kammerton aa | aalen nach dem krieg | ein hrpoem

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kammerton a'a | ein hörpoem von martyn schmidt

Aalens erster Nachkriegsbürgermeister Karl Otto Balluff (1895 - 1950) war gelernter Klaviermechanikmacher. Die Aalener Klavierfabrik Haegele (1866- 1973) diente von Mai 1945 bis 1947 bei der Entnazifizierung. als ein Ort der Spruchkammerverfahren. Nicht nur als Doppel-A in »Aalen«, auch beim Stimmen eines Klaviers spielt das »a« als Kammerton eine zentrale Rolle.

»kammerton a'a« zeichnet auf poetische Weise ein Bild, wie die Stadt Aalen ab 1945 gleich einem Klavier neu gestimmt und repariert wird. Das Spannen neuer Saiten und neues Spiel der Klaviatur entlockt der Nachkriegsstadt erste demokratische Melodien. In der Nach-NS-Zeit wird auf der Ostalb der Weg frei für einen Klang der Freiheit, der bis heute in die Resonanzräume von Frieden und Demokratie nachhallt.

Der aus Aalen stammende Klangkünstler und Dichter Martyn Schmidt hat mit »kammerton a'a« ein Hörpoem aus dokumentarischer Soundart, Pianokunst und kunstvollem Radiofeature geschaffen. Zeitzeuge Erwin Hafner erzählt, wie er als Bub in Aalen die frühe Nachkriegszeit miterlebte. Klavierbaumeister Klaus Striegel (Ebnat) gewährt Einblicke in die Kunst des Klavierstimmens. Hermann Mößner (Essingen) erzählt von seinem Vater Eugen Mößner, der fast 50 Jahre, zum Schluss als Werkmeister, in Aalens Klavierfabrik arbeitete. Anne Kullmann trägt eine Lyrik-Rezitation bei.

In Gedenken an Fanny Kahn

Historisches Bildmaterial © Stadtarchiv Aalen | http://www.aalen.de/geschichte

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kammerton a'a | an audiopoem by martyn schmidt

»kammerton a'a« (»concert pitch a'a«) ties oral history documents by contemporary witnesses, site-specific field recordings, poetry, music and soundart into a fascinating audiobook-bundle. The south-german city Aalen, district principal town of the Ostalb (the region of the east of Swabian Alps) and having been liberated in 1945 by the US-troops from the nazi-regime, becomes in this soundwork a representative burning lens reflecting the Nachkriegsdeutschland (post-war germany). Aalen (today around 68.000 inhabitants) was biographical stage of such different historic figures as Hitlers favourite Wehrmachtsgeneral Erwin Rommel and tragically failed Georg Elser who tried to assinate Hitler.

The audiopoem uses the musical instrument piano and the process of tuning a piano as a central metaphor. Directly after the war, Aalen's former piano factory Haegele (1866- 1973) became a central location of the so called Spruchkammerverfahren: Here, within the scope of the denazification (Entnazifizierung), a local court of arbitration dispensed justice and classification on the citizens of Aalen. Aalen's first post-war mayor, Karl Otto Balluff, was a learned piano-mechanics' maker.

»kammerton a'a« poetically depicts how Aalen, like a piano, got newly tuned and repaired in 1945 and its subsequent years. By the re-stretching of strings and new tunes on the keyboard rise is given to first melodies of democracy. By considerate tuning and the adjustment of screw threads in the socio-cultural mechanics, there is an paving the way for the sound of liberty – still resonating in today's echo-chambers of peace and democracy.

THE VOICES | LANGUAGE | THE PATOIS:
Three voices are being heard as the main story-tellers. Erwin Hafner (*1932, awarded Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany), as a contemporary witness (and former editor of the post-war funded local newspaper) tells about his experiences as a teenager in post-war Aalen. Hermann Mößner tells about his father Eugen Mößner (1910 – 1976) who worked for 50 years in Aalen's former piano factory, constructing and tuning pianos. The working sounds have been recorded in the working studio of piano craftsman Klaus Striegel, located as well in Aalen. Striegel tells about the piano-factory's history.

SOUND CONCEPT:
Besides some site-specific field recordings, the source of all sounds is a piano, manucfactured at Aalens piano-factory Haegele.

THE TITLE: »kammerton a'a«
The title »kammerton a'a« picks up the german word »Spruchkammer« (court of arbitration, jurisdiction), »kammer« meaning »chamber«, »spruch« meaning »saying«, »dictum«.

»kammerton« is german for the standard pitch A440, the musical pitch corresponding to an audio frequency of 440 Hz, which , as a tuning standard for the musical note of A, is commonly used as a reference frequency to calibrate acoustic equipment and to tune pianos, violins, and other musical instruments. While the musical note of the standard pitch is A, the license plate on Aalen's cars reads »AA«. The octavo a-a`' is a recurring musical motif in »kammerton a'a«, as well as the specific scale of piano tuning.

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