…were starring in the New Years Concert on Jan 01st 2020. And realized they didn’t have a proper bio for the program notes. Since most of them are professional orchestra musicians, they are very verpeilt, sort of tsk tsk tsk in a loving, adoring but also Hände-über-dem-Kopf-zusammengeschlagene way. So since we were already past the…
Author: JuliaThekla
Musikdramaturgie
I have played in various orchestras, mostly in Freiburg, and helped out in even more. For two semesters, I played in a chamber orchestra, das Junge Kammerorchester Freiburg and because usually I am all in, I wrote the program notes for those two concerts, in 2012 and 2013. Enjoy!
ManiACTs
The English Drama Club of the University of Freiburg. Since my former roomie was quite involved, so became I and since I lacked the self-confidence to try out on stage, I took over house management and offered to write texts for the program notes. These are my two contributions. Enjoy!
List of current projects
“Kosmogonien: Am Anfang war…” (AT): commissioned libretto in English for the Staatskapelle Halle, UA planned for end of 2026/beginning of 2027. “Plötzlich Hochbegabt“, a collection of essays about people who have been diagnosed as “gifted” late in life and how it changed them. I feel very honoured to share my experiences on there. To be…
#01
Seit nunmehr vier Jahren nehme ich mir vor, dieses Buch zu schreiben. Vermutlich werden bis zur Fertigstellung noch viele weitere vergehen, aber es schadet nichts, den Beginn des eigentlichen Schreibprozesses an dieser Stelle festzuhalten. Obwohl, der “eigentliche Schreibprozess” ist an und für sich ein irreführender Begriff. Das eigentliche Schreiben meint vermutlich die Aneinanderreihung von Buchstaben,…
Are they planning a murder?
…she asked herself as the crows gathered on the roof. It was a foggy November day and our protagonist (me) wasn’t able to do anything but sit and puzzle and listen to podcasts. That day was years ago but never really ended. Before that, or inbetween while waiting for new episodes to drop, it was…
Julia had settled down…
…on her side and was already on the point of falling asleep. Was she tired? Probably. Was that why? Nope. It was because she made the mistake of reading a book that sounded a m a z i n g in theory – yet was a complete fail in practice. Sandra Newman’s JULIA, based on…
A little bird told me
…that tattoos aren’t cheep. Sometimes it feels like I’m carrying a bird, ehm, a burden of course – clearly a Freudian slip because as you might have guessed from the title, bird is the word and isn’t the English language so fascinating considering these two words rhyme? #englishpronounciation I take it you already know the…
In Taros Welt / Taro’s World
UPDATE: The first review is out! Check it out here: Pizzicato You already know a lot about my world, now it is time to get to know another one: As of today, Taro’s World is streaming worldwide on all standard streaming platforms! Who is this Taro dude, you may ask. Well, he’s a fictional character,…
Bad Blood / Böses Blut
Hand’s up one of the best Scandinavian crime novels I read in a long time. And I’m not saying this because of the cover. Okay, maybe, because I love puns. I am an avid reader of Henning Mankell and his Wallander novels, of Jo Nesbø‘s Harry Hole and of course I’ve read Miss Smilla’s Feeling…