Entertaining Performances at the Cultural Evening

Many dedicated participants and a diverse array of performances made the traditional Cultural Evening a success.

The jazz ensemble kicked things off with “Work Song” and “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes,” featuring Talea Funk (10b, vocals), Tom Herfert (11a, tenor sax), Evelyn Damer (11b, alto sax), Samuel Ruff (11e, trombone), Marit Winterstein (9c, euphonium), and ensemble director Frank Wemme (bass and piano).

Fifth-graders Janne Elsaßer, Marie Grosse, Lina Hoyer, Lena Kissling, Antonia Kurlinsky, Carlotta Meyer, Felix Linne, Anneli Petri, Jona Schneider, and Emma Wagner recited autumn poems from the writing workshop with Kristina Sokoli.

Class 6c, led by Nicole Hohm, impressed the audience with their performance of “How Young Arthur Became King” as part of the “English On Stage” project-based learning program.

Under the title “The Empathetic School,” the Theater Club for Grades 5 & 6 (directed by Flûte Seifart) performed with Annica Bartsch, Zoë Closmann, Anna Feußner, Neyla Fritz, Celia Giebing, Marie Grosse, Rosalie Hainer, Antonia Kurlinsky, Carlotta Meyer, Stella Preiß, Sophia Rogosch, Livia Schulze, Ana Greta Törner, and Philipp Zielen.

Nela Haeberle, Emma Schnabel, and Lilian Seiler from class 7c presented some exciting highlights from the “Crime Novels” project-based learning course taught by Melisande Lauginiger.

“The Wolf and the Two Little Goats” was presented by Luisa Bamberger, Franka Preising, Anna Reinhardt, Zoe Reisch, and Lina Zippel (Writing Workshop, 6th grade, Lisa Braun).

This was followed by a poetry slam (Nela Haeberle, 7c, and Lilly Teetz, 10c), “Mariage d’amour” on the piano (Anna Steinfeldt, 8b), and a scene from *Dead Poets Society* (12th-grade DS class, Dagmar Müller) featuring Hannah Busch, Lars Dieling, Moritz Eichstädt, Frederic Feldmann, Raphael Hetche, Lena Joußen, Sam Kempkes, Lukas Kießling, Lars Lauer, Maximilian Lotz, Robert Mahl, Jaqueline Mopils, Dana Plamper, Niklas Pohl, Jacob Roth, Chiara Scheffczyk, Julian Seeger, Flûte Seifart, Janina Seip, Sophie Stöber, and Julian Zimmer.

Also presented was the music video created by the WU Film Class 8/9 during the 2017–18 school year, directed by Ines Vielhaben and featuring Finn and Sam Kempkes, Lilly Teetz, Amelie Schulze, Louisa Merle, Aaron Ruff, Lars Froemel, Robin Konnertz, and the WU Graffiti class. This was followed by the Hamilton Project (Talea Funk, 10b, director; Evelyn Damer, 11b; Lars Froemel, 10c; Svea Turba, 8a; Nela Haeberle, 7c), followed by the 11th-grade DS course led by Michael Schmidt, which presented the play “Schichtarbeit.” The cast included Veit Gemmer, Vivien Hallfeldt, Luca Ledro, Till Maier, Lasse Michel, Jonas Neirich, Malte Paulenz, Morten Röser, Nele Rupp, Amèlie Schreyer, Tim Schultheis, Hannes Schweitzer, Merle Schweitzer, Deciel Shongo, Finn Steinfeldt, Jonathan Tesseraux, Franca Törner, Simon Veyl, Walther Moses, and Calvin Weide.

The evening came to a close with the same performers who had opened it: The jazz ensemble sent the audience home with the songs “Dear Lord” and “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes.”