A film about the pipe organ
"To my ears, the organ is the king of instruments", wrote W.A. Mozart to his father.
What is so special about the organ?
Its size, its grandeur, the space it occupies?
Julian Benedikt and his team spent three years
travelling from organ to organ across Europe,
meeting organists, organ builders
and lovers of the organ and organ music.
What is the secret of the organ?
The space, the sound, the air!
"Organs are marvels,
temples inspired by the hand of God,
echoes of the song of creation,"
writes Johann Gottfried Herder.
The Spirit of the Organ – The Spirit of the Organ – L´Esprit de l ´Orgue
Première Sunday, February 15th in Berlin
12 PM Organ concert at St. Marien B.-Wilmersdorf
with Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, Frédéric Blanc, Lala Wörle, Carolyne van Machelen, Enzo Pedretti
and Jürgen Essl with Matthias Schriefl (Jazz trumpet)
speakers Axel Milberg, Victoria Goldie & Jonathan Bruckmeier with texts by
Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Charles-Marie Widor & Albert Schweitzer.
7 PM Film première at Kino Babylon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin (doors open at 6:30 PM)
at the cinema organ Cameron Carpenter
The film will be broadcast on ARTE television on Sunday, March 22nd 2026, 11.40 p.m.
after the film is available on ARTE Mediathek
Contributors
Above the rooftops of Paris - Michael Grüber filming for "The spirit of the organ"