human requiem: Rundfunkchor Berlin

About this Event

After celebrating its premiere in 2012, Jochen Sandig’s award-winning staging of Johannes Brahms’ “Ein deutsches Requiem” with Rundfunkchor Berlin will be back at Radialsystem with three performances in April 2026. With principal conductor Gijs Leenaars and a team from Sasha Waltz & Guests, the Rundfunkchor Berlin presents Brahms’ Requiem in a choreographed form. The separation between stage and audience dissolves: instead of sitting in front of the sound, the audience moves within it – text, body, space and music are brought into direct connection. “human requiem” has now been moving audiences for 14 years – and it remains as relevant as ever. In view of the unimaginable suffering created by wars and multiple crises, our current need for solace is all-encompassing. And Brahms’ Requiem is not a mass for the dead. On the contrary: it is meant to provide solace to the living. For this reason, a spatial re-interpretation of this work makes all the more sense. In the communion of singers and listeners, the Requiem’s message becomes a direct, collective experience.