2024-08-07 10:21:04
Ingrid Caven is a German diva. This singer and actress just released a new record. Here he talks about the books of his life. Heine, Enzensberger and Jean-Jacques Schuhl played an important role.
“Heidschi Bumbeidschi – 16 moments de ma vie” is the title of Ingrid Caven’s new record. It is a live performance in which the singer and actor presents 16 moments of his life with his own compositions and songs. The Spanish director, Albert Serra, convinced him to do this work. So, Caven said over thyme tea and cookies in his Paris apartment, he wrote chansons and “composed little melodies, some simple harmonies from the European tradition, in trios.” He was interested in “harmonizing the songs with the electronic experimental music of the band Albert Serra Molforts.” The focus of two worlds and two generations on very different musical elements. “
Caven, born in Saarbrücken in 1938, appeared in several films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and was married to the German actress for a time. With his artistic style, which combined French chanson with German music, Caven achieved a remarkable career, especially in France. You can read about them in the book “Confusion? Listen, sing” (Kampa) read everything. Caven was honored with a five-day retreat in Marseille at the end of June, and Vienna will honor him in the fall.
Heinrich Heine: The Lore-Ley
I know “The Lore-Ley”, a poem by Heinrich Heine, by heart. I used part of it in my first speech on my new record. However, I write songs in French. The poem is like an epic: the singer, inspired by the music of Lore-Ley, looks up to io and forgets to save her husband by the stones. The sound of sirens is dangerous because they pull ships out of their way. The ships are not focused on the risk and difficulty of transporting their engines to their destination.
Franz Kafka: In the penal colony
In the 1995 edition by Klaus Wagenbach there are materials from the time when this masterpiece was created, which in my opinion still tells the burning things and the fast things today. Right from the beginning you know that with this power this is possible only in poetic form. The first sentence is: “It is an important tool.” And of course I also like “Josefine, the Singer or the Rat People,” a story Kafka wrote shortly before his death. It’s about a singer who squeaks all the way up under the roof and captivates the audience. You don’t know if he’s a good singer at all, but there’s something fascinating about him.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Josefine and me. A story
“Not to be confused with ‘Ingrid and I’,” he wrote to me in an exclusive story published in 2006, which involved us German, but not only. It is about a singer named Josefine, who was a star during the last World War, and who travels around the world with her young Jewish manager Fryda. It was normal for Josefine to protect this girl. After the war, the singer was poor. Fryda lives in the basement and, without the singer’s knowledge, maintains the ruined village with financial resources from repairs. In the end, the singer died, Fryda lost the house and sat alone in front of the house with a small bag, next to him a gramophone on which he, a lover of German art, wanted to listen to opera recordings over and over again. again. The book was to be made into a film by Werner Schroeter. Wim Wenders deserves to be given the lead production guarantee. Unfortunately nothing more is available.
Philip Roth: Word Shop
In this book, Roth describes the work of fellow authors such as Aharon Appelfeld, Isaac B. Singer, Milan Kundera and Saul Bellow as well. It is no coincidence that the French title means “Let’s talk about jobs”. Roth is a writer who reports on the work of others with a keen but also sensitive eye; you have those because of those.
Andy Warhol: Understanding Andy Warhol from A to B and back
Above all, I remember that he also said: “Sex is for children.” That’s Warhol, it’s good … That’s a philosophy that leads to the simple to the simple, without much distortion as the art of reproductions. It is interesting that with our way of thinking about freedom, we are already reborn in our thinking. For example, I can’t see myself as a surprise, except maybe if at some point – as the film director Daniel Schmid said – I can go into my own intimacy and have the ability to say something and make other people think . he goes about it. I don’t know exactly how to do it myself. They are ways that cannot say anything without basic features and forms. This cannot happen in a tangle or an entire ocean system. If you want to say something, you are forced to formulate and act individually.
Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus spake Zarathustra
Everyone knows that now! The most important thing for me about this work is that Nietzsche, who was always a little sick, did not forget his love for himself and could still say: Forget me! This is a trait that allows you to invest and show a lot of energy.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger: A handful of anecdotes
In his stories, be it “Second Sorrow” or “First Sorrow”, he never forgets the end, which is any price from something, from everything. There is something about Enzensberger that has always enticed me to live a “practical utopia”. Do not postpone utopia until the afterlife or the future, but do something every day that is related to the utopian desire, if possible. It is very good for that, especially poems and stories. Just like Jean Jacques (writer JJ Schuhl, contributor Ingrid Caven, editor’s note) He said: “He is someone who always does a little cleaning in his office.”
Hans Kilian: Consciousness is lost
Of course, that continues with me because Hans Kilian, who is a scientist, wrote the last version at Elmau Camp, where he also invited me. I already know Professor Kilian from studying at the University of Munich. Then I was in the analysis with him, which was stopped because he was in it seduction fell from me and so I had to do another analysis. For a while I am your mother, if you will.
Jean-Jacques Schuhl: The Apparitions
Jean-Jacques Schuhl (this too The author of the novel called “Ingrid Caven”, i.e. Red.) most recently published “Les Apparitions”. It starts with: Person of the Year – it’s you. It is about the injections of blood, which is related with the poetic injections of other creatures and other forms of life, through which one’s life can not only be affected but also changed. Jean-Jacques Schuhl wrote the book after suffering severe anemia (Blood, editor). He was rescued at the last minute and was in the hospital for a long time.
These are terrible fears, because when you live together for a long time and do different jobs at the same level, you are united at all levels, which has to do not only with feelings, but with work. That cannot be easily changed, not even by love. It is more, it is a necessity of life. The fear of being alone at all levels is great. Thank God you wrote a new book.
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