“Da gibt´s kein aber und kein nein”

Curt Bloch, born in Dortmund in 1908, studied law and was banned from working in his profession from 1933, which applied to all people of Jewish faith. After increasing hostility, he fled to the Netherlands. When the systematic deportations began after the invasion of the Wehrmacht in 1942, Curt Bloch went into hiding. In his hiding place, he began to compile small magazines with poems he had written himself in August 1943. The title of the magazines: Het Onderwater-Cabaret (The Underwater Cabaret). The magazines are read by other people in hiding and their helpers. He survived his time in hiding until liberation in 1945, remaining in the Netherlands for three years after the war before emigrating to the USA. Bloch died in New York on February 14, 1975. Winfried Radeke set fourteen poems from his “Onderwater Cabaret” to music and arranged them in 2024

WITH Maria Thomaschke and Andreas Jocksch (vocals) and the musicians Karola Elßner (saxophone), Hans-Peter Kirchberg (piano), Timofeij Sattarov (accordion), Volker Suhre (double bass)

MODERATION Winfried Radeke