Leonard Cohen – We Take Berlin

Tickets
Address Südwestkorso 64, Berlin
Venue's website www.kleines-theater.de
Director Mathias Schönsee
Author Mathias Schönsee

Performing: Christian Kerepezky, Noëlle Haeseling, Saskia von Winterfeld, Barbara Felsenstein

When Leonard Cohen gave his last press conference before his death, he told the public: He does not intend to die. Until now, one can say, he succeeded. At least in his poetry and music. Every word Cohen utters about life and death has at least one double bottom, as in many of his songs. Thinking about faith and religions and also doubting them never let go of Cohen. He was an eternal seeker and has processed this in an incomparable way in his lyrics, which accompany us through his immortal songs until today.

In 1960 Leonard Cohen came to the Greek island of Hydra for the first time - and then again and again. A search for traces. Step by step by step we climb the stairs. On the island of Hydra, after all, there is neither a streetcar nor the possibility of simply driving up by car. And this rock is alive, is a divine source of power, floating in time and space, forming a long or short fermata of the endless melody of creation. Hydra was created as a resting point in this melody by a great composer. It is one of those divine resting points that enable the musician, when he resumes the melody, to take a completely different direction. (Henry Miller)

Hydra promised him, Cohen said, peace, solitude, and concentration. Naturally, drugs helped him achieve this: *I took trip after trip, sitting on the terrace in Greece, waiting to see God.

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