To commemorate this year’s the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to host the artistic duo Diana Höbel (actress) and Claudio Rastelli (pianist) for a poignant and passionate set to music reading of texts from Primo Levi‘s writings.
An event that provides an inside and most shocking perspective of the experience in the camps.
“Hierarchy and Privilege” is a reflection on the structure and dynamics of the death camps, constructed entirely from the words of Primo Levi and Hermann Langbein. The starting point of the dramaturgy are the essays, newspaper articles and reviews written by Primo Levi: from these heterogeneous materials emerges a complex vision on the nature of the camps, hellish places but organized according to “principles” that we can find in our societies: fear; hierarchy and privilege, reversal of the categorical imperative, that is, the use of the human being as a means and not as an end.
The project was co-produced with the Institute of Italian Culture in Ljubljana, where it makes its debut on the occasion of the Week of the Italian Language in the World on October 24, 2019.
THE TEXTS WILL BE READ IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE WITH ENGLISH SURTITLES
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Diana Höbel – dramaturgy and interpretation
Claudio Rastelli – original music and performance
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BIO
Diana Höbel
Graduated at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in 1995, she trained with Kuniaki Ida (Le Coque method), Maria Consagra (Laban method), and with directors Gabriele Vacis and Silvio Soldini. She went on to specialize with directors Mario Martone and Krystian Lupa. In theater, she alternates work as an actress at national and foreign public and private Stable Theaters, with the creation of her own projects in collaboration with various organizations and institutions. For the Amici della Musica Association of Modena she writes and performs the melologues “Golem, creator creature,” from the Golem myth to Artificial Intelligence (for Filosofiafestival 2020), “Voices of Love,” about the loves of great musicians of the past, and “Hierarchy and Privilege,” from Primo Levi and Hermann Langbein (co-prod. Italian Cultural Institute of Ljubljana). With Hangar Teatri (Trieste, 2020) she creates “Fusion Point,” a civil theater monologue about the Ferriera of Trieste; and A Basic sCience – a popular theater-science project for Esof 2020; for the Benetton Foundation, the monologue-investigation “Carmen.” Since 2012 she has been active in Trieste, where she produces biographies of personalities linked to the city and of international importance: “Max Fabiani and the Soul of the World,” a biography of the Mitteleuropean architect; “8558 Hack,” about the life of the astrophysicist; “Paolo Budinich and the Paradoxes of Adventure,” about the co-founder of ICTP – International Center for Theoretical Physics – prod. SISSA. Works with the indie duo Baby Gelido, on theatrical-musical shows around the figure of James Joyce, produced by the City of Trieste and the Joyce-Svevo Museum. Edits the direction of “Le Amanti,” by E. Jelinek (prod.Bonaventura), “Anche le pulci hanno la tosse,” by F. Tomizza (prod.La Contrada), Mary Rose by J. Barrie (prod. Cut). She writes and performs radio plays for Radio Rai Uno Fvg. In theater she has been directed by, among others, Konstantin Bogomolov (“Crime and Punishment,” prod.Ert) ; Luca Ronconi (“War Acts,” “Biblioetica,” prod. Tst 2005), Massimo Castri (“Così è, se vi pare”, “La presidente”, “Finale di partita”, Ert 2008-2012), Monica Conti (“Else” from Miss Else, Out Off, 1998; “Le mutande,” Ert 2012), Serena Senigallia (“Bacchae,” Atir 1997), Janusz Wisniewski (Noah’s Ark, Poznan 2008), Gabriele Vacis (“Un canto per Torino, 1995), Thierry Salmon (“Around the Audience,” 1994), Giulio Costa (“Micòl e le altre,” Ferrara Off 2014). In cinema she is in “Il ragazzo invisibile” directed by Gabriele Salvatores, and in “Se chiudo gli occhi non sono più qui” by V. Moroni. She is “Santa Veronica” in the docu-fiction “Il risveglio di un gigante,” directed by G. Ziberna; “Cento anni” by Davide Ferrario, “Sei tornato,” by Stefano Mordini. He conducts theater-science courses for Sissa, and theater and expressive reading for Cut in Trieste and Hangar Teatri.
Claudio Rastelli
Composer, popularizer, teacher and pianist began his musical studies at the age of eight in Alessandro Materassi’s violin class. Years later he began studies in composition and piano, graduating in both at the Conservatory of Parma. He studied at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Franco Donatoni and at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Camillo Togni, undoubtedly the most important figure in his training as a composer. A pupil of Daniela Landuzzi for piano, after graduating he perfected his skills with Pier Narciso Masi. From 1991 to the present his music (chamber, for orchestra, for theater) has been performed in numerous European countries, the United States and Japan by soloists and ensembles such as Ex Novo Ensemble, Icarus Ensemble, Quartetto di Torino, AdM Ensemble, Duo Pepicelli, Frankfurt Strings, Wunderkammer Orchestra, Alfonso Alberti, Aldo Orvieto, Ciro Longobardi, Emanuele Arciuli. In addition to original compositions, his output includes reworkings (such as Disguises Nos. 1-2-3 from J. S. Bach, Little Melodies for Memory from B. Bartók, the play Babar from F. Poulenc, with Teatro Gioco Vita, which ran nearly 200 performances between Italy, Europe and the United States) and transcriptions from numerous composers (those of V. Ullmann’s Piano Sonatas are particularly appreciated). His compositions have been broadcast by RAI RadioTre and RAI 5; the latest broadcast is the melologue Sopravvissuti (from George Tabori), with Elio de Capitani and AdM Ensemble. He plans and participates in numerous outreach and in-depth activities by holding meetings, conferences, workshops and lecture-concerts for musical institutions, universities and schools. Every year hundreds of adults/youth/children participate in his proposals. He holds the chair of Piano Practice and Reading at the Conservatory of Trieste. Since 2001 he has been artistic director of the Amici della Musica di Modena.tri.
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