THE JAZZ PIANIST (jazz play by Patricia Hoffmann)
Jutta Hipp, Europe's First Lady of Jazz, actually never wanted to appear in public again after her far too short but all the more impressive career. She gave up playing the piano over 30 years ago. She still loves music, but her creativity now focuses on painting. With a lot of sensitive persuasion and the promise that she doesn't have to play the piano, the young radio presenter Leo manages to persuade Jutta to give one last public talk. In her early 70s, she travels from New York to Germany once again to be a guest on Leo's talk show.
Together with a jazz trio, they review the moving and eventful life of this exceptional artist. Her birthplace, Leipzig, and the beginning of her secret love of forbidden jazz during the Nazi era are just as much a topic as her musical talent, her rise, her downfalls, her strokes of fate and her great triumphs in New York. This unique journey through life is staged in an innovative mix of theater and concert. Under the musical direction of trombonist Antonia Hausmann, songs from Jutta Hipp's life are reinterpreted.
The actors: Beate Pitronik, Daniela Bolliger, Alex Irrgang
The musicians: Antonia Hausmann, Philipp Scholz, Bertram Burkert
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