HELMUT OEHRING
2024*2025 PARIS * TAIPEH * CHICAGO * LOS ANGELES * BERLIN * AMSTERDAM * ROTTERDAM * DRESDEN * WEIMAR * FRANKFURT A.M. * STUTTGART * KARLSRUHE * BASEL * METZ * STRASBOURG *NANTES * SZCZEZIN * ZAGREB *
NEW PRODUCTION
AshenMOON or The Fairy Queen
opera using music of Henry Purcell
with texts by William Shakespeare + Adalbert Stifter + Heinrich Heine + Helmut Oehring
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Wördemann
audioconception+production: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
NEW ON CD
A production of
Grammy winner John Schneider +
Grammy nomminé Aron Kallay
MicroFest Records Los Angeles
The silence falls
Song from the music theatre
AGOTA? The Analphabet (yesterday / somewhere)
on texts by Ágota Kristóf
Stacey Fraser soprano
Aron Kallay piano
Brightwork Ensemble
A production of Deutschlandfunk Kultur
+ Rondeau Production
Melencolia I
on the copperfield engraving f the same name
of Albrecht Duerer + poems of Heinrich Heine
oiginal version for oboe / voc
+ prepared piano / voc
Burkhard Glaetzner oboe / voc
Hansjacob Staemmler piano / voc
AKTUAL WORK CYCLES
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA)
audiovisual work cycle on Dante Alighieri + Sandro Botticelli
circles of hell in Sandro Boticelli's Mappa dell'Inferno
excerpts from [iɱˈfɛrno] (aus: MAPPA) collective lovemusic 25 November 2022 Arsenal de Metz
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) I Contrapasso I – V
(to: Wladimir Putin / Sergej Lawrow)
original version for bass flute + bass clarinet + violoncello + e-guitar + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
UA 2022 collective lovemusic * Klangwerkstatt Berlin * Arsenal de Metz 2023 Conservatório de Música de Coimbra / Portugal * la musica Strasbourg * Gare du Nord Basel 2024 Le Lieu Unique Nantes
version for violin + violoncello + bass flute + bass clarinet + percussion + prepared piano / keyboard + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
version for double bass + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024/25 Aleksander Gabryś
version for violin + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
version for violoncello + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
version for bass clarinet + violoncello + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024/25 Fie Schouten u.a. * Amsterdam * Rotterdam
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) II Contrapasso VI – VIII
(to: Patriarch Kyrill I / Wladimir Michailowitch Gunjajew + Archpriest Andrej Jurjewitch Tkachev)
original version for three (contra)bass clarinets + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024 Sabina Matthus-Bébié + Horia Dumitrache + Ingólfur Vilhjálmsson + Helmut Oehring
Weimar Spring Festival for New Music
[iɱˈfɛrno] (from: MAPPA) III Contrapasso IX – XIII
(tp: Sergej Coushugetowitsh Shoigu + Andrej Remowitsch Beloussow)
original version for oboe / English horn + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp / CD production 2024 Antje Thierbach
version for flute / bass flute + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp n.n.
Hagen Klennert
Magere Hein in het gezelschap van twee Tinsel Stallions (Godfather Death accompanied by two Lamettastallions
GraphicPhotoCollage 2022
GOYA I – V
audiovisual work cycle on Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
Three Graphics / ink on paper (2008) by Hagen Klennert on GOYA II Yo lo vi
GOYA I
on Les Desastres de la Guerra by Françisco de Goya
using music of Ludwig van Beethoven
for orchestra
wp 2007 * SWR Symphony Orchestra * conductor: Rupert Huber * Donaueschingen Music Days
GOYA II Yo lo vi
memoratorio on drawings by Françisco de Goya and texts of Hermann Kesten + Fédérico Garçia Lorca using music of Manuel de Falla + Hans Werner Henze
for vocalist / double bassist + boy soprano + electric guitar + Spanish guitar
+ male signsoloist + mixed choir + large orchestra + live electronics
idea + composition: Helmut Oehring
conception + libretto: Stefanie Woerdemann
audioconception + -produktion: Torsten Ottersberg/GOGH s.m.p.
commissioned by German Symphonic Orchestra
wp 2008 German Symphony Orchester + Broadcasting Choir Berlin + Matthias Bauer + Jörg Wilkendorf + Daniel Göritz * conductor: Ingo Metzmacher * Philharmonie Berlin
GOYA III Veía la mano, pero como alelado
on Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartet No 14 c sharp minor op. 131
for 18 string instruments
UA 2014 Ensemble Resonanz * Beethovenfest Bonn / Alte Oper Frankfurt am Main / Laeiszhalle Hamburg
GOYA IV
auf Françisco de Goyas späte Zeichnungen und Ludwig van Beethovens späte Streichquartette
for string quartet + SignMimoChoreography
IN PLANNING / wp n.n.
GOYA V
multimedia music drama on a dokufictional dialogue in text+image+sound between Françisco de Goya + Ludwig van Beethoven
for signlanguage soloists + vocalists + dancers + SignMimoChoreography + mixed choir + orchestra / large ensemble + multichannel audio + multichannel video
in dialogue with refuguees
IN PLANNING / WP n.n.
CHANT OF A WAR PIMP graphic / ink on paper (2015) by Hagen Klennert
nicht ERSTARREN
audiovisual work cycle
nicht ERSTARREN I (fāId)
original version for electric guitar + keyboard / prepared piano + drumset
wp 2023 Pony Says * ZeitGenuss Festival Karlsruhe * Art Foundation Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart
26 January 2025
release debut album (vinyl + digital)
Pony Says
Ghost Notes Records
nicht ERSTARREN II
original version for instrumental soliist + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2024 Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring * Academy of Arts Berlin
Pony Says * Felix Nagl + Lucas Gerin + Thilo Ruck
foto copyright: Philip Mallmann
nicht ERSTARREN III (χώρος / CHORÓS)
planned version for percussion + choir + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
Dominic Oelze + Helmut Oehring
excerpts of nicht ERSTARREN II Manos Tsangaris + Helmut Oehring 17 July 2024 Academy of Arts Berlin
EYE / TONGUE
audiovisual duo
original version for double bass clarinet + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2020 Paul Kreitz + Helmut Oerhing * Staatsoper Stuttgart
version für bass flute + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2023 Ursula Weiler * Ensemble Quillo * Rofinpark Eberswalde
premiere France + Taiwan 2024 Mu-Xuan Lin * Pavillon de la Sirène Paris * Players Theatre of the National Taiwan University Taipeh
EURYDIKE?
audiovisual work cycle on Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
EURYDIKE? vol. 1
AudioVideoInstallation + Performance fOr a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice
composition + direction + camera + film editing: Helmut Oehring
dramaturgy + co-director + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
audio production + camera + film editing + sound direction: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
wp 2019 Kassandra Wedel + Emily Yabe + Mia Carla Oehring * Tonlagen festival HELLERAU Dresden * SPOR festival Århus * Kontraklang festival of the Academy of Arts Berlin
EURYDIKE? vol. 2
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + a violonist/dancer/voice + a guitarist/dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as DanceMusicVideoInstallation
for 3 female dancers + violin soloist + 3 accordion soloists + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + SignMimoChoreography + direction + camera: Helmut Oehring
audio+video production + sound direction + film editing: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH smp
text book + dramaturgy + photography: Stefanie Wördemann
release FILM 2023 Katja Erfurth + Kassandra Wedel + Mia Carla Oehring + Florian Mayer + Felix Kroll + Silke Lange + Susanne Stock * HELLERAU Dresden in collaboration with male prisoners and choir of prison Dresden
BEETHOVEN? The redemptive Fault
MusicFilmDanceDrama
original version as audiovisual DanceRequiem
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
wp n.n.
version as MusicFilmDanceDrama
for a deafmute dancer/voice + instrumental ensemble + 2ChannelVideo + 10.2ChannelAudio
idea + composition + choreography + direction + camera + cut: Helmut Oehring
textbook + filmscript + dramaturgy + edition: Stefanie Wördemann
audio+video-produktion + camera + cut: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.
FILM RELEASE 2022 bthvn2020 / WDR3 * Kassandra Wedel + Ensemble Musikfabrik
ACTUAL CONCERT READING
ConcertReading To see the world with different ears Helmut Oehring + Ensemble Quillo 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers
TO SEE THE WORLD WITH DIFFERENT EARS
ConcertReading
with texts from Helmut Oehring's autobiography WITH DIFFERENT EYES
and his new AssemblyNovel + Screenplay ALEXander
compositions for solo to sextet
Ensemble Quillo
bass flute: Ursula Weiler
violin: Julia Yoo Soon Gröning
violoncello: Luise Rau
accordion: Felix Kroll
concert guitar: Daniel Göritz
voice + guitar + SignMimoPerformance: Helmut Oehring
κάθαρσι / KATHARSIS III Julia Yoo Soon Gröning + Helmut Oehring 12 October 2024 ConcertReading 20 Years Quillo - Happy Birthday
foto copyright: Tom Schweers !
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Warm Summer Sun and other songs
on texts by Marc Twain + Helmut Oehring et.al.
for soprano + violin
wp 2025/26 Stacey Frazer * Los Angeles
Seven Songs
on texts by William Shakespeare + David Foster Wallace + Helmut Oehring
for mezzosoprano + violin + audioplay + SignMimoChoreography
wp 2025/26 Chemnitz
FEAR (Responsorium)
szenic-oratoric PASSION
using music of Johann Sebastian Bach
for narrator + countertenor + boy soprano + instrumental-vocal soloists
+ female choir (hearing + nonhearing) + SignMimoChoreography + dancers
+ orchestra + iive elektronics
wp nn.n.
WANDERER (EastWestSouthNorth)
on works of Alfred Doeblin + Johannes Theodor Baargeld
and autobiographic documents of the contributors
for double bassist / narrator / performer + instrumental+vocal soloists / quintet + SignMimoChoreography
for Aleksander Gabryś + Ensemble Quillo in an artistic encounter
with Polish musicians + audio+video artists
commissioned by + in collaboration with Pomerania e.V.
wp 2025/26 Szczecin/Poland
Without title (Beetles) 1920
Graphic by Johannes Theodor Baargeld
NEW ON NETFLIX
LULLABY
Johann Feindt + Tamara Trampe director
Johann Feindt + Jule Cramer camera
Stephan Krumbiegel editor
with: Helmut Oehring + Detlef Jablonski
+ Apti Bisultanov a.o.
2010 zero one film a coproduction with ZDF + ARTE
