Audiobook Revelation and Ruin

Klaus Löwitsch

Revelation and Ruin

Führmann

"Here soundlessness modulates into melancholy, and the silence shakes one as deeply as the expressionistic outpouring."

FonoForum 8/02: “Klaus Löwitsch takes as his textual basis Before the "Maws of Fire" (Hinstorf Publishers, Rostock), the book in which Fühman expresses his constant friction with Trakl's lyrics. The thoughts become structured through the short and pointed musical interludes by Markus and Simon Stockhausen. Together with Löwitsch's remarkably accurate recitation, they create a CD which is really intelligent and an absolute delight to listen to.” Georg Bleicher

Award-winning citation from the University of Tübingen:

“... Klaus Löwitsch has bestowed it a congenial voice. [...] Here soundlessness modulates into melancholy, and the silence shakes one as deeply as the expressionistic outpouring. The resulting change of tones can occur abruptly as well as slowly, as if creeping. A sheer inexhaustible variety is displayed, in which the musicality of the Trakl verses, Fühmann's difficult self-discovery, and the stunning enchantment of the interpreter Klaus Löwitsch form a consummate, intense connection. The musical supplements of Markus Stockhausen accentuate the tragic event, do not distract from it or attempt to historise it; rather, they produce a distinct, concentrated echo of the reading.”

Klaus Löwitsch “Revelation and Ruin” – Fühmann's Controversy with Trakl, with music by Markus and Simon Stockhausen, Jo Thönes, Gary Peacock, Fabrizzio Ottaviucci, and Zoro Babel (2 CDs; 83 min., audiobook in German)

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