Nudem’s guitar: third station

Nudem’s guitar has gone through another station on its hike. Here the great SONiA disappear fear plays her song “A VOiCE FOR NUDEM”. She wrote it for Nudem and also included Kurdish text passages.  

Nudem’s guitar: second station

Christoph Scheffler plays “Der Pfahl” (“L’Estaca” by Lluís Llach) in the version he has translated into German. He plays the piece on the guitar, which goes from hand to hand and ends up in prison at Nudem Durak. The guitar shall be the replacement for Nudem’s original guitar, which the …

The concert

The concert on September 8th was a moving experience for all participants. Impressive was the wide range of different styles of music that shaped the evening. We have learned that Nudem Durak’s family was able to follow the concert live on Facebook. Nudem could not, of course, but she knew …

Further attacks by prison staff

On September 27, Nudem could call her brother. She reported increased attacks by the prison staff. We have already reported that some time ago all the musical instruments were taken away from her and that her guitar was destroyed. Nudem announced that now all her books have been taken away …

Psychologically breaking the prisoners

On the day of our concert, we got news from another prisoner from Bayburt Prison, where also Nudem ist imprisoned. After a telephone conversation with his imprisoned sister Zeynep Erdem, Musa Erdem reported that sick prisoners were not allowed to go to the doctor. There are cell raids in the …

Concert for Nudem

The concert on September 8th was a great success. Here you can see the trailer again:

A new guitar for Nudem Durak

Last year, the prison staff broke Nudems guitar. We bought her a new one. Various artists have played a song for Nudem on this guitar. And more artists will do so. The guitar will get passed on from one musician to the next. Here you can see the first song …

Benefit concert Saturday 8th Sept 2018

Start: 7:00 pm Admission: 6:00 pm Bahnhof Pauli Spielbudenplatz 21-22, 20359 Hamburg Advance sale: 9 € Box office: 10 € Tickets: Eventim For the freedom of art! For the freedom of music! For the freedom of the people! We sing, play and speak for Nudem Durak: Banana Concrete Elbe 3 David …

Photo from the prison

Here’s a picture Nudem sent us out of jail along with the letter we posted recently. We blurred the faces of her fellow prisoners to protect their privacy. But to be clear: everyone in the picture is laughing. We are very happy about that. But it’s a snapshot. That certainly …

Letter No 3 from Nudem

We received the following letter from Nudem: I greet you with love and respect with the warm heart of the peoples of the Middle East, who have been crushed by pain through history to this day. Writing you from this my country under these difficult conditions gives me morale and …