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Nizza Thobi in concert at Stegen:
Songs Against Forgetting
STEGEN. - "Man´s
struggle against power is memory´s struggle aganist amnesia."
The Israeli singer
Nizza Thobi has taken up this fight , dedicating her life to it. Born at the
Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, she has lived for the past 25 years in Munich
– the city , that is, where Hitler´s political career began, and where,
during the 1972 Olympic Games, Israeli sportsmen were targeted by an Arab
terror attack.
On Saturday evening at
the Old Brewery, Thobi gave a moving concert against forgetting. Her first
record – mir leben ejbig –(forever we live) – came out as long ago as
1982. A collection of songs about the Jewish struggle for survival, it
recalled the Shoah: the systematic expulsion and extermination of Jews
during the Second World War. The songs, and poems set to music,
predominantly Yiddisch, were in many cases written by people who themselves
perished in the Holocaust – in Vilna, Lithuania, for example, where from
1941-1944 some 75,000 Jews were deported and murdered. In Yam Lied (
Yam Song ) Nizza Thobi sings, "I left behind those dearest to me / I left my
house / I entrusted myself to the sea / Carry me, sea, to my mother‘s
bosom."
Slides projected behind
the singer commemorated those who wrote such lines. And Nizza Thobi´s deep,
powerful voice lent its compelling testimony - to the woman cradling a child
bereft of its mother, to hopes of spring, a potent metaphor here for
survival; "Frilng ojf dajne fligl bloje / O nem majn Harz mit / Un gib es zu
majn glik" ("Spring, on your blue wings, /O take my heart with you / And
give it to my happiness").
In the second part of
the concert the link to present-day Israel was set up. " I was born in the
silk shirt of my mother tongues," she annocunced and sang, radiating joie
de vivre. Her homeland she finds best expressed in settings to music of
Hebrew poems by the Israelis poet Rachel who, in the Sea of Galilee, saw "
the shape of a violin". The 52-year-old singer recalled her own childhood
with a Ladino melody – Nani, Nani- a lullaby in the Spanish dialect of the
Sephardic Jews.
The outstanding acoustic
guitarist, Andreas Seifinger, accompanied the singer ...
Thomas Lochte
Monday 26.April 1999 Süddeutsche Zeitung
Art. in German:
Lieder gegen das Vergessen
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