Franz Schubert "Winter Journey" - "The Linden Tree"

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This video-clip shows an extra-ordinary interpretation of the famous song of "The Linden Tree" composed by Franz Schubert. The actor Horst Dittrich sings with gestures this famous song in Austrian Sign Language.

In the „Winter Journey" a traveller remembers the lost of the girl he loved. Due to this love story from the past the traveller must walk all time as in summer as in winter, day and night, because "I arrived a stranger and leave again a stranger". During his journey he remembers the relationship to the beloved girl from the past: the wind, the dancing weather vane, the frozen tears, the snow, the dream of the linden tree, the cold water, the ice, the dream about spring and love, the lonely clouds, the desire for communication, the crow as a strange friend on the journey, the dogs in the village, the cold winter, the cold light, the search for the right direction in the travel, the inn on the graveyard, the snow and the cold sun, the search as the essential aim of life.
The "Winter Journey" of the composer Franz Schubert (1797 -- 1828) and the poet Wilhelm Müller (1794 -- 1827) was sung by lot of different voices (from higher ones to deeper ones). But we missed "one voice": the Sign Language of the Deaf. Now for the first time the "Winter Journey" is presented by a deaf actor in a visual interpretation. The poems of the "Winter Journey" like eye music. The emotion of the poems can be seen in the Sign Language. So the music of Franz Schubert will be combined with the visual music of the deaf. For the musical interpretation an original piano of the Viennese Eduard Seuffert from 1855 is used.


„Winter Journey" Song Cycle to poems of Wilhelm Müller composed by Franz Schubert
A Concert in the Theatre with Signed Songs


Gesture Singer: Horst Dittrich (deaf actor) / Singer: Rupert Bergmann (Bass Baritone) / Piano: Gert Hecher / Costumes designed by: Sanzaba Dimna / Light designed by: Bidpai / Translation into Austrian Sign Language: Horst Dittrich / Director, Producer and Dramaturgy: Herbert Gantschacher

ARBOS-Company for Music and Theatre
Director & Producer: Herbert Gantschacher
Camera & Edit: Olgierd Koczorowski
Video Producer: Jerzy Kaluzny