The award-winning social music project "Himmel über Adelsheim" is entering its second round - with a new cast of young people. Together with the SKOhr-Labor team, the SKO musicians and other coaches, young men from Adelsheim prison are developing a stage play with classical singing and rapping. In this artistic process, all participants meet as equal partners on an equal footing. Under the musical direction of Viktoriia Vitrenko and directed by Nina Kurzeja, the inmates will rehearse songs by Franz Schubert, for example, and write their own lyrics. Their personal stories will be turned into impressive raps, which they will then perform on stage at the concert. They will be guided by rapper Danny Fresh and beatboxer Pheel. In a creative process lasting several months, a new, multi-layered Gesamtkunstwerk of string music, beatbox rhythms, singing and rap with a few surprises is created. What is created from rap and classical music behind thick walls over the course of several months unfolds its concentrated energy on stage as "Himmel über Adelsheim".

Music: Selected songs from "Winterreise", op. 89 Franz Schubert, quartet "Aus meinem Leben" Bedrich Smetana and other works

Singing, rap, lyrics and performance: young people from Adelsheim prison
Staging and dramaturgy: Nina Kurzeja
Musical direction and conducting: Viktoriia Vitrenko
Bedrich Smetana direction: Susanne von Gutzeit
JVA workshops rap and human beatbox: Pheel (Philip Scheibel)
JVA rap workshops: Danny Fresh (Daniel Ohler)
Music arrangements (rap), Rhodes piano and synthesiser: Sebastian Schuster
Music arrangements (Schubert): Ui-Kyung Lee
Project assistance and dance: Sophie Gisbertz
The crow: Martina Gunkel
Set, stage and costume design: Marie Freihofer
Video/Visuals: Alexander Schmidt
Lighting design and stage technology: Alexander Joseph
Sound engineering: Matthias Schneider-Hollek, Nicolas Fritz
Project management: Katharina Gerhard

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

In active cooperation with employees of Adelsheim Prison: Klaus Brauch-Dylla, Erkan Satilmis, Linda Ullrich, colleagues from the AVD (General Prison Service) and Works Service.
Our special thanks go to Carmen Bronner, Christel Peschke, Martin Reiland, Tamara Scherer and Swen Speth, as well as the prison management: Katja Fritsche, Jöel Ackermann and Lisa Radl.