Schubert/Müller/Baczyński

‘WINTERREISE Schubert/Müller/Baczyński’ is a multimedia music, vocal and dance project based on Franz Schubert’s song cycle “Winterreise” to the poems of Wilhelm Müller with accompanying poetry by Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921-1944), an outstanding poet, participant in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, fighting against the German occupation.

The poetry of Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński serves as the voice of a young generation whose freedom, future, and dreams were taken by war. His poems often express themes of solitary journeys and final paths. In the performance, they create an additional dimension of communication with the audience and become an original tool of correspondence with the artistic expression.

The directorial concept involves the use of original video projections, notably featuring the authentic notebook of Kazimierz Fidler, documenting his time in the Buchenwald concentration camp—one of hundreds of thousands of victims of the Nazi extermination system—and the great-grandfather of singer and performer Łukasz Konieczny.

The stage action is interdisciplinary, synthesizing singing, dance, and pantomime. The protagonist is a tragic figure—perhaps representing every human being.