2022
Invitation to the reading on 18.11.2022
Invitation to a reading from the book "mondhase an mondfisch".
18.11.2022 Public library Düsseldorf / Wersten, Liebfrauenstraße 1,
at 7 pm
CLARA & ROBERT SCHUMANN - WITH A DIFFERENCE!
DÜSSELDUO WITH JOHANNA HANSEN AND ROSEMARIE MARSCHNER
A music-loving lyricist who can also paint is given a score by Robert Schumann and turns it into a new work of art. That is the story of the long poem "Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish" by Johanna Hansen. The lyricist has used the original score as a painting ground for images inspired by the "Kinderszenen", a composition by Robert Schumann. Her poem is about closeness, distance and the love between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Johana Hansen, born in Kalkar/Lower Rhine, lives as a painter and author in Düsseldorf. She has co-edited the literary magazine WORTSCHAU since 2013.
Clara Schuman is the focus of the novel "Clara Schumann - Daughter of Music" by Rosemarie Marschner: From the very beginning, her marriage to Robert is in a constant state of ups and downs. Clara is not content with her role as mother of eight children; her musical career is just as important to her. But her popularity and the many concert tours are not met with great joy by her famous ... When Clara Schumann dies at the age of 76 - 40 years after her husband - almost the entire 19th century is reflected in her life. Rosemarie Marschner lives as a freelance journalist and author with her family in Düsseldorf. She has published numerous novels, including the bestsellers "The Book Room" and "The Girl at the Piano". Moderation: Maren Jungclaus, Literaturbüro NRW
The Literaturbüro NRW in cooperation with the Stadtbücherei Wersten
18.11.2022 Public library Düsseldorf / Wersten, Liebfrauenstraße 1,
at 7 pm
CLARA & ROBERT SCHUMANN - WITH A DIFFERENCE!
DÜSSELDUO WITH JOHANNA HANSEN AND ROSEMARIE MARSCHNER
A music-loving lyricist who can also paint is given a score by Robert Schumann and turns it into a new work of art. That is the story of the long poem "Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish" by Johanna Hansen. The lyricist has used the original score as a painting ground for images inspired by the "Kinderszenen", a composition by Robert Schumann. Her poem is about closeness, distance and the love between Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck. Johana Hansen, born in Kalkar/Lower Rhine, lives as a painter and author in Düsseldorf. She has co-edited the literary magazine WORTSCHAU since 2013.
Clara Schuman is the focus of the novel "Clara Schumann - Daughter of Music" by Rosemarie Marschner: From the very beginning, her marriage to Robert is in a constant state of ups and downs. Clara is not content with her role as mother of eight children; her musical career is just as important to her. But her popularity and the many concert tours are not met with great joy by her famous ... When Clara Schumann dies at the age of 76 - 40 years after her husband - almost the entire 19th century is reflected in her life. Rosemarie Marschner lives as a freelance journalist and author with her family in Düsseldorf. She has published numerous novels, including the bestsellers "The Book Room" and "The Girl at the Piano". Moderation: Maren Jungclaus, Literaturbüro NRW
The Literaturbüro NRW in cooperation with the Stadtbücherei Wersten
Karl-Hans Möller has reflected on my book "Mondhase an Mondfisch" on the website of the Musikverein Düsseldorf.
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"BUTTERFLY FRAGMENTS"
FRIDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2022 FROM 19:00 TO 22:00
"FALTERFRAGMENTE" - Poetry evening with Franziska Beyer-Lallauret (poetry) & Johanna Hansen (illustration).
Schacher - Space for Art Breitscheidstraße 48, Stuttgart www.galerie-schacher.de
"FALTERFRAGMENTE" - Poetry evening with Franziska Beyer-Lallauret (poetry) & Johanna Hansen (illustration).
Schacher - Space for Art Breitscheidstraße 48, Stuttgart www.galerie-schacher.de
Stay at the Cité International des Arts, Paris, September / Oktober
Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish :: Poetry meets Painting
A score by Robert Schumann
Fragments from the correspondence of
Clara and Robert Schumann
Poetry and painting by Johanna Hansen
Fragments from the correspondence of
Clara and Robert Schumann
Poetry and painting by Johanna Hansen
by Stefan Hölscher :: Signaturen Magazin
Stefan Hölscher
Johanna Hansen: Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish. Art book. Poetry and painting by Johanna Hansen, with a score by Robert Schumann and fragments from the correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann. Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße (Wortschau Verlag) 2022. 92 pages. 69,00 Euro.
Sehnsuchts-Trialog
A book is something to read. A book is something to look at. A book is something to touch. A book is something that opens up to us and closes again, that gives us something tangible to hold and something intangible to ponder and puzzle over. Is a book something that sounds?
Johanna Hansen's "Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish" contains excerpts of scores from the "Kinderszenen" and other piano pieces by Robert Schumann in the original size of an old edition of these pieces from a flea market that fell into the artist's hands. Only very few of the people who go through the opulently illustrated book-sized work page by page are able to make these piano passages sound mentally. And yet something happens to the notes in this book, so that a kind of music emerges.
Painted over parts of the score excerpts are images - often in haunting reds, blues and blacks - of a male and, more often, a female figure: sometimes just a head or part of one, sometimes a body, sometimes a confluence of human and animal form.
Johanna Hansen's images and the long poem that fills the middle section of the book resonate with the love story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, which was marked by tough obstacles. Excerpts from correspondence between the two form the sub-chapter headings of the poem, as it were. The whole - text as well as score - is interwoven with those haunting images that are at once powerfully moving and melancholy, almost childishly simple and abstractly expressive, softly flowing and strikingly contoured. Very much like the music of Robert Schumann.
The book, designed by Claudia Linnhoff and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, is a work of synaesthesia: the combination of letter quotation, poem, picture and musical score creates in their interplay something that moves our senses multimodally, so that even for those who cannot read music, the pages of the book make something in us vibrate and sound, creating a kind of pictorial sound poetry.
Moon rabbit and moon fish, which also repeatedly characterise and permeate the pictorial depictions, may be imagined as mythical figures that sometimes bring a playful, flowing lightness to the deep and not infrequently also abysmally fearful longing of the human figures. At the end of the book, Johanna Hansen writes in a short explanatory text about Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann:
From very different elements, then, the attempt about love (in difficult times) has emerged, an attempt about the longing for closeness, touch, but also oneness with oneself and the other: the world.
Longing captures everything in the longing: the inner images, the language, what is heard, said and understood. As if in a trialogue of language, image and music, Johanna Hansen's book manifests and plays around an insatiable longing, which for this reason alone does not lend itself to the ultimate happy ending: the longing of Clara and Robert, the longing of the painter and poet and probably also the longing of you and me and all of us, which manifests itself in our extraterrestrial dream figures.
www.signaturen-magazin.de
Johanna Hansen: Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish. Art book. Poetry and painting by Johanna Hansen, with a score by Robert Schumann and fragments from the correspondence of Clara and Robert Schumann. Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße (Wortschau Verlag) 2022. 92 pages. 69,00 Euro.
Sehnsuchts-Trialog
A book is something to read. A book is something to look at. A book is something to touch. A book is something that opens up to us and closes again, that gives us something tangible to hold and something intangible to ponder and puzzle over. Is a book something that sounds?
Johanna Hansen's "Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish" contains excerpts of scores from the "Kinderszenen" and other piano pieces by Robert Schumann in the original size of an old edition of these pieces from a flea market that fell into the artist's hands. Only very few of the people who go through the opulently illustrated book-sized work page by page are able to make these piano passages sound mentally. And yet something happens to the notes in this book, so that a kind of music emerges.
Painted over parts of the score excerpts are images - often in haunting reds, blues and blacks - of a male and, more often, a female figure: sometimes just a head or part of one, sometimes a body, sometimes a confluence of human and animal form.
Johanna Hansen's images and the long poem that fills the middle section of the book resonate with the love story of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck, which was marked by tough obstacles. Excerpts from correspondence between the two form the sub-chapter headings of the poem, as it were. The whole - text as well as score - is interwoven with those haunting images that are at once powerfully moving and melancholy, almost childishly simple and abstractly expressive, softly flowing and strikingly contoured. Very much like the music of Robert Schumann.
The book, designed by Claudia Linnhoff and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, is a work of synaesthesia: the combination of letter quotation, poem, picture and musical score creates in their interplay something that moves our senses multimodally, so that even for those who cannot read music, the pages of the book make something in us vibrate and sound, creating a kind of pictorial sound poetry.
Moon rabbit and moon fish, which also repeatedly characterise and permeate the pictorial depictions, may be imagined as mythical figures that sometimes bring a playful, flowing lightness to the deep and not infrequently also abysmally fearful longing of the human figures. At the end of the book, Johanna Hansen writes in a short explanatory text about Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann:
From very different elements, then, the attempt about love (in difficult times) has emerged, an attempt about the longing for closeness, touch, but also oneness with oneself and the other: the world.
Longing captures everything in the longing: the inner images, the language, what is heard, said and understood. As if in a trialogue of language, image and music, Johanna Hansen's book manifests and plays around an insatiable longing, which for this reason alone does not lend itself to the ultimate happy ending: the longing of Clara and Robert, the longing of the painter and poet and probably also the longing of you and me and all of us, which manifests itself in our extraterrestrial dream figures.
www.signaturen-magazin.de
WORTSCHAU Special Edition 4: Body Images
Johanna Hansen and Wolfgang Allinger (editors)
The first www.wortschau.com with a colour interior.
The special issue KÖRPERBILDER.
A collaboration with the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen. On the occasion of ten works by visual artists, all of which show the male view of the (often female) body, we invited 27 female authors to reflect on this view from a female perspective.
With them are Elke Engelhardt, Annette Hagemann, Birgit Kölgen, Franziska Beyer-Lallauret, Kathrin Niemela, Sigune Schnabel,Monika Littau, Bess Dreyer, Ulrike Bail, Monika Vasik Sophie Reyer, Katharina Dück, Pegah Ahmadi, Johanna Hansen and many others. There will be readings in the museum, a soiree at the opening and an app with an audio tour for which some texts have been linguistically staged.
The first www.wortschau.com with a colour interior.
The special issue KÖRPERBILDER.
A collaboration with the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen. On the occasion of ten works by visual artists, all of which show the male view of the (often female) body, we invited 27 female authors to reflect on this view from a female perspective.
With them are Elke Engelhardt, Annette Hagemann, Birgit Kölgen, Franziska Beyer-Lallauret, Kathrin Niemela, Sigune Schnabel,Monika Littau, Bess Dreyer, Ulrike Bail, Monika Vasik Sophie Reyer, Katharina Dück, Pegah Ahmadi, Johanna Hansen and many others. There will be readings in the museum, a soiree at the opening and an app with an audio tour for which some texts have been linguistically staged.
Hot off the press out of the letterbox. I am pleased to be included
