Concert - I am wrapped in longing

"I am wrapped in longing "Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger on her 100th birthday - a musical and literary search for tracesSelma Meerbaum-Eisinger was born in 1924 in Czernowitz in Bukovina, now Ukraine, to German-Jewish parents. Her first poems, which Selma dedicated to her Jewish friend, were written in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. She was 15 years old at the time. She died in a concentration camp at the age of 18, a young Jewish woman who dreamed of a good future and wrote poems. In 1981, at the age of 18, Ursula Kurze discovered these poems for herself, set many of them to music, followed Selma's footsteps to her friends in Israel who had survived the Holocaust and were able to save Selma's poetry album "Blütenlese". Ursula Kurze paints a picture of the poet with recitations, her own settings, contemporary text documents and accompanying guitar music.Ursula Kurze grew up in Cottbus, where she received her first musical training. This was followed by studies at the Weimar University of Music, where she majored in concert guitar, and in Leipzig and Freiburg i. Br. in singing and acting. She now lives in Dresden as a guitarist, singer, actress and composer.

Course director: Kurze, Ursula. The artist is a guitarist, singer and actress.