Dates/Events
***2025**** Duo TonSatz celebrates its 25th anniversary!
Presentation of our Marianne project (partly in the context of art exhibitions of works by the painter Marianne Lichtwald Hallbauer) at the following locations (will be updated continuously):
Trondheim/Trøndelag/Norway
Organiser: Trondhjems Kunstforening
Location: Bispegata 9A, 7013 Trondheim
2027 | exact date to be announced
Selbu/Trøndelag/Norway
Organiser: Neadalen Kunstforening
Location: probably Selbu Kirke, Gjelbakken 14, 7580 Selbu
2027 | exact date to be announced
Folldal/Innlandet/Norway
Organiser: City of Folldal
Location: probably Folldal Kirke, Kirkevegen 2, 2580 Folldal
September 2027 or June 2028 | exact date to be announced
Selbu/Trøndelag/Norway
Art exhibition at the Kulviksvingen Gallery
The Neadal Art Association presents artworks on the theme of local emigration, migration and identity.
As part of this, three poems and pieces of music by the duo TonSatz will be presented in the form of a video screening on the theme of emigration and Marianne Lichtwald Hallbauer's emigration to Norway.
Sunday, 7 September 2025 | 3:30 p.m.
Location: Kulkviksvingen Gallery, Selbuvegen 1569, Selbu
Visby/Sweden
Coordinated work residency grants:
Eva Batt – Composer-in-Residence (Visby International Centre for Composers – VICC)
Christiane Schwarze – Work Residency (Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators – BCWT)
September 2025
Composer's & Writer's Talk
Title: alles ist lose, nichts gewiss | everything is loose, nothing is certain
Introduction to Eva and Christiane's literary-musical working methodology based on their multi-year Swiss-Swedish ‘Stone Project’.
Selected compositions and poems of the already completed Swiss-part will be presented and explained.
Illustration how the formation of the Swiss Alps, as well as photographs and drawings by Swiss artists inspired the duo.
The poems will be read in German. A literary English translation will be provided.
Tuesday, 23rd September 2025 | 7 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Tonsättarnas Hus, Skeppsbron 18, Visby/Gotland/Sweden
Trøndelag, Innlandet, Vestlandet and Hallingdal/Norway
Study trip for further research on the trail of Marianne Lichtwald Hallbauer in the context of the project at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV)
August 2025
Skånevik/Vestlandet/Norway
The Duo VÄXLA (clarinetist Hanne Dyrendahl Seter and cellist Astrid Hanson Wallgren) performed Eva Batta's composition ‘En Dans for Marianne’ as part of a concert at Gjestgjevargarden.
Saturday, 19 July 2025
Location: Gjestgjevargarden (lovingly restored historic wooden house from 1785, now a café and village museum).
Trondheim/Norway
Working residency grant from the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) Foundation
(Category: Interdisciplinary AiR) | ‘Norway Project’ – Part 2
Christiane Schwarze (literature) and Eva Batt (composition)
June/July 2025
Trondheim/Norway
Reading with audio performance & artist talk
The artists will present excerpts from their current project, which they began during their artist residency at LKV last year.
Wednesday, 25 June | 12:00 noon
Location: Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Mellomveien 3abc/Trondheim
Vättis/St. Gallen/Switzerland | UNESCO World Heritage Day 2025
Presentation/exhibition of our Switzerland project as part of World Heritage Day 2025 and the opening of the new UNESCO TektonikArena Sardona visitor centre.
Saturday, 14 June
Location: UNESCO TektonikArena Sardona visitor centre in the artists' village of Vättis/St. Gallen
Information here: Schweiz-Projekt
Trondheim/Norway
Working residency grant from the Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder (LKV) Foundation
(Category: Interdisciplinary AiR) | ‘Norway Project’ – Part 1
Christiane Schwarze (literature) and Eva Batt (composition)
August 2024
Trondheim/Norway
Lecture on the beach
Saturday, 10 August 2024 | 9:00 p.m.
Location: Korsvika/Trondheim
Trondheim, Norway
Reading with audio performance & artist talk
The artists will present excerpts from their project last year, which was created during their artist residency at Skulpturenweg Vättis, Switzerland, in collaboration with Swiss photo artist Korinna Fröhlich.
Wednesday, 21 August | 12:30 p.m.
Location: Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Mellomveien 3abc/Trondheim
Kunstgarten Budde-Haus Leipzig
As part of the project: Set your words free
Presentation of Christiane Schwarze's poem Im See des Tages (In the Lake of the Day)
September 2023
Vättis/Canton of St. Gallen/Switzerland
Work and residence scholarship from the Skulpturenweg Vättis association
Christiane Schwarze (literature) and Eva Batt (composition)
June/July 2023
Sant'Abbondio/Ticino/Switzerland
Working stay sponsored by the Fondazione Eduard Bick
Christiane Schwarze (literature) and Eva Batt (composition)
April/May 2022
Schwälmer Dorfmuseum Holzburg e.V.
Reading as part of the ‘Literature at the Blue Hour’ series on the theme of ‘Home and Exile,’
Christiane Schwarze reads her text Franz-Schubert-Straße, which appeared in the anthology Heimatstimmen.
Sunday, 30 January 2022 | 4 p.m. - Cancelled due to coronavirus!
Location: Hohlweg 2a, 34637 Schrecksbach, OT Holzburg
Giessen – Ulenspiegel
Joint public reading organised by literature magazine Georg*ette
Thursday, 23 September 2021 | 6:30 p.m.
Location: Seltersweg 55, 35390 Giessen
Soltau – Waldmühle Library
Closing event for the 2020 Soltau Artist Residency Scholarship
Poetry & Music | Presentation Excerpts The Silence of Shadows – Mosaic of a Search
Christiane Schwarze ⦁ Poetry and Recitation
Eva Batt Composition ⦁ Explanation of the project funded by three countries with sample audio presentations.
Wednesday, 2 September 2020 | 8 p.m.
Location: Bibliothek Waldmühle Mühlenweg 4, 29614 Soltau
Soltau – Working scholarship Soltau Artists' Residence
At the invitation of the town of Soltau and the Friends of the Artists' Residence Association
Christiane Schwarze (literature) and Eva Batt (composition)
August 2020
El Hierro/Spain
As part of LABORATORIOS ARTISTICOS “ISLA CON ALMA”
Organisers: casArte and BIMBACHE openART
Musically staged reading
The artists will present excerpts from their current works.
Thursday, 5 December 2019 | 7 p.m.
Location: Casa Rural El Sitio, Calle la Carrera 26, 38911 Frontera/El Hierro
El Hierro/Spain (Canary Islands) – Artists-in-Residence
At the invitation of casArte and BIMBACHE openART
Coordinated residency for literature (Christiane Schwarze) and composition (Eva Batt)
Nov./Dec. 2019
Sandkvie Studio – Schweden (Gotland)
Oktober 2019
Audiobook recordings of our musical-literary project The Silence of the Shadows
With our Musical Guests:
Angela Frontera • drumset & percussion • Brasil | Germany
Emilio Sacarias Estrada Bencomo • violin • Cuba | Sweden
Nils Ossman • double bass • Sweden
Further musical guests (These recordings have already taken place in Germany)
Elke Saller • marimbaphone • Germany
Zsuzsa Debre • Violine • Ungarn | Germany
Bellwald/Switzerland – Bellwald Church
Poetry & contemporary music
Closing event of the Writer & Composer-in-Residence
The artists present their interdisciplinary approach and excerpts from their current ongoing project Das Schweigen der Schatten (The Silence of Shadows)
Premiere of new works
Musical guests:
Shkodran Osmanaj ⦁ double bass ⦁ Berner Symphonieorchester | Kosovo | Switzerland
Paul Locher ⦁ violin ⦁ concertino kammerorchester | Brig | Switzerland
Thursday, 27. December 2018 | 6 pm
Bellwald, Switzerland – Writer & Composer-in-Residence
Work and residence scholarship from the Canton of Valais and the artbellwald.ch association
Coordinated scholarships for literature (Christiane Schwarze) and composition (Eva Batt)
Late autumn 2018
Schloss Styrum/Mülheim a.d. Ruhr
German premiere
Eva Batts' composition Sommerschatten (Summer Shadows), arranged for classical piano sextet and
the accompanying poem Lichtwechsel (Change of Light) by Christiane Schwarze
Presented by Zsuzsa Debre with her Ensemble De Pré and Christiane Schwarze
Sunday, 17. Jun2 2018 | 8 pm
Visby, Sweden – Artists in Residence
Coordinated work-residence scholarships:
Composer-in-Residence (Visby International Centre for Composers – VICC)
Eva Batt – Invitation to a composition scholarship
Work residency (Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators)
Christiane Schwarze – Invitation to a literature scholarship
Spring 2018
Visby/Sweden – Foyer Almedalsbiblioteket (Universität Uppsala)
The Silence of the Shadows
Musically literary staging – closing event from composer's & writer's residency
Friday, May 11th, 2018 / 8:00 pm
Location: Cramérgatan 5, 621 57 Visby
Marnay-sur-Seine/France
Artists in Residence (supported by the Fondation Ténot)
Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (CAMAC)
Coordinated residency for literature (Christiane Schwarze) and composition (Eva Batt)
Winter 2017
Soltau – Waldmühle Library
Closing event for the 2017 Soltau Work Stay Scholarship
Premiere of a musically staged reading: Sommerwaldspaziergang
‘Friends of the Soltau Artists' Residence’ and ‘Soltauer Gespräche e.V.’
Soltau – Soltau Working Scholarship 2017
At the invitation of the City of Soltau and the Friends of the Artists' Residence Association
Coordinated scholarships for literature (Christiane Schwarze) and composition (Eva Batt)
Late summer 2017
Alsfeld – Old Dairy
Alsfeld Culture Days 2017
Musically staged reading: Café Zeitvergessen
Cologne – St. Matthew's Church
Musically staged reading as part of the event ‘Du sollst kein unbeteiligter Zuschauer sein’ (You shall not be an uninvolved spectator)
Initiator Holger Evang-Lorenz in cooperation with Geest-Verlag
Marburg – Radio Unerhört
Broadcast ‘Jazz-Zeit-Extra’
Musical excerpts from the audio book Café Zeitvergessen
Mülheim an der Ruhr – Mülheimer Lesebühne
Musically staged reading: Café Zeitvergessen
Fulda – Kulturzentrum Kreuz
Musically staged reading: Café Zeitvergessen
Berlin – Terzo Mondo
Political Poetry Award Ceremony 2015/2016 – Thou shalt not be an uninvolved spectator
First prize awarded to Christiane Schwarze – Audio performance
Geest Verlag and Stefan Hölscher
Soltau – Bibliothek Waldmühle
Closing event for the 2015 Soltau Working Residency Scholarship:
Musical reading: Café Zeitvergessen
Soltau – Soltau Work Stay Scholarship
At the invitation of the City of Soltau and the Friends of the Artists' Residence Association
Coordinated scholarships for literature (Christiane Schwarze) and composition (Eva Batt)
Autumn 2015
Leipzig – Art Fair 2015 – Leipzig Art Fair
Houses seek stories
Project Babel 2015 by artist Sandra Schmidt.
Literary contribution by Christiane Schwarze as part of the Gesamtkunstwerk
Darmstadt – Bessunger Knabenschule Cultural Centre
Guest appearance with Angela Frontera as part of her CD presentation ‘O Tempo’
Poetic-musical candles for Rosanna Tavares
Poetry & music in memory of the late artist Rosanna Tavares (Duo Rosanna & Zélia)
Marburg – Café Vetter
As part of the ‘Literature at 11’ event series of the New Literary Society Marburg
Musically staged reading: Café Zeitvergessen
Frankfurt/Main – DIE FABRIK Cultural Centre
Premiere of the audio book Café Zeitvergessen
Munich – Radio LORA
Presentation of the anthology “Du sollst kein unbeteiligter Zuschauer sein” (Geest Verlag), including the award-winning text Die Fremde by Christiane Schwarze (musically staged by Eva Batt)
Salzburg/Austria – radiofabrik – Stoned Poets
As part of the special broadcast on the anthology TrümmerSeele (Sternenblick Verlag): Christiane Schwarze's text Unter den Kanaldeckeln – musically staged by Eva Batt.
Darmstadt – Radio Darmstadt – Special Feature Drumheads
As part of a portrait of drummer and percussionist Angela Frontera.
She reported on her involvement in the audio book Café Zeitvergessen and future joint projects.
The soundtrack to the episode Der Kirschholztisch was broadcast as a music sample from the audio book.
Frankfurt/Main – hr2 Doppelkopf
As part of ‘70 Years of Jazz in Hesse’ – portrait of Lindy Huppertsberg.
Brief presentation of the audiobook Café Zeitvergessen and broadcast of Eva Batts' composition Ouvertüre from the accompanying musical cycle.
Fürth – LESEN! Festival
Antho?-Logisch! Literature Prize Award Ceremony
Christiane Schwarze receives 2nd prize
Wolfsburg – Award ceremony for the Wolfsburg Literature Prize
Christiane Schwarze receives 1st prize
Munich – Literaturhaus München
Cultural programme as part of the EuroGames
Berlin
Cultural programme in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs Berlin and Institute for Social Work and Social Pedagogy Frankfurt
Salzburg (Austria) – Literaturhaus Salzburg
As part of the Amnesty International event No Violence Against Women
Ahaus – Villa van Delden
Cultural programme as part of International Women's Day
Cologne – Casa Usera (Spanish monastery)
As part of the book presentation by Wort und Mensch Verlag
Bonn – Hildegardis-Verein e.V.
Cultural programme / Women – Studies – Promotion
Luxembourg Esch-sur-Alzette
Cultural programme as part of International Women's Day
Wetzlar – Colchesteranlage
Matinee as part of the Labyrinth Project
Ulster / Switzerland
Carla Bernasocci reads from the works of Christiane Schwarze
Göttingen
Europe-wide day of action and protest for the equality of people with disabilities, supported by Aktion Mensch
Nuremberg – Gewerbemuseeumsplatz
Literary transformation of the Munich photo exhibition Emotions
Kiel – Halle 400, large hall
Closing event of the European Year of People with Disabilities for Schleswig-Holstein.
Diakonisches Werk
Hessischer Rundfunk (hr4)
Portrait of the author Christiane Schwarze
Marburg Radio Unerhört
Several appearances on the programme Wortwerk by the association Schreibwerkstatt e.V. Marburg
Dortmund – University of Dortmund
Cultural project Women with Disabilities
Berlin / Ballhaus Rixdorf
Musically staged reading: On Love and Other Complications
Kirtorf / Cultura 2000 art gallery
Musically staged reading: Sound-Sentence-Image Transformations
Haiger / Town Hall
Cultural programme as part of the 20th anniversary of the Rheuma-Liga
Aschaffenburg
Cultural programme as part of the European Year of Equal Opportunities for All
Beckum / Stadttheater, großer Saal
Cultural programme as part of International Women's Day
Bottrop / Café Siebeck
Literature Forum Bottrop
Nordenham
Cultural programme as part of International Women's Day