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Four Days of Contemporary Music at Kampnagel
This edition of the Festival of Contemporary Music is dedicated to the subject of »intoxication«, and promises top hits from Boulez to Varèse, as well as present-day compositions. As always, events are held at Kampnagel and the Elbphilharmonie. In a sobering demonstration of how ecstatic frenzy can also manifest collectively in the form of a mass movement, the opening evening features the sensational rediscovery of a nightmarish contemporary document from 1924: Hans Karl Breslauer’s silent film »Die Stadt ohne Juden« (The City without Jews).
