Cansu Arat Group in the town hall

The content on this page was translated automatically.

Every year, musicians from the HfMT provide the musical accompaniment for the award ceremony of the Hannelore Greve Literature Prize when the €25,000 prize is presented at Hamburg City Hall. This year, however, the repertoire was a particular challenge. This year's prizewinner Juli Zeh had requested only pop songs: 1. Don't Know Why by Norah Jones, 2. Lost On You by LP and 3. Silver Lining (Clap Your Hands) by Imany. No problem for the Cansu Arat Group: the university's jazz formation created independent versions of these songs and jazzed them up stylistically - a great success for the five musicians:inn Cansu Arat - vocals, Hedwig Janko - alto saxophone, Kirill Kretsu - piano, Melanie Streitmatter - bass, Jacob Wagener - drums.

Background:
The Hannelore Greve Literature Prize has been awarded by the Hamburg Authors' Association for outstanding achievements in the field of German-language literature since 2004, alternating annually with the Walter Kempowski Literature Prize. On December 7, the writer Juli Zeh received the Hannelore-Greve Literature Prize, which is endowed with 25,000 euros. The 48-year-old accepted the award at a Senate reception in Hamburg City Hall. The author's highly acclaimed works include "Unter Leuten", "Über Menschen" and most recently "Zwischen Welten".