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		Aver Liekers meets Hein Hoop
Hein Hoop   HEIN HOOP’S books		In the early 80s we first met Hein Hoop at a joint concert in the Ostseehalle in Kiel. In the following years we often performed together, AVER LIEKERS playing music and Hein reading from his inexhaustible repertoire of poems, stories and wordly wisdom. In our current program we present a kaleidoscope from the works of Hein Hoop, with readings, songs in new musical settings and some of our own instrumental pieces. We take our audience with us on a journey to the people from the coast, shaped by wind, waves, schnapps and beer.   Hein Hoop (1927-1986) lived and worked as a free artist on the Eiderstedt peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein. He was a painter, sculptor, writer, journalist, action artist. He published works in Low and High German. His texts, often satirical or bizarre, have frequently been set to music, by Knut Kiesewetter, Hannes Wader, Fiete Kay and others. Hein was the inventor of Watt Art (watt = the mudflats characteristic of the North German coast). He organised the Wattenmeer Olympics with hurdle races in the mudflats and mud-bag slinging competitions. At his Wattenmeer Pestivals the watt was „occupied“ and tourists nested on breeding platforms on the sea-side of the dike. Hein would stand naked behind a lectern in the mudflats and lecture with the incoming tide up to his knees.
		Die Ameise ist stets auf Trab, sich für den Staat zu schinden. Nun, mir geht diese Tugend ab. Der Staat wird´s wohl verwinden.
music samples: (mpg3)		Klaas Piep To laat Ward ruuch mien Kind

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