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Footprints

Footprints
2024
Feel With Blood – Echoes of Theresienstadt

lyrics by Lenka Lichtenberg, inspired by poetry of her grandmother Anna Hana Friesova

This is the second and final part of my project based on my grandmother's notebooks from Theresienstadt, and this time, the beautiful poetry is in English so everyone can understand it.

This album of songs is a continuation of the experiences of Anna Hana Friesová (1901-1987), and of Lenka Lichtenberg, her granddaughter. These stories of Friesová’s life in a concentration camp were first sung in the Czech language on Thieves of Dreams (2022) by Lichtenberg, an artist with a gorgeously spellbinding and agile soprano that sometimes swoops down into a dark lower register, eminently suited to bringing the elemental sadness of Friesová’s poetry to life.

The crimson-coloured outer package is the first sign that what you are about to hear are especially heartbreaking... (Continues)
On the road without footprints,
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Contributed by Dq82 2025/5/1 - 19:15
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Maminka

Maminka
Musica/Music/Hudba: Lenka Lichtenberg/Jessica Deutsch

2022
Thieves of Dreams/ Zloději snů. Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess


Per il suo album “Thieves of Dreams”, inciso con perizia insieme a diciotto musicisti, Lenka Lichtenberg (voce, piano, synth) si è immersa nella Cecoslovacchia e nella storia di deportazione della sua famiglia: “Quando mia madre Jana Renée e Friesova è venuta a mancare nel 2016, stavo mettendo in ordine la sua scrivania a Praga e ho scoperto due piccoli quaderni. Erano pieni di poesie che mia nonna, Anna Hana Friesova (1901-1987), aveva scritto nel campo di concentramento di Theresienstadt. (…) Davanti ai miei occhi c'erano pagine strappate con i sogni scritti a mano di mia nonna e i suoi incubi nel campo, storie che non mi ha mai raccontato. Così, mi sono imbarcata in una ricerca per condividere i suoi scritti dall' ‘inferno in terra’, per citare Primo... (Continues)
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Contributed by Stanislava 2022/9/27 - 22:56
Song Itineraries: Extermination camps




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