"Tatort Geschichte - True Crime meets History" is the name of Bayern 2's successful podcast with historians Niklas Fischer and Hannes Liebrandt. In the individual episodes, they take their listeners on a journey back to exciting crimes from the past and ask themselves what they have to do with us today.
They present their podcast live at the Bergson Kunstkraftwerk - and that's not all: they are joined by the renowned ensemble KONTRASTE, an important source of inspiration and an integral part of Nuremberg's cultural landscape for 35 years. Together they take us on a journey to Prague.
Whitsun 1848: the flames of resistance blaze in the streets of Prague. Paving stones become barricades, tables become shields. Thousands of citizens - students, workers, women - rise up against the Habsburg regime. Their goal: national self-determination, freedom, an end to imperial control. But what began as a protest ended in days of bloodshed.
In the midst of this turmoil: a young man, barely in his twenties. Bedřich Smetana, later celebrated as the father of Czech national music, observes the events with open eyes - and open ears. He became a silent witness to a historical upheaval that would shape his work forever. These events in Prague extend far beyond the year 1848. Smetana's footsteps would soon be followed by another Czech composer who was less than ten years old at the time of the uprising: Antonín Dvořák.
Both composers not only wrote music history - they gave voice to the Czech people's sense of freedom: not in slogans, but in sounds that still resonate today.
History and music merge in this episode to form a dense picture of the times: the revolutionary call for freedom and the longing of a people for self-determination are reflected not only in the events on the streets of Prague - but also in the works composed by Smetana and Dvořák.
With the kind support of the Georg von Vollmar Academy.
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