IMIONA NURTU. DIE NAMEN DER STRÖMUNG

Lending your voice to someone who can no longer speak for themselves is an intimate experience. For the project Imiona Nurtu. Die Namen der Strömung, people from across Europe followed director and radio producer Kai Grehn’s call to pick a name from the Death Books of Auschwitz to speak out loud and have it recorded. The result is a truly exceptional audio piece that reaches far beyond the boundaries of this genre; it is a memento mori interleaved with camp poems written by one of the camp survivors, Tadeusz Borowski, and sound recordings from the former prison barracks. It is art in the service of remembrance and an audio oratorio bearing witness instead of recounting. This quiet, almost ceremonial piece of work is capable of building a bridge that reaches out to the dead through the voices of the living.