The Night of Museums

Rapperswil, 20 September 2008, 6.00 p.m. – 2.00 a.m.

in Polish Museum

For the first time in its history the Polish Museum in Rapperswil has the pleasure to invite you for a musical and literary journey during the Night of Museums.

The programme includes an artistic workshop and competition for children.

Prof. Andrzej Koss from the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw and Prof. Jan Marczak from the Military Technical Academy (WAT) in Warsaw will be demonstrating the application of lasers in conservation of art works.

At 10 p.m. a musical and literary evening will begin with Heiko Strech reading Polish prose and poetry in German. 

At midnight – a concert: Lech Wieleba, contrabass and Enno Dugnus, piano.

Programme

Heiko Strech, born 1940 in Berlin, spent his childhood in Düsseldorf. He studied German and Romance Philology, History of Art and Theatre Studies in Cologne and Zurich. His PhD dissertation was devoted to T. Fontane. At present Heiko Strech is a journalist, theatrologist and lecturer at the University of Zurich. In the family of Heiko Strech one can also find Polish forefathers.

Lech Wieleba (born in Gdansk). Already as an 18-year-old he knew that music is going to be his profession. He studied contrabass with Prof. Stanislaw Rosiek at the Conservatory in his hometown. Four years of his work at the opera mark also the beginning of his interest in jazz. He is the laureate of the Warsaw Jazz Festival. Among people he worked with Udo Lindenberg, Franz Josef Degenhart and the Classic Jazz Quartet. He took part in film productions (“Reichshaupstadt Privat”, directed by Horst Königstein) and theatres (“Wintergarten Variete” Andre Heller). At present he is working on his own as well as composing music for theatre and television spectacles.

Enno Dugnus (1959). Classical Studies (piano, trumpet) at the Academy of Music in Kassel (D) 1982-1987. In addition studied (Jazz) by Christoph Spendel, Paul Grabowsky and Walter Norris.
Since 1991 lives in Hamburg, Germany. Freelance musician since 1983.
Performed together with Matthias Schubert, Ralph Hübner, Wolfgang Engstfeld, Ken Peplowski, Rachel Gould, Sal Nistico, Allan Praskin, Spike Robinson, Joris Dudli, Paolo Cardoso, Mario Gonzi, James Moody.
Collaboration with various bands and projects (readings: Jazz meets Chandler, the Irish poet Terry McDonagh and others).
In addition to a number of theatrical productions in the Lübecker Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, works as a director of music production in Altonaer Theater and together with Cynthia Utterbach and Joanne Bell in many other theatres in Berlin, in the framework of this activity participated in a series of artistic touring all over Europe.
Participation in radio, television and cinema productions (also as a composer), for example: the film „Rosenstrasse“ (Rose Street) by Margaret von Trotta, as well as in a program Jacques Brel by Dominique Horwitz.
Teaching music in schools, jazz workshops, the jazz choir, exchange projects of German Embassy in Trinidad and privately.