GUSEN CONVOLUTE

GUSEN CONVOLUTE / Gusen Convolute Working Group - Photo: Oö. Krone, Horst Einöder

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GUSEN CONVOLUTE

Songs from the Concentration Camp

Gusen Convolute Working Group (AT)

Gusen is a village in Upper Austria. During the Nazi era, over 70,000 people were imprisoned here in three camps. About half of them were tortured to death. The Nazis were especially focused on wiping out the Polish intelligentsia. That is why a disproportionate number of Polish musicians and composers suffered in Gusen. Over the years, they wrote songs, mostly in secret.
Many of the originals are available in the Kulisiewicz Collection at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Peter Androsch and a diverse team have developed artistic reflections on some of these pieces. The aim of this project is not to preserve the songs or exhibit them in an online museum. Rather, they want to remember the songs. Bring them back into our hearts and minds. This means approaching them with the deepest possible understanding and with our current way of thinking, feeling, acting, and creating.

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  • Gusen Convolute Working Group

    Composer and universal artist Peter Androsch has been researching music written in the Gusen concentration camp for five years. In the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gusen Convolute” (Gusen Convolute Working Group), he wants to give the authors a voice, breathe new life into their works, and develop them further. He is working together with people from a wide variety of genres: David Baczyk, Anja Burghardt, Bibi Finster, Bogna Korabiewska, Agata Moll, Claus Prellinger, Florian Sedmak, Dorota Trepczyk, and others.

Credits

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gusen Convolute, Alexander Kulisiewicz Collection, Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich, Maria Berger, Bewusstseinsregion Mauthausen-Gusen-St. Georgen, CCP Studio, Prellinger Claus, Erste Stiftung, Andrea und Christoph Freudenthaler, Gedenkdienstkomitee Gusen, GWG Linz, Haus der Erinnerung St. Georgen, Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Thomas Kerbl, Kriegergut—Garten- und Landschaftsdesign, Maria Kronsteiner, Landeshauptstadt Linz, LAWOG, Markus Lindinger, Alexander Luger, Hans Mitterbauer, Heimatverein Katsdorf / Gemeinde Katsdorf, Helmut Mittendorfer, Oö. Landesregierung, Stadtgemeinde Perg, Rosenbauer International AG, Martin Siegel, Josef Siligan, Dorota Trepczyk, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Andrea und Erich Wahl, Ute Wetscher, Martin Winkler etc.