drawings, among others by Hanns Eisler, Hugo v. Hofmannsthal, Oskar Kokoschka, Lina Loos, Arthur Schnitzler, Arnold Schönberg, Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig and many others.

In an artistic-scientific approach, a selection of the letters will now be brought back to life and - embedded in a lecture introducing the life of David Josef Bach - placed in new contexts by means of live improvisation.

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With:

Dr. Christian Glanz, Lecture

Haruki Noda, Live Electronics

Lisa Hofmaninger, saxophone

Helene Glüxam, double bass

More information (in German): https://www.freud-museum.at/en/detail/die-schatulle-des-david-josef-bach-2