Eraritjaritjaka – Museum of Phrases

In this new piece, the composer and director Heiner Goebbels shows his usual virtuosity in combining sounds – in this case played live by the Mondriaan Quartet – images and texts to form a Gesamtkunstwerk. The “Canetti Project” is the last part of a trilogy with the French actor André Wilms. Besides sharp, witty phrases from Canetti’s volumes of “Memoirs” from the 1940s to the 1990s, and passages from “Crowds and Power”, the piece also features the central figure from Canetti’s only novel “Auto-da-Fé”, the pedantic loner Professor Kien. The enigmatic title “Eraritjaritjaka” is a word from the Aranda language of the Australian aborigines for a state of mind, “filled with longing for something that has been lost”.