© Laurence Chaperon, via IKG Vienna

From the Jewish Community Vienna (translated):

Life Melodies with Iris Berben

The Jewish Community Vienna, together with the German Embassy, invites you to a very special literary-musical evening entitled “Lebensmelodien” in the Mozart Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus. With Iris Berben, Nur Ben Shalom and the Nimrod Ensemble.

The project Lebensmelodien (Melodies of Life) presents Jewish melodies from the Holocaust era, most of which have been forgotten. The aim is to bring them back to life and into the spotlight. Lebensmelodien are musical works that were composed, played and sung between 1933 and 1945. Behind them lie the life stories of Jewish destinies – people who had dreams, desires and unique talents and now live on in these melodies. The music helped them to survive in the ghettos and camps – or to bid farewell to this world. Every melody has its own story to tell, every Lebensmelodie is tied to a specific person or community – created in the most inhumane situations of persecution and murder, when music offered comfort and hope.

Iris Berben lends her voice to the victims of National Socialism, while she is accompanied by clarinetist and founder of the life melodies Nur Ben Shalom and the 8-piece Nimrod Ensemble.

Immerse yourself in a moving musical journey that brings the past to life.

With the kind support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Vienna, the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and the Future Fund of the Republic of Austria.