Rondo (music magazine) nov. 2011, Raoul Mörchen:
An exciting work, certainly definitive for future realizations.

NMZ (Neue Musik Zeitung), april 2012, Juan Martin Koch:
The viewer accompanies the six vocalists of the ensemble “Die Maulwerker” in a renewed confrontation with the work that gave the group its name. Some forty years after they were created, Dieter Schnebel’s Maulwerke still prove to be valid encounters with the voice as instrument that, in the way they revisit elementary vocal sound generation and are open to ever new and original forms of performance, have retained their freshness and fascination.

Director Susanne Elgeti follows the ensemble’s working process with great sensibility. The half-hour-long film version is exceptionally concentrated, maintaining the balance between abstract sound generation and narrative-theatrical elements and culminating in a marvelous dialogue between Henrik Kairies and Christian Kesten.

Harmonia Mundi UK december 2011 >pdf

Rheinische Post 3.8.2010 Gabi Knops-Feiler:
Bizarre, unusual, totally crazy.
For most of the approximately 70 audience members, many young people notably in attendance, this kind of concert is completely new. One Leverkusener evaluated the happening as “funny, but interesting”, his companion said she had seldom laughed so much.

Der Tagesspiegel 26. 3. 2006 Carsten Niemann:
The composer and the team around director Christian Kesten draw their listeners, in the Werner-Otto-Saal of the Konzerthaus, into the inner life of Maria Magdalena with gentle sophistication.

positionen 67. reflections on contemporary music, may 2006, Matthias R.Entreß:
The "best" Japanese at the Festival were two women who have settled in Europe. (...) In M.M., about Maria Magdalena’s encounter with the resurrected Jesus on Easter morning, Makiko Nishikaze created the most eloquent harmonic tenderness that contemporary music has to offer, her design for a new music theater.