What role can the intertwining of music and grief work play in times of crisis? And what potential lies in an intergenerational exchange on questions of identity, grief and collective memory? Artist and musician Elischa Kaminer, who lives in Frankfurt and London, explores these questions in his production “sing of strings of love and rage” (working title), which will premiere in November. At there two upcoming events, Kaminer will provide initial insights into his work.

On 3 September, Laura Cazés, publicist and head of the Communication and Digitisation Department of the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany (ZWST), and Kaminer's father Isidor Kaminer, psychoanalyst and psychotherapeutic supervisor at the Frankfurt meeting place for Shoah survivors, will discuss the intersections of music, coping with grief and the history of Jewish social work in Germany.

On 7 September, Elisha Kaminer will present the some initial musical elements from the music theatre production “sing of strings of love and rage” (working title) in an intimate concert. The songs are based on liturgical and traditional chants (zemirot), which Kaminer is adapting as part of his production in order to establish a new diasporic and queer Yiddish song tradition about care.