Jonathan Bratoëff

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Jonathan Bratoëff was born in France in 1974. He is a guitarist and composer as well as being a co-founder of the F-IRE Collective. He has released several albums on the F-IRE Collective’s own label and has also played with such musicians as Julian Siegel, Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson. Genres are unimportant for Jonathan. Instead, he likes to get into an open dialogue with the audience, without prejudice or bias. The moment is what counts.

Publications (selection):
Life’s Life (Album). Masterton Studio und Börner Studio, Berlin 2018–2019.
A Life in color (Album). Masterton Studio und Börner Studio, Berlin 2017.

Festival Content

LABO(R)LABÉ

takes place in September

“How do we mingle our kisses so happily that everyone can find their joy in everyone else?”
Radically sensuous, deeply moving and astonishingly familiar. This is how the sonnets of the French Renaissance poet Louise Labé (1526–1566), also called “the pretty ropemaker“ of Lyons, sound. The perspective of the Petrarchan tradition of poetic adoration of an unattainable lady is turned on its head for the first time by Louise Labé. Her poems yearn from the feminine perspective for the man – a revolutionary break that even now attracts fascination, furore and arguments.

Agnès Guipont  • Jonathan Bratoëff • Pauline Dupuy