Musiksommer: Sandra Kreisler & Band

"Schum Davar"

The program “Schum Davar” by the multiple award-winning chanson singer Sandra Kreisler does not come across as soft and gentle, but it does not lack the lightness and the famously Jewish humor either.

Jewish Culture Days, Chanson, World Music

Sandra Kreisler: Vocals
Gennadij Desatnik: Violin, Viola, Guitar, Vocals
Valeriy Khoryshman: Accordion, Cajon, Arrangements

Entry: € 28.00
Tickets available at the Vitalwelt Tourist Office in Bad Schallerbach 07249/420710, tickets@musiksommerbadschallerbach.at  or through Ö-Ticket.
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Schum Davar
“One has to have lived a life to be able to sing such chansons…” said a contemporary about Sandra Kreisler. And “Sandra always disturbs by thinking along.” it was said in Vienna, the city she long turned her back on. Because she indeed lives a life and thinks along. And that is exactly how her Jewish program presents itself.
Schum davar means “no thing” or “nothing at all,” but Schum is also the Hebrew word for garlic – much more “the Jew’s food” than the onion, as Wilhelm Busch once derogatorily wrote in verse. And Schum is also the name that the Hasidic Jews once gave to the great triad of cities Speyer, Worms, and Mainz, in which the religious Hasidic movement was able to flourish so well.
This is the tension field in which the multiple award-winning chanson singer situates her program. Along this arc, she addresses today’s Judaism, the German “ethno-tourist” – who loves to attend klezmer concerts and simultaneously places the conflict with the Palestinians solely on Israel – but also the question of whether songs are already “Jewish songs” just because a Jew writes or sings them.
This program does not present itself as soft and gentle, but it does not lack the lightness and the famously Jewish humor. A gallows humor, a black humor, but also a quirky and unconventional humor. In short, Kreisler presents herself in this program wholly in the tradition of her famous father, Georg Kreisler, whose songs are just as much a part of it as contemporary, completely unknown songs and hundreds of years old shtetl niggunim.

For the Jewish experience cannot simply be addressed through references to religion, Israel, and/or the Holocaust. How can it even be answered why a group comprising less than 0.2% of the world population is so persistently and conspicuously discussed? And what actually happened? Nothing at all?

The visitor will confront more questions in this program than answers – because one must practice thinking along. Sandra Kreisler is predestined to pose these questions with her songs, and she poses them with wit, charm, and a mischievous sparkle in her eyes. One must indeed have lived a life to be able to sing such chansons.

“She was an eruption in terms of liveliness. Sandra Kreisler, daughter of Georg Kreisler and Topsy Küppers, is an incredibly intense interpreter. There is, on one hand, this old timber, strongly smoky. And her presence! It eliminated (...) any distance. Kreisler was always close up and even closer. When she speaks, when she sings, when she chats with the audience, there is a physicality that grabs you.” — Badische Zeitung

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