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Success for the HfMT Jazz Trio
The "Trio Peace," consisting of three HfMT jazz students—Lennart Meyer (bass/vocals), Jiuning Liu (vocals), and Lucas Etcheverria (guitar/vocals), won both the…
Concert of the prizewinners
The winners of this year's Elise Meyer Competition have been announced! With 10,000 euros each for the first prize, 3,000 euros for the second prize and 1,500…
Soyoung Park receives Berenberg Culture Prize 2026
Major awards for four young artists at the Elbphilharmonie on June 2: the Berenberg Culture Prize went to violinist Soyoung Park and the Berenberg Art Prize to…
Visit by the Senator at the start of the project
The Hamburg University of Music and Drama (HfMT) is receiving support for two transfer projects as part of Hamburg Innovation GmbH's "Calls for Transfer"…
Audience Award for Niyousha Azari
We warmly congratulate Niyousha Azari on winning the Körber Studio 2026 Audience Award! The festival is considered the most important platform for up-and-coming…
Premiere of The Magic Flute a complete success!
The director of the Theaterakademie, Sabina Dhein, said at the premiere party that you have to see this Magic Flute at least twice and enthusiastically praised…
zwoelf - the university magazine
"che contrasto d'affetti"- Ambivalence and ambiguity as the focus of the freshly printed zwoelf-issue no. 38 of the summer semester 2026
Vacillating between love and hate towards the dazzling monster called Don Giovanni, Donna Elvira sings a recitative bursting with inner tension before her aria "Mi tradì" in Mozart's "opera of all operas". It says: "che contrasto d'affetti in sen ti nasce!" A stark clash of emotions rages within her. This psychological ambiguity raging in a single human breast can also be rediscovered in larger contexts, not least in the study of Music and Drama. Time and again, the most relevant things only emerge from friction. In view of our complex present, it is therefore no coincidence that this issue of zwoelf, our No. 38, is dedicated to a pair of terms that describe tensions and ambiguities with particular precision: Ambivalence and ambiguity. Both phenomena play a central role in the arts. They demonstrate a particular strength of artistic forms of expression: the ability to enable experiences that cannot be reduced to a single perspective.
This issue of the university magazine zwoelf focuses on the potential of ambiguity in its thematic section. We wish you an inspiring read of zwoelf no. 38, which is available free of charge in the foyers of the HfMT.
The e-paper of zwoelf is ready for you to discover!
The printed edition will be sent by post with immediate effect. If you would like to receive zwoelf regularly by post free of charge, please send us an e-mail with your address to redaktion.zwoelf@hfmt-hamburg.de