Peter Lohmeyer reads Hemingway's classic about the struggle for happiness

Ernest Hemingway's epic tale "The Old Man and the Sea" can be experienced as a musical-poetic reading at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum on April 4. The well-known film and theater actor Peter Lohmeyer and percussionist Johannes Fischer, celebrated as a sound magician among percussionists, bring the story of the old fisherman's battle against nature to the stage in an imaginative and gripping version. Language and sounds combine and interpenetrate, offering an original and personal take on this classic of world literature. Only a few tickets are still available for the performance.

For 84 days, old Santiago has not caught a fish and in his desperation ventures further and further out to sea. Suddenly he has a huge fish on the line. An unequal battle begins, at the end of which the fisherman loses his catch back to nature despite his best efforts. "One can be destroyed, but one must not give up" is the message of the novella, for which Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Peter Lohmeyer's multi-faceted voice and haunting reading are carried by the special soundscape conceived by Johannes Fischer. It combines a variety of different percussion and plucked instruments with an electro-acoustic sound table of flotsam and jetsam, gongs, cymbals and drums. Poetic, intimate moments are discharged in archaic thunderstorms of sound and tell the ancient myth of the struggle for survival between man and nature.