Natural science, as a well-known researcher recently said, is also culture.
That's one.
But art and science have always met, mingle and stimulate each other.
Frankfurt seems to be a kind of hotspot.
Fine art has long since found its way into the Senckenberg Museum.
For years, the Frankfurter Kunstverein has explored how strategies of nature, how research models of natural science can lead to fine arts, can be shown and applied.
And Goethe, Frankfurt's son of the muse and master of all classes, who researched, wrote nature poetry and summarized his botanical interest in a poem, thus led the ginkgo to an uninterrupted boom: the Goethe poem, bookmarks, buttons, ginkgo-shaped chains and thousands of ginkgo -Plants in pots are perhaps the most striking evidence of the faithful connection between art and natural history.
No deadly drama
Now, right next door to Goethe's birthplace, a new step is being dared: the death of insects is coming to the stage!
Well, not as a drama with a fatal outcome.
Rather as a poetic attempt to raise awareness of a question that affects us all.
To this end, the Volksbühne in the Cantate Hall, Goethe's neighbor, is teaming up with the Senckenberg Society, which was once suggested by Goethe himself, a threefold elective affinity, so to speak, in order to counteract the catastrophe with poetry.
On April 29 at 7:30 p.m. they come together, rhyme and rhizome, worm and storm and urge, beetle and Gottfried Keller.
The host Michael Quast has put together a whole program, from Goethe to Handke, combined with new music and sound by Olaf Pyras.
In order to fully unite art and science, Senckenbergers Viktor Hartung and Daniela Warzecha will bring natural research to the stage.
The whole thing is part of the "City Nature Challenge", which aims to get people to photograph the city's nature.
Who knows, maybe they'll write a poem about it once they've listened to Quast's comical and lyrical insect revue.