Keynote
Playing with perceptions
Heiner Goebbels
“His melodic and rhythmic flair form a strong foundation on which emotionality, attitude and humanity are expressed in equal measure. He has constantly challenged the audience’s perception. “*
The work of the internationally renowned and multi-award-winning composer and theatre maker Heiner Goebbels is characterised by his play with perceptions. The artist creates spaces for the imagination with challenging aesthetics that can take the audience’s breath away or be as harsh and gloomy as a landscape with open-cast lignite mining. He finds audiences all over the world who are happy to accept this challenge and who, according to Goebbels himself, should ideally be “curious and very open-minded”. Because they will experience something with all their senses, something unheard of, something new and therefore strange. The artistic border crosser’s search for the unknown and unnoticed is accompanied by social commitment and political awareness.
(*Jury of GEMA’s 12th Music Authors’ Prize, which Heiner Goebbels was awarded in 2021)
Academy of Games
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