MUSIC IN THE THERESIENSTADT CONCENTRATION CAMP eLEARNING
On JCOM's free eLearning platform, pupils, students, and other interested parties gain insight into the cultural life of the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The focus is on a special recording of Viktor Ullmann's last work, "The Lay of Love and Death of the Cornet Christoph Rilke," narrated by Sabin Tambrea. The platform is designed to be completed in a double lesson (90 minutes).
In three virtual 3D rooms, users discover various materials on the topic: photos, interviews with contemporary witnesses, original documents, information about Viktor Ullmann, and the music recording as a 360° video, allowing viewers to determine their own perspective. The eLearning platform is entirely browser-based and can be used free of charge on virtually all internet-enabled devices.
INFORMATION MATERIAL FOR TEACHERS
This PDF document contains important information on using the eLearning platform, as well as complete materials for students.
Here you will find the worksheets whose solutions create the access to the other rooms.
DETAILS
Over the course of a double lesson, students are introduced to the topic of music creation in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, particularly emphasizing the discrepancy between the horrific living conditions and the rich cultural life and creativity. Users of the eLearning platform move freely through 3D spaces in which various tasks must be solved. The solutions then open further spaces with additional information. The materials and tasks are suitable for all subjects, starting from 9th grade, but are also of interest to older users.
The centerpiece of Music in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp is the JCOM's new recording of the work "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod" (The Lay of Love and Death) by the cornet Christoph Rilke. The Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullmann wrote the work in Theresienstadt, where he was interned from 1942 to 1944. This particularly elaborate recording, which can be experienced as a 360° video, was recorded in several stages: the music was recorded in the studio, then musicians and narrator (Sabin Tambrea) traveled to Theresienstadt for filming, where musicians play Ullmann's music in various rooms. Online, users have the opportunity to take over the camera direction of the music themselves, freely switching between the individual image tracks.
The eLearning platform was created with financial support from the German Federal Cultural Foundation as part of the dive in funding program. Partners for the didactic and digital implementation are the DigilLab at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the XRHub.