STERBENDIG
A Bavarian song journey through a human life
It's about birth, decision-making, thoughts, enmeshment, tradition, anger, work, money, religion, science, autonomy, being in love, passing away. Thus, it's about everyday life, yet in a rather less everyday way.
We are on a song journey. And we are in company of a being named "Sterbendig". It's a being of letting go and in the nature of life's changing. Our song journey takes us through a human life in a Bavarian gait and in five phases. The five phases are called "Geburt" (birth), "Gedank und Grant" (thought and anger), "Geleit" (conduct), "Gspusi" (love), and "Geleich" (funeral). In the first phase "Geburt", man turns towards the world. In the second phase "Gedank und Grant", he looks at his ability to think and to feel. In the third phase "Geleit", he sees certain conditions of living and finds his autonomy. The fourth phase "Gspusi" is followed by the fifth "Geleich" in which man turns away from the world. Indeed, man crosses those phases several times in his life and in changing order. The song journey becomes a giving for life.
Programme sequence
A programme from the same family as the classical recital, the "Hoagart" (a Bavarian folk music soiree), and the cabaret.
- Geburt / Birth
- Eingeburtskanon
- Då steh i då
- Sterpensieroso (instrumental)
- Gedank und Grant / Thought and Anger
- Denga umanand
- Nomoi
- Tradition
- Grant
- Geleit / Conduct
- Arbeit (instrumental)
- Arbat und Urlaub
- Ruach
- Angstpiperl (instrumental)
- Kiacherer
- Reagenzlandler (instrumental)
- Wissenschaftler
- Leit samma, Leit
- Leitseiner (instrumental)
- Gspusi / Love
- Gspusi-Musi 1
- Keaberl
- Eha
- Des verliabte Gmiat
- Gspusi-Musi 2
- Geleich (Leich in sechs Liedern) / Funeral (Six Song Funeral)
- Pfia di Gott, Wäit
- Diam amoi
- Dank da schee
- Heilig
- Meiner Säi, ja
- Griaß di, Mensch
The programme photo
About our fine Sterbendig pantomime, nothing else shall be revealed but just that: it is to be read counter-clockwise; the Dance of Death allegory is its gaffer; and it bears a strong resemblance to the programme structure ...
Song lyrics
Download the German / Bavarian song lyrics here (pdf, DIN long)