Musica reanimata

Musica reanimata Friends' Association for the Rediscovery of Nazi Persecuted Composers and their Works eV is a non-profit association founded in Berlin in 1990 that promotes the rediscovery of composers who were persecuted by the National Socialist regime during the Nazi era , such as Viktor Ullmann and Erwin Schulhoff or Mieczysław Weinberg . For this purpose, the association organizes “lecture concerts in cooperation with Deutschlandfunk and the Konzerthaus Berlin as well as scientific conferences”, publishes its own series of publications “Displaced Music” and its own magazine. In addition, musica reanimata supports biographical research on persecuted composers as well as musicological research into their works. Currently the association consists of around 100 members, including Bettina Brand, Gottfried Eberle, Anke Hopfengart, Herbert Gantschacher , Peter Sarkar and Winfried Radeke . A prominent member of the association is the former President of the Bundestag Norbert Lammert . The chairman of the association is currently. the musicologist Albrecht Dümling . Hans-Günter Klein , who died in 2016, was a member of the board and editor of the series Verdrängte Musik for many years . Musica reanimata was awarded the " Critics' Prize for Music 2006" from the Association of German Critics. While the association's work originally focused primarily on composers such as Viktor Ullmann interned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , it was later expanded to include composers in exile such as Joseph Horovitz and Mieczysław Weinberg .