Ceremony of 80th anniversary of liberation

PHOTO COLLAGE – LIBERATION
musically accompanied by Józef Kropiński: Żal (Regret) composed in the Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1944

POEM
Sarah Udi: Forderung (Demand) written in the Sömmerda subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in February 1945, recited by Johanna Geißler

GREETING
Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner
Director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation

MUSICAL INTERLUDE
Józef Kropiński: Tak się o ciebie boję (I Am So Afraid For You) composed in the Buchenwald concentration camp in August 1944

OPENING ADDRESS
Mario Voigt
Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia

EXCERPTS
The Most Beautiful Museum in the World: François Le Lionnais in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp written in 1946, presented by Sebastian Kowski

MUSICAL INTERLUDE
Stanisław Więckowski: Wojna (War) composed in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943/44

COMMEMORATIVE SPEECH
Christian Wulff
Former President of the Federal Republic of Germany

MUSICAL FINALE
Åses Tod from Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite Nr 1, Op. 46, 1875

The following musicians of the Staatskapelle Weimar are performing:
Barbara Seifert, first violin
Astrid Schütte, second violin
Almut Bormann, viola
Astrid Müller, first cello
Joel Blido, second cello
Claudio Hernandez, contrabass
Stefan Polster, basset horn
Arrangement of the musical frame: André Kassel

The wreath-laying ceremony will take place at 15:00 on the former roll call square (Appellplatz) of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

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