Reading | Bukowski

16.09.2017 20:00 – 23:00

Engelbert Decker is/reads Charles Bukowski – America’s godfather of dirty neo-realism, the dark side of Beat literature, Engelbert Decker and Victor Moser: two giants meet…

A literary-musical reading by Engelbert Decker (voice) and Victor Moser (piano / pianola)

Engelbert Decker is/reads Charles Bukowski – America’s godfather of dirty neo-realism, the dark side of beat literature, two giants Engelbert Decker and Victor Moser meet: uncouth, realistic and funny. Engelbert Decker was already a guest in DAS ESSZIMMER as part of the Beethoven@Home concert Pastorale – a musical reading on 6 May 2017.

Charles Bukowski, born on August 16, 1920 in Andernach near Koblenz, grew up in Los Angeles during the economic crisis. Already an outsider as a child, he found support at an early age with alcohol and literature. Countless badly paid jobs and a life of cheap relegation, first short story at 24, life-threatening gastric bleeding at 35. It wasn’t until he was 50 that he was able to make a living from writing, and he also became a cult author in Germany. Since his death on March 9, 1994, further publications have been made from the estate, a literary society has been founded and his old backyard has been declared a cultural heritage. Today Bukowski is a modern classic.

Kaputt in Hollywood, are apocalyptic visions, American nightmares, protocols of everyday hell.

Engelbert Decker, Bonn/GER

Engelbert Decker, bass and speaker, sang his first role in Der Kaiser von Rom as a boy soprano when he was twelve. Singing lessons with Prof. Margit Kobeck, Cologne University of Music, after completing medical studies in Cologne with a doctorate in medicine in Heidelberg, then studying in Freiburg at the Staatl. University of Music with Professor Haagen, continued singing with Ms. Gisela Aulmann and Hartmut Singer; Speech training: Prof. Thomas (Freiburg University of Music) and Prof. Renate Peters, Cologne. Double scholarship holder from the Richard Wagner Foundation.

Victor Moser, Bonn/GER

Victor Moser, Musician, born in 1958 in Dushanbe, capital of the Republic of Tajikistan. Musical training at the school for gifted students, continuation of studies in 1973 at the Stattl. Tallinn University of Music with Prof. Leelo Kolar, from 1976 onwards master class Prof. Tiny Wirtz, Staatl. Musikhochschule Köln, graduated in 1982; Master classes with Prof. Tatjana Nikolajewa (Moscow) and Prof. Karl-Heinz Kämmerling (Hanover / Salzburg).

Independent national and international work as a piano teacher, soloist and chamber musician with performances in France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, England, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Estonia and Russia. Pianist in the Köchlin Trio (Walter Schreiber, violin, WDR), appearances with Andrew Joy, (principal horn player – WDR), Maxim Wengerow, violin, Natalia Prischtschepenko (Artemis quartet), Aroa Sorin (minquett quartet), Melina Mandozzi and Linus Roth, particular success with the piano concerto in D minor, JS Bach and the St. Petersburg soloists under Michail Gantwarg.

Song accompanist for various international singers such as Tatjana Wischnewetskaja, Ella Lee-Romani, Christina Kühne (soprano), Nathalie M. Vinzent (mezzo-soprano).

Currently musical collaboration with Sergej Zakurin, violinist and concertmaster of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Dmitrij Gornowskij, solo cellist of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie (Sternenburg Trio), Bernhard Zapp (violoncello) Recital of rare sonatas (G. Faure, C. Debussy, F. Poulenc), Michael Neuhalfen (clarinet) and B. Zapp clarinet trio Triomane: works by L. v. Beethoven, J. Brahms, A. v. Zemlinsky, W. Berger, R. Kahn, C. Frühling, E. Hartmann, M. Tajcevic, and R. Muczinsky.

Victor Moser is a piano lecturer at the Alanus University, Bornheim. He lives in Bonn and is a mentor, teacher and companion for his six children.