Concert: Wanderratten sings Hafnlieder (GERMANY/USA)

Musicians from the Hanseatic city of Hamburg sail through Jewish migrations in word and song!

The port of Hamburg is the starting point for this concert. Around 1900, it was the most important emigration port in Europe, and a hub for millions of Eastern European refugees on their way to the New World of America.

With workers’ songs, exile poems and a portion of sailors’ tales, the musicians sing about the port of Hamburg as a place of departure and arrival, as a symbol of home and refuge and as a refuge for hopes and dreams.

Another theme of the production is the Yiddish language, which has always defined itself transnationally and Cross-border. In the performance, revolutionary poets meet modern Yiddish poets. With new and old ballads, it’s about Jewish culture in a time of change and upheaval, flight, hardship, war, expulsion and hope.