NOSFERATU silent movie concert

for the AUFTAKT of the Casper David Friedrich anniversary

Stephan Graf v. Bothmer interprets the silent film classic live on the grand piano. His extremely evocative music penetrates the film to a depth that previously seemed unattainable. The audience seems to be literally sucked into the film: they experience the movie from the inside! A wonderful and uncanny journey into the unconscious, into the land of secret fears and desires.

The pianist and composer Stephan Graf v. Bothmer fills theaters and concert halls on five continents with his spectacular silent film concerts and has thrilled over 250,000 guests to date: at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, as well as in Berlin at the Admiralspalast, the Wintergarten Varieté and the Berlin Cathedral, even at the Rock-Pop Festival at Tempelhof Airport after Björk, Blur and the Pet Shop Boys. Media such as the NEW YORK TIMES report on the musician: "High drama and standing ovations" (print edition and online). Divine divas, honorable gentlemen, unscrupulous crooks and bizarre characters shine in a new light through his music.

"Nosferatu" is the first and most charismatic Dracula adaptation in film history. It tells the well-known story of a young man who sets out to sell a house and ends up in a nightmare. "Nosferatu" is one of the most artistically valuable German film productions of all time. The film belongs to the eerie romance genre and originates from a highly romantic fairytale world, which F.W. Murnau essentially realized on location, in nature outside the film studios - which was a sensation at the time with the heavy cameras. The poetic visual language, nature shots that had never been used before and the sensational performance of Max Schreck, together with von Bothmer's music, make for an almost mystical experience. [F.W. Murnau, D 1922]