Saturday • 23 August 2025 • 3pm
"The monastery in in film scores – film music concert with Knut Elstermann"
Babelsberg Film Orchestra
Burghard Götze • conductor
Yuliya Peters • piano
Knut Elstermann • presenter
Knut Elstermann, Burghard Götze • introduction to the concert in the refectory at 2:15 pm
Film scores from ‘The Name of the Rose’, (1986) ‘In the Shoes of the Fishermen’ (1968), ‘The Sailor and the Nun’ (1957), and much more.
In a cultural environment shaped by Christianity, monasteries are places of refuge for religious communities to dedicate their lives to faith and align them with what their belief prescribes. In medieval times, the monastery was first and foremost a place of scholarship and penmanship. Spacious monastery grounds also expressed ecclesial power and expansive aspirations. Then again, romanticism discovered and interpreted the ruined monastery set in a beautiful landscape as a landmark of evanescence and change. Ruined monasteries are sombre places in English ghost stories and, in their wake, many a horror movie. As an ideograph, the monastery embodies the clash of different worlds: a closed, withdrawn circle inside and the world outside where the so-called real life takes place. There is a reason why many films and film scores are built around this theme and conflict.
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