Stolen Time – Silent film with music | zamus: early music festival 2026

Anna Reisener, Alma Stolte, Mirjam-Luise Münzel – cello and narration

The tiefsaits string trio accompanies Walther Ruttmann’s silent film *Berlin: Symphony of a Great City*, a film about 1920s Berlin. Added to this are Bach’s “Goldberg Variations”, performed with great flexibility in tempo and time, so that, in interaction with the film, timeless questions about our perception of time are explored.

Film “Berlin. A Symphony of the Big City ’ (Walther Ruttmann, Berlin 1927) as well as works by Domenico Gabrielli, Johann Sebastian Bach and literary quotations from Franz Hessel’s ‘Spazieren in Berlin’ (1929) and Kurt Tucholsky’s ‘Augen in der Großstadt’ (1930), plus a world premiere by Friedemann Stolte.

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Pre-concert talk at 6.10 pm at the Schnütgen Museum for both evening concerts

Single ticket: €22/€14

Combined ticket €29/€19 including Arcadia: Death in Paradise at the Schnütgen Museum (600 m away)

Plus booking fee

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