OMG Schubert

OMG Schubert are Konstantin Dupelius and Justus Wilcken, who have made it their mission to rethink and radically reinterpret song & music theatre as an art form, both compositionally and performatively. As multi-instrumentalists, singers, actors and composers, they get to the heart of old classics and recompose and stage their works across genres with electronics, synthesiser and electric guitar. In their first project du hast es so gewollt (at Funkhaus Berlin, Schauspiel Hannover, Hidalgo Festival Munich, among others), they dedicate themselves to an individual reinterpretation of Franz Schubert's songs.
The duo composed and staged their second programme as a music-theatrical production in summer 2020. WTF 1770 - Hölderlin//Beethoven is dedicated to the two jubilarians of 2020, interweaving Beethoven's music with texts by Hölderlin in their own compositions and staging music, video art and a fictional correspondence in a strict dramaturgy. Catchy pop songs, wild dubstep numbers and spherical sounds emerge from Beethoven's compositions; Hölderlin's texts serve as the basis for song structures and are expanded by contemporary texts (including Howl by Allen Ginsberg) as well as his own texts. The premiere of WTF 1770 - Hölderlin//Beethoven at the ITZ Tübingen on 06.06.2020 was the first premiere in Baden-Württemberg after Lockdown and became a great success with a fulminant press echo (among others Die Deutsche Bühne, SWR2, SWR4, Nachtkritik).

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