Through the Door into the Open
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| free admission |
| no ticket required |
| German |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Belongs to: Transform! |
Stephan Krawczyk, a trained musician and freelance writer, accompanies himself in his concert reading Durch die Tür ins Freie with guitar, Jew’s harp and a 117-year-old bandoneon. Alternately singing and reading from his texts, he lets the audience participate in the small and big stories of everyday life with his haunting voice and stylistically diverse music.
Krawczyk, a symbolic figure of the civil rights movement in East Germany, inspires the audience with his language – sometimes cheeky, sometimes critical, but always committed to the truth. Let yourself be surprised and taken along on Krawczyk’s journey, which he set out on 40 years ago.
Stefan Krawczyk
was born on New Year’s Eve 1955 in Weida, Thuringia. After graduating from high school and studying concert guitar at the Franz Liszt Academy in Weimar, he has been a freelance singer since 1980. In 1981, he won the National Chanson Competition of the GDR and moved to Berlin in 1984. In the same year he began to write, and the following year he was banned from his profession. Together with Freya Klier, he performs in churches and becomes a symbolic figure of the GDR citizens’ movement. On 17 January 1988, the Stasi arrested the opposition artist and deported him to the West 16 days later.
In the same year, now in West Berlin, Krawczyk founded the citizens’ initiative “CFC Stop! Every day counts”. Concert tours take him through German-speaking Western Europe, to North America, France, Spain and Italy. He writes the book SCHÖNE WUNDE WELT, which is published in the year of reunification.
In addition to his ongoing concert activities, he writes his first novel Das irdische Kind, which is published in 1996. Since then, various publications in the musical and literary field, travelling, tours.