Symposia

The International Hanns Eisler Society organizes a symposium (an “EislerFest” or "EislerTag") each year in cooperation with different institutions.

1994: EislerFest at the Academy of the Arts in Berlin (with keynote speech by Prof. Hans Mayer)

1995: EislerFest at the Folkwang Conservatory in Essen (with a colloquium and master classes)

1996: EislerFest in cooperation with the College of Theater Arts “Ernst Busch” in Berlin (focal point: Brecht and Eisler’s collaboration on Die Maßnahme)

1997: EislerFest at Dresden’s Center for Contemporary Music

1998: EislerFest at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig (with keynote speech by Prof. Oskar Negt and the premiere of the group composition Vierzehn Arten den Eisler zu beschreiben)

1999: EislerFest in cooperation with the Joris Ivens Foundation in Nijmegen, Holland (focal point: Ivens’s films with music by Eisler)

2000: EislerFest in cooperation with the Ernst Bloch Center in Ludwigshafen (theme: the collaboration between Eisler and Bloch)

2001: EislerTag at the Conservatory of Music “Hanns Eisler” in Berlin (focal point: Eisler and Schönberg in Berlin, 1925-33)

2002: EislerFest in cooperation with the Academy of the Arts in (theme: Johann Faustus)

Other Events

In addition to the EislerFeste, the Society promotes Hanns Eisler’s work through a variety of musical and scholarly events. For the Eisler centenary in 1998, the Society organized an international colloquium with the support of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Together with the city of Leipzig and the Gewandhaus, the Society also organized that year a series of concerts and an art exhibit featuring works by Nuria Quevedo. Likewise, the Society has worked with the Berliner Festspiele GmbH to initiate numerous concerts and worldwide symposia dedicated to Eisler (an example being a film music symposium at the Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades, California).