Robert von Hornstein News
german composer
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- writer, composer
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2012-11-23 23:55:11
'Working on this piece I realised that the notion of hearing voices naturally lends itself to musical ideas and exploration'In the Prinzhorn collection at Heidelberg psychiatric university hospital is a jacket that was made, and worn, by a seamstress, Agnes Richter, who in the late 18th century was an inmate in a German mental institution. Agnes had created a beautifully tailored jacket from ripped up hospital uniforms, and covered every inch of it with embroidered writing. Although largely indecipherable, a few words and phrases have now been decoded.I came across this remarkable artefact in Gail Hornstein's book Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. Hornstein, quite unusually for someone working in this field, is interested in patients telling their own stories. Her book forms part of an increasingly large body of work that can be characterised as protest literature in that it records a sense of injustice at […]
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