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Friday, 10/2/2026
at 7:30 PM



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NO MUSEUM ARTWORK.
SCHUBERT'S WINTER JOURNEY in OUR TIME.
"That is not how you can, nor may you, interpret the Winter Journey."

Schubert's Winter Journey is among the most significant song cycles of Romanticism.
A work about loneliness, alienation, loss, longing – and the faint possibility of hope.
Yet to this day, it is often treated like a museum masterpiece:
The singer stands next to the piano, the pianist accompanies, and the audience remains at a safe distance.

BUT HOW CAN THIS BE? – with the energy, urgency, and inner radicality of this music?
- Julia Aldinger and Stefan Bien break Schubert's Winter Journey out of the classical concert form.
- Voice, piano, body, space, and silence become part of a shared dramaturgy.
- The piano does not only accompany. The singer is not just standing next to the instrument.
- Both artists move in the space, react to each other, and let the 24 songs emerge as an interconnected scenic journey.

> No opera. No play with music.
> Directed by the award-winning director Lea Willeke
> Schubert's Winter Journey – immediate, physical, and close.
> An evening between song art, scene, and personal experience.

VOICES FROM PREVIOUS CONCERTS
# "I've heard the Winter Journey many times, but that was unique."
# "You must have experienced quite a lot to sing the Winter Journey like that."
# "You could have heard a pin drop."
# BUT also: "No, that can't be done; you can't do it like that."

THE WINTER JOURNEY ON TOUR
Munich · Basel · Leipzig · Dresden · Hamburg · Oslo
Because this Winter Journey does not want to please. It wants to touch.

JULIA ALDINGER · PIANO
Julia Aldinger comes from a German-Russian family of pianists. She studied in Dresden,
Weimar, and St. Petersburg and received artistic impulses from Peter Schreier, András Schiff, Gerold Huber, and Olaf Bär, among others.
After years in academia and family, she returned intensively to song art in 2024.
Today she teaches piano at the State High School for Music in Dresden.
Her playing combines clarity and lightness with a special sensitivity for language, breath, and the psychological depth of the song.

STEFAN BIEN · BARITONE
Stefan Bien was the managing director of an international digital company for many years.
After a burnout and subsequent pilgrimage, he decided
to follow his inner voice, to study Schubert's Winter Journey, and to perform it scenically.
He received important musical impulses from Tobias Berndt, Jean-Noël Briend, and Jan Fackelmann, among others.
Thomas Quasthoff encouraged him with the words: "You will surely find your path, toi, toi, toi."
His interpretation combines song performance with existential urgency and the ambition
to not only present Schubert's music but to make it an experience.

JULIA ALDINGER · PIANO
STEFAN BIEN · BARITONE
SCENIC CONCEPTION / DIRECTION · LEA WILLEKE

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Doors open: 7 PM

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