Frederike Moormann


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© Frederike Moormann, Recording with Jarobinka
© Frederike Moormann, Recording with Jarobinka
© Frederike Moormann, Recording with Jarobinka

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Ongoing Research/ Field Recordings from Lusatia: mine pumps (2025), Spree (2025), Walburga Walde (conversation & singing 2025), Jarobinka ensemble outdoors (2026). Contains recordings from radio piece "Singing Landscapes. Mining Choirs after Mining" (Upcoming, German Public Broadcast, Nov 2026)

Audio Sketch, 5:00















Translation of conversation snippets
with Walburga Walde

1st excerpt (1:15)
So you drive… a long way along the forest. It always moves me, driving from Upper Lusatia into Lower Lusatia. And then to think: wow, this is such a dead area [of the open cast mines]. You drive through it as if through a tunnel. And then you come out at the end… Yes… and of course now, after the lignite, lots of lakes everywhere. But in these songs I also see a lot of meadows, and I mean, sure – with the flowers. Sometimes they speak of sheep and shepherds. So I also see something dreamy in them, somehow.

2nd excerpt (3:23)
That's the only strength you can draw from it. Bringing back what was lost here by singing it… and bringing it back to life. Reaching across into history, further… yes. Going into what is alive. Let's sing the songs again, let's bring them back to life, let's tell the stories…