Musik und Dichtung zu Mittag

Nobel is the end of the world: Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his swansong to a Hanseatic merchant family. The cycle »Musik und Dichtung zu Mittag« presents the generational novel »Buddenbrooks« as a serialised story in nine stages. Readers such as Tilman Tuppy, Katharina Lorenz and Erwin Steinhauer slip into the roles of the main characters from Lübeck's upper middle classes and live through their entanglements and everyday dramas. Thomas Mann, who wrote himself into the novel as Hanno, used the music as a leitmotif: As a barometer of mood, it – reflects the decay of the Buddenbrooks from clear classicism to dark decadence –. The fateful connection between music and literature is masterfully expressed by musicians such as Anton Gerzenberg, Maximilian Kromer and Marina Piccinini.