Klusa-Duo - Komponistinnen im Exil (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Displacement, escape, disaster and death or a source of new inspiration and strength - these are the two poles between which the state of exile is ascribed. Even in ancient times, exile was used as a method of punishment. Leaving one's homeland, arriving in the unknown and finding a new place - a fate that also befell Ovid, for example, when he had to leave Rome and move to the city of Tomis on the Black Sea. For artists in particular, exile brings difficulties in several respects: it is not only their home in life that they lose, they also have to leave behind their creative home, the cultural space in which they were shaped and grew up, the spoken language, the musical, the artistic and the aesthetic. And not least the audience that has understood and accepted them.