On 20 October 2013, “Gefährten” (fellows), the German adaptation of the impressive production War Horse (originally at London’s National Theatre) will premiere at Berlin’s Theater des Westens. Like Steven Spielberg’s failed film, is is based upon the same-named children’s novel by Michael Morpurgo from 1982 and is a story about an unlike friendship between a boy and an extraordinary horse, but it also addresses social issues, dependency and loss, and not the least war, shown here using the example of the First World War.
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Categories: Hinweise, Termine Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Afrika, Arabellion, Ausstellungen, Erinnerungskultur, Fotografie, Irak, Iran, Irland, Israel, Kalter Krieg, Korea, Palästina, Terrorismus, USA, Vernissagen, Vietnam, Zweiter Weltkrieg
From 25 July until 8 September 2013, conceptual artist Margret Eicher presents media tapestries in the exhibition “Once Upon a Time in Mass Media” at the Kleine Orangerie am Schloss Charlottenburg in Berlin. In these large-format collages, she addresses media images and their social reception in various ways. The chosen form of expression plays a major role, too: tapestries once were tools of (self-) representation of power and authority. In Eicher’s works, too, there are numerous references on war and violence.
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On 28 May 2013, the exhibition „Landscapes & Memory“ by Hamburg-based photographer Jo Röttger will open at Bayerisches Armeemuseum (Bavarian Army Museum) in Ingolstadt. In 27 large-format photos with their picture language that reminds of romanticism, Röttger approaches landscapes and identity while addressing desire and alienation as well as the ongoing war in Afghanistan. A bilingual catalogue will be published on the occasion of the exhibition, curated by Martin Bayer (Wartist).
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On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition
“verfemt, verfolgt – vergessen? Kunst und Künstler im Nationalsozialismus” the chamber symphonic orchestra
Kammersymphonie Berlin, conducted by Jürgen Bruns, will play the concert
Verehrt – verfemt – versunken at
Nikolaikirche (
St. Nicholas Church), Berlin’s oldest church. The concert consists of worky by
Franz Schreker,
Gideon Klein,
Erich Zeisl,
Egon Wellesz and
Pavel Haas. They ranked as the most revered composers of their times, but due to Nazi persecution and murder, they vanished into oblivion. Both the concert and the exhibition are part of the theme year
“Diversity Destroyed”.
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From 16 March until 28 July 2013, Stadtmuseum Berlin presents the exhibition “verfemt, verfolgt – vergessen? Kunst und Künstler im Nationalsozialismus” with various works from the impressive Collection Gerhard Schneider at its location Emphraim-Palais. On the occasion of the theme year “Diversity Destroyed” on the Nazi’s takeover 100 years ago, the Stadtmuseum Berlin thus remembers the methodic defamation of modern art, up to destruction of artworks and lives. The exhibition is dedicated to all artists who had been banned, persecuted or even murdered, and whose works and lives have been nearly forgotten. It is therefore even more necessary to remember their suffering, but not the least their lives and works, to snatch them from oblivion.
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From 8 March until 3 April 2013, Berlin-based
Willy-Brandt-Haus presents the exhibition
One Person Crying: Women and War with photos by
Marissa Roth. Since 1984, the Pulitzer Prize laureate (born in 1957 in Los Angeles) is dealing with this issue: back then, she travelled to the Yugoslav homeland of her Jewish grandparents who had been murdered in 1942 by Hungarian Fascists. In 1988, she was assigned by
Los Angeles Times to portray
Afghan women refugees. The subject remained crucial for her work:
One Person Crying: Women and War addresses the effects of war on women within their respective societies.
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Categories: Hinweise, Termine Tags: Afghanistan, Ausstellungen, Balkan, Deutschland, Erinnerungskultur, Fotografie, Irak, Irland, Japan, USA, Vernissagen, Vietnam, Zweiter Weltkrieg
On 20 and 21 March 2013,
Robert M. Edsel presents his book
“The Monuments Men” and its thrilling background story in lectures with subsequent talks in Berlin and Potsdam. During the
Second World War, the Nazis organised the “greatest theft in history” and stole countless art works from the occupied territories in Europe. The allied special unit from the
“Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Program” searched for these art treasures. The author Robert M. Edsel is dealing intensively with this
art theft and in 2007, he founded the
“Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art”. His book “The Monuments Men” (2009) has already been translated into 19 languages, is recently available in German and is the background for the homonymous
film directed by
George Clooney with Clooney himself,
Cate Blanchett,
Daniel Craig,
Matt Damon,
Jean Dujardin and
John Goodman that will be made this year.
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From 22 February until 3 March 2013, Berlin-based gallery Organ kritischer Kunst (OKK, organ of critical arts) presents the exhibition “…später baut sie Atomschiffe” (…later, she will build nuclear vessels” with works by Lisa Glauer. The exhibition will be opened with the performance “experimental production of evidence by visualisation”. Lisa Glauer uses breast milk as material for her works. This project is part of her PhD dissertation on Art and Design at Bauhaus University Weimar.
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