Events
Wed, Sep 20
|New York - House of the Redeemer
Beyond love... on the other side of air
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2023, 6:30 PM
New York - House of the Redeemer, 7 E 95th St, New York, NY 10128, USA
About The Event
Dear friends,
Welcome back to NYResonance! We begin our season with an enigmatic and somewhat puzzling story of a great Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke,
" Beyond Love…On the Other Side of Air."Rainer Maria Rilke confided some of his most intimate thoughts to a woman whom he had never met. Magda von Hattingberg, a Viennese concert pianist, sent him an admiring letter in 1914. For three months after that the poet, who was separated from his wife, poured out his anguish and yearnings to her. He renamed her "Benvenuta" - the Welcome One. After 26 days of letters exchanged almost daily, a meeting - proposed by the young woman and consented to by Rilke who was in a feverish state of half anticipation and half dread - took place in a Berlin hotel. Then the letters ceased. The couple’s sojourn together lasted only a few months and …we don’t what…