Bernd Alois Zimmermann

The contributions to this symposium, which took place at the Cologne University of Music and Dance in 2018 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's birth, show that his work has lost none of its relevance in an increasingly media-driven world. The viability of the intra- and intermedial concepts that have characterized Zimmermann's work from the outset is evident in his radio plays and film scores, as well as in analyses of his major works Die Soldaten and Requiem für einen jungen Dichter, whose musical organization remains groundbreaking in its multimedia orientation to this day. Furthermore, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's composing also offers points of reference for more recent media-theoretical considerations, which are fruitfully explored in essays on Zimmermann's concept of space or the "ghosts and specters" of music history in his work.
Zimmermann's composing at the intersection of media thus reveals itself in its mediality, whose transparency, in keeping with the pluralistic method of composition, opens up manifold perspectives between times and remains present in a comprehensive sense.

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