Das Lied von der Erde with poems by Elisabeth Frischauf
November 2025, saw two Memorable performances of Das Lied von der Erde at the Kurhaus Bad tölz and Bergson Kulturkraftwerk Theater, Munich Germany
Hear the poems: Truth, Shoot'em, a fragment of Love Lingers on the short video below:, extracted from the complete performance.
This Lied von der Erde is an hour-long woven tapestry in memory of the ending of WW II, of Nazi banned music and writing by those who managed to escape and those who perished. Conceived and directed through a contemporary lens, by Martina Veh, with my voice and poems in Soundscape by Christoph Reiserer. Also performing: Soprano, Stephanie Krug; Actor, Stefan Wilkening; Dancer, Alberto Pagani; Conductor, Maria Fitzgerald.
Book presentation outdoors, RSVP only at 372 Central Park West, NYC: 2-4 PM
My narrative poem memoir which takes me and my family from WW 1, through WW2 and the Holocaust up to my first grandchild, is published and there will be a presentation on June 12 , outdoors. I will read from the book and answer questions.
The book costs $15 (cash preferred/ check Ok, I have no technology for credit cards). It is in English and German.
Book presentation June 10, 2022, 7 PM Arts on the Lake
640 NY-52, Carmel Hamlet, NY 10512
https://artsonthelake.org
My narrative poem memoir which takes me and my family from WW 1, through WW2 and the Holocaust up to my first grandchild, is published and there will be a presentation on June 10, 7 pm at Arts on the Lake. Tom Kersting will be interviewing me, in addition to my reading and answering audience questions. I hope you can come get the book in your hands..
The book costs $15 and $5 will be donated to Arts on the Lake. It is in English and German.
Three presentations of They Clasp My Hand in Vienna, Austria, May, 2022The
!. The book launch on May 18, 7 PM LiteraturhausWien Zieglergasse 26A, 1070 Vienna at 7PM
There is a lot of history connected with this launch and Literaturhaus. In 2003, I was invited to be part of a panel, “Split Memory,” during the Erich Fried symposium days where I read the first versions of two poems in the Prologue of the book, “MY Holocaust” and “First Generation American,” published in the volume from the Symposium, Czernin Verlag, Vienna, Austria.
My mother, Else Pappenheim, published her memoir and collected medical-psychiatric papers into a book, with Bernhard Handelbauer, Hölderlin, Feuchtersleben and Freud, ” Nausner & Nausner, Gras-Wien, 2004 which was presented at the Literaturhaus. AND: The Theodor Kramer Verlag publishing me now, published my great-aunt, Marie Pappenheim Frisvchauf’s sequel to her novel, “Der Graue Mann,” when she returned from exile in Mexico City in 1947!
2. Reading at Platform BibliotheksInitiativen on May 19 at 7PM Favoritenstraße 22, 1040, ,Vienna
3. Reading May 24, 7PM at the BOOK SHOP SINGER,( Elie Wiesenthal Center) Rabensteig 3, 1010 Vienna
