Enrico Floriddia: Queen of Saba Event

Bildungsroman conveys artistic research on the life of Eduard Glaser – astronomer, epigraphist, archaeologist and expert of Judeo-Arabic culture in Southern Arabia. Eduard Glaser lived all his life as a stranger. Born into a Jewish family in the region of to-day Czech Republic in the middle of the 19th century, he spent his life wandering. Enrico Floriddia’s Bildungsroman traces the first part of Glaser’s life throughout his studies in Prague and Vienna, his journey by foot to Paris, his troubled time in Tunis and Alexandria before he reached his craved destination, Yemen. The so-called Arabia Felix (lat. »Happy Arabia«) has been the place where Eduard Glaser finally stopped his quest. Just to start digging.

Like Glaser, the series of altogether five lecture performances is constantly looking at the Sun. Building an original fiction, Enrico Floriddia will make use of his research material, found documents, supposed dreams, liminal texts and pop music videos that unfold along a rather tortuous line.