To look the people in the mouth.
That was Luther's motto in the Bible translation.
But the people also looked the people in the mouth, literally speaking,
to the reformer.
And so, in the time of the Reformation, many folk songs were translated into
sports songs for the pope, but also some flyers were censored.
Today, many of these pieces belong to the cultural treasures of the Zwickauer
Ratsschulbibliothek.
At the traditional New Year's concerts in the Zwickauer Robert Schumann Haus,
it is by no means always just about Schumann.
In this year, songs from the time of the Reformation were the subject of the 1st of
January.
This one had a faster pace in Zwickau than anywhere else.
And so it is logical that the Zwickauer Ratsschulbibliothek has a large number of
printings that were directed against the church of the pope.
Some of these were already provided with notes.
For many others, the director of the Robert Schumann Haus, Dr. Thomas
Szynowczyk, had to find out the material first and put it together accordingly.
With him on stage were Dominik Schneider, the Essen flute virtuoso, and Andreas
Fischer, the tenor of Leipzig.
Andreas Fischer, the tenor of Leipzig.
The Hure of Babylon.
The interplay of the peoples and religions of pre-Christian Babylon, in which the
Jewish writers in exile first brought the Old Testament, the Torah, to paper,
was also the symbol of exile and insolence for the Reformatory Christians.
The instrumentarium of that time was also quite extensive.
This is how Dominik Schneider played a string instrument on the Quintera.
Thomas Szynowczyk, the tenor of Leipzig, used the numerous keyboard instruments
such as organ, cimbalo, shelf, portable and harp.
No, there were no football fans in the Middle Ages.
But the theme song of the evening, Nun treiben wir den Babst heraus,
is the enclosure of a children's song from the Fastnachtszeit, in which, instead of
winter, the Roman church prince is now driven away.
The little boy is driven away.
The right God is next to him.
That is God's will, the prince and priest, even though his heart is broken.
It was the first one at that time.
Today it would be called a media battle.
Not only on the artistic level, but especially with Derbenhohn and Spott,
the opponents started to fight each other.
100 years later also with weapons.
In the end, the reformation took place in many German countries and today these
songs and pieces of music are part of the cultural heritage of Germany.