Porträt Fabio Nieder

Fabio Nieder

Man muss schon einen merkwürdigen Appetit haben, um sich so zu ernähren wie die Hauptfigur in Fabio Nieders Musiktheater über den Bilder fressenden Maler Vito Thümmel. Der Bilderfresser, so heißt die Szene der Oper von Fabio Nieder, die heute Abend im Kölner Funkhaus vom WDR Sinfonieorchester und WDR Rundfunkchor uraufgeführt wird.

Fabio Nieders Bilderfresser spielt in Triest. Und vielleicht kann diese Geschichte auch nur in Triest spielen, der Heimat von Fabio Nieder, der ehemals einzigen Hafenstadt Österreichs, dem östlichsten Zipfel Italiens, den auch Tito gerne seinem Staatenverbund Jugoslawien einverleibt hätte, weil dort vor nicht allzu langer Zeit mehr Slowenen lebten, als selbst in Ljubliana.

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World premiere of Fabio Nieder's Der Bilderfresser for piano, accordion, percussions, 18 orchestral groups and mixed choir on 17th February in Köln.
The work, commissioned by the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), will be performed by the WDR Sinfoniorchester - WDR Rundfunk Chor and the soloists Marino Formenti, Teodoro Anzellotti together with the Schlagquartett Köln. The conductor will be Emilio Pomarico.
Der Bilderfresser (The devourer of images) was conceived right from the start as a scene in Nieder's music theatre project entitled Thümmel or the extinction of the word. The action of the whole of this music theatre work revolves around the historically true figure of the Trieste painter Vito von Thümmel (born in Vienna and raised in Trieste), who, as a result of repeated drinking binges, developed a grave form of mental illness. He was eventually committed to Trieste's huge lunatic asylum, where he spent the last years of his life.
Speaking of the work, Fabio Nieder says: "The idea of the "bilderfresser" is my own. The vision of the by-now sick painter, in a space emptied of objects, in which the unfamiliar elements of his flickering dreams floating freely around rise up in a plethora of images each one disassociated from the other, provided me with the optical hook for my musical composition. Spellbound, Thümmel, like a child ogling a mass of toys strewn about his playroom, gazes on at this universe of images. Each one of the 18 images, which here, inside this non-space, enjoys a life of its own, has its own special instrumental voice, realised by one of the orchestral groups. And each one, by virtue of this abstract instrumental substance, seems to be a party to eternity - up until the point when the voices of the invisible choir (positioned behind the public, as though a reflection of the orchestral groups) together with that of the pianist Thümmel put their own hand to the work. And at that point the images vanish, one after another, in the blink of an eye!"