„I chose love as my home.“ – Mascha Kaléko | Musical reading

The third and last reading sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Bochum with poems, a short story and biographical material by Mascha Kaléko.

Mascha Kaléko died exactly 50 years ago. A poet who was completely underestimated during her lifetime.

Her poetry is tender, feminine, sometimes humorous and her texts deal with things that almost everyone knows: love, loneliness, parting, financial hardship, longing; „everyday poetry“ in the best sense of the word.

Her style oscillates between fragility and poignancy. Her poetry is ironic, unsentimental and political. This idiosyncratic mixture makes her work irresistible and timeless. She can take pleasure in nature and inconspicuous little things like a child; her poems of love, escape and loss get under your skin. She gives us a sense of what it is like to be wanted nowhere, to have only love as a home.

JULIA ZOLOTUKHINA, accordion. Studied at the Cologne University of Music and graduated as a music teacher. Studied accordion at the Folkwang University Essen, Diploma. University of Music and Dance Cologne, Wuppertal, Bachelor of Music, currently teaches at the Folkwang University Essen and at the Bochum Music School, among others.

HELLA-BIRGIT MASCUS, Text. Drama studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg, diploma. Engagements at city theatres in Göttingen, Innsbruck, Stendal, Bremerhaven, Düsseldorf, Paderborn, Castrop-Rauxel, since 2013 living in Bochum and working freelance. She currently plays at the Prinz-Regent-Theater, Rottstraße 5, Zeitmaultheater, teaches at the Theaterakademie Sachsen, conceives and gives readings. https://www.theapolis.de/de/profil/hella-birgit-mascus

Supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Bochum