Musik und Dichtung zu Mittag

Nobel is the end of the world: Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his swan song about a Hanseatic merchant family. The cycle »Musik und Dichtung zu Mittag« presents the generational novel »Buddenbrooks« as a serialized story in nine stages. Readers such as Felix Kammerer, Katharina Lorenz and Erwin Steinhauer slip into the roles of the main characters from Lübeck's upper middle class 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 - from clear classicism to dark decadence - the decline of the Buddenbrooks. The fateful connection between music and literature is masterfully expressed by musicians such as Anton Gerzenberg, Maximilian Kromer and Marina Piccinini.