Current Press Echoes
27.07.2009/Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Weltprobleme, wenn es sie nicht gäbe, müssten erfunden werden" ("If there weren't any problems in the world, they would have to be invented"; German article)
The honorary Symposium "FUTURES OF MODERNITY" for and with Ulrich Beck brought together an avant-garde of critical thinkers to offer their interpretations of the coming challenges, their social dynamics and political implications, such as Bruno Latour, Richard Sennett, Mary Kaldor, Navid Kermani, Wolf Lepenies as well as Ulrich Beck.
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April 2009/classicalsource.com: "International Conductors' Academy of the Allianz Cultural Foundation"
Launched in 2003, the International Conductors' Academy is a collaboration between the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia orchestras which aims to select three young conductors each year to participate in a training programme throughout the concert season and share a concert in the Royal Festival Hall.
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06.04.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "Gemeinsam oder gar nicht" ("Together or never"; German article)
Even two decades after the world-historic change 1989/90 Europe is still in search of a reliable security structure. How could this structure look like, which preconditions have to be granted and which barriers negotiated? These were some of the questions which were discussed by several experts last Sunday at the State Opera House in Berlin. They met each other because of an invitation by the Allianz Cultural Foundation for the fifth "Debate on Europe".
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16.03.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "In drei Schritten die Welt retten" ("Save the World in three steps"; German article)
There are recipes against the climate change and the financial crisis: The speakers, invited by the Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Tagesspiegel, discussed the "New Global Deal" at the fourth lecture of the Debate on Europe at Berlin's 'living room' at the Pariser Platz.
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11.03.2009/Welt online: "Revolution und Literatur: die Sache mit der Freiheit" ("Revolution and Literature: Matter of Freedom"; German article)
Once again, this was notable: When the Hungarian author, raised in Ceaucescu-Romania, György Dragomán speaks of house searches at night by the secret police Securitate and of the confiscation of all books in the house, the German moderator smiles indulgently and poses his next question.
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16.02.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "Schuld und Schulden" ("Guilt and Debts", German article)
Whilde states try to limit the implications of the global collapse of the financial markets for the people, a new question arises: Will a state be able to cope with this task at all?
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15.02.2009/Le Gouvernement: "Jean-Claude Juncker zu Gast bei der Allianz Kulturstiftung in Berlin" ("Jean-Claude Juncker is guest at the Allianz Cultural Foundation in Berlin", German article)
Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker has been guest at the Allianz Cultural Foundation in Berlin last Sunday, February 15, 2009. On the occasion of the Debate on Europe series 2009, he dealt with the subject "How much regulation does the 'free market' need?"
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14.02.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "Wohlstand ohne Schweiß darf es nicht geben" ("Prosperity without sweat is inacceptable", German article)
The Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Jean-Claude Juncker speaks about admonitions, debts and the question: How much regulation is necessary? -- Mr. Juncker, how big is the danger that such a global economic crisis we are experiencing now will recur? -- Nobody knows that, of course. But I doubt that we already learned the right consequences from the events in the past years.
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31.01.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "Es fehlen noch wesentliche Elemente einer Metropole" ("Essential elements of a metropolis are still missing"; German article)
The Boomdown Dubai attracts persons engaged in the cultural sector from all over the world. The newspaper "Tagesspiegel" interviewed Michael Schindhelm about the city, its inhabitants and culture.
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26.01.2009/Welt Online: "Das endgültige Ende des Biedermeier" ("The ultimate expiration of Biedermeier"; German article)
The Czech and German Foreign Ministers discuss at the State Opera House in Berlin about the role of Europe in a world of change. Those who speak of Biedermeier today, normally are thinking of cozy home decor and an atmosphere of private sociability.
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26.01.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: "Reifeprüfung für Europa" ("Final examination for Europe"; German article)
Foreign Minister Steinmeier, his Prague counterpart Schwarzenberg and France's Minister of State responsible for European Affairs, Le Maire, discuss about Europe's ability to overcome crises.
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26.01.2009/Berliner Zeitung: "Ein Venedig für die Welt" ("A Venice for the World"; German article)
Karel Schwarzenberg has his own, particular idea how Europe could look like in 20 or 30 years in the future. If you don't rapidly invest more money in science and education, it will look like a big Venice, the Czech Foreign Minister and Chairman of the EU Council pointed out.
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25.01.2009/DW-World.de: "Außenpolitiker treffen sich zur 'politischen Oper' " ("Foreign Ministers meet for a 'Political Opera' "; German article)
The Allianz Cultural Foundation and the Deutsche Welle had invited top European Diplomats to a discussion at the State Opera House in Berlin: There, they pointed out the accomplishments of the EU without ignoring its problems.
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23.01.2009/Der Tagesspiegel: Special Supplement "Reden über Europa" ("Debate on Europe", German articles)
The Debate on Europe, initiated by the Allianz Cultural Foundation, focuses on a Europe that gets aware of its message. Conceived in response to the resistance to the further development of the EU, this series of lectures now arrives in Berlin. The Tagesspiegel as a partner is convinced that the German capital is the right place for this debate. Together with ARTE, the BMW Group Cultural Communication, the State Opera House, the radio station "Deutsche Welle" and the newspaper "Die Zeit", it welcomes warmly its participants in the centre of Berlin!
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--- Press Echoes in 2008 ---
23.10.2008/abendzeitung.de: "Hexensabbat mit Feuerkopf" ("Bedevilment with spitfire", German article)
There's nothing to it getting thundering applause for a muscularly banged out violin concert by Sibelius and a gaudy "Symphony fantastique" by Berlioz. Really good performances of both works have to get marked in red in your calendar: Last Wednesday was such a rare day.
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20.10.2008/DailyNet.de: "Stéphane Courtois und Vaira Vike-Freiberga im Gespräch mit Henryk M.Broder" ("Stéphane Courtois and Vaira Vike-Freiberga in conversation with Henryk M. Broder", German article)
Shortly after the fall of the Soviet communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe, the former Maoist Courtois shocked the West with the claim that communism was suppression, crime and terror. Freiberga, who - like so many of her fellow Latvians - spent most of her lifetime in exile, believes that after the Iron Curtain there is still a mental barrier to overcome between East and West.
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20.10.2008/Allianz Gruppe: "Stardirigent Gustavo Dudamel im Gasteig München" ("Star Conductor Gustavo Dudamel at the Gasteig/Munich", German article)
The international renowned Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel (27) will conduct the "Göteborger Symphoniker" at the Philharmonics of the Gasteig/Munich this Wednesday, October 22, 2008. With his South American interpretation of Berlioz' "Symphony Fantastique" and Jean Sibelius' "Violin Concert D minor, op. 47", Dudamel liberates the classical orchestral work (...)
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09.10.2008/SofiaECHO.com: "Sofia Central Baths: Stay, Stay (art)"
It has been 22 years since the Sofia Central Baths last saw regulars taking advantage of its healing mineral waters. From that time till the present, the structure – which earned a place on Bulgaria's list of monuments of cultural significance in 1988 – has been a source of debate, with one side advocating for its restoration and reopening as a spa facility of sorts, and the other adamant that it would best serve as a museum of the city of Sofia.
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07.10.2008/KlassikInfo.de: "Peter Ruzicka bleibt bis 2012 Leiter der Münchener Biennale" ("Peter Ruzicka will stay director of the Munich Biennial till 2012", German article)
The cultural commission of the Munich city council decided today (6.10.) that the conductor and cultural manager Peter Ruzicka should stay the director of the Munich Biennial for Contemporary Opera and Musical Theatre till 2012. Thus, the successful cooperation will be continued with the current artistic director who is known as one of the most distinguished experts of the current opera and musical theatre.
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06.10.2008/ArtFacts.Net: "Jef Geys - 53rd Venice Biennial - Belgian Pavillion - 7 June > 22 November 2009 "
The Erna Hecey Gallery proudly announces Jef Geys being the artist of the Belgian Pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennial from June 7 till November 22, 2009. Jef Geys was chosen as the representative of Belgium at the international exhibition of modern art; the curator of the Belgian exhibition will be Dirk Snauwaert, director of Wiels, Brussels.
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17.09.2008/n-ost: "Ukraine: Mit Smartphone und Schlafsack" ("Ukraine: With Smartphone and Sleeping Bag", German article)
Since the beginning of this week, twelve teens from Germany have been on an interactive backpacking through the Ukraine. The project is called "Stadt-Land-Plus" (City-Country-Plus). The distinctive feature: the participants have got smartphones and publish audio files, texts and pictures in the internet. Thereby everyone can witness the two-week journey almost in realtime.
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05.08.2008/Brigitte Young Miss: "Reist als Online-Reporter in die Ukraine!" ("Travel across the Ucraine as an online journalist!", German article)
The Ucraine offers much more than only the boxing Klitschko brothers. You want to get to know this vast country? Then quickly send your application! The association "Politikfabrik" sends 12 young people as online journalists into the "wild east".
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14.07.2008/arsprototo: "Allianzen für die Kultur" ("Alliances for Culture", German article)
It was the night of November 2, 2004: The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar was aflamed. During the disastrous fire of this famous cultural heritage nearly 50.000 books, paintings and selections of music supplies were destroyed and further 62.000 book volumes were partially heavily damaged.
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10.07.2008/Welt Online: "Warum ein Dichter aus Israel in Berlin nicht lesen darf" ("Why a poet from Israel is not allowed to lecture in Berlin", German article)
Since almost one year I am trying to organise a joint lecture with the author Asher Reich, my admired colleague from Israel. Being a radical opponent of the Islamic Republic in Iran I wanted to send a signal of reconciliation.
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27.06.2008/Lyndon LaRouche Public Action Committee: "Soros And The British EU Empire Project: The Missing Link?"
What a small world, indeed. The European think-tank ECFR-- European Council on Foreign Relations--on the 25th of June issued a statement on their website, signed by its founders, which calls for a continuation of the imperial British-led EU-project, after the Irish vote. This call was also published on the Letters page of "Guardian," "ABC" (Spain), and Serbian "Dnevnik".
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25.06.2008/Frankfurter Rundschau Online: "Ohne Muslime kein Europa" ("Without Muslims, no Europe", German article)
There has been a memorable encounter on June 23rd, 2008, at 3:05 p.m. Tariq Ramadan, one of the most controversial fighters for the European Muslims, welcomed with a handshake Jürgen Habermas, the "chief theoretician" of the "New Complexity".
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24.06.2008/Der Tagesspiegel: "Das Vertrauen lässt nach" ("The confidence decreases", German article)
Responsability has a lot to do with confidence. In this field the economz does is in a difficult position at the moment. The enterprises have to prove their credibility.
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16.06.2008/Artnet: "Die Institution ist tot, die Peripherie lebt" ("The institution is dead, the periphery is alive", German article)
It is already the second "Workshop for Young Curators" which took place at the 5th berlin biennal at the beginning of April 2008. The project of the Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. (KW Institute for Contemporary Art) is a cooperation with the Goethe Institute Munich and it is supported by the Alliance Kulturstiftung as well as by BMW.
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16.06.2008/Der Tagesspiegel: "Campingplatz der Träume" ("Camping site of dreams", German article)
A game on real grass - with showers and camping mats. Transnistria goes camping - the Berlin HAU welcomes a Moldavian theatre installation. "We respect Moldavia!", was the phrase that our small travelling group heard most often when they explored Transnistria in April.
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14.06.2008/Welt Online: "Die Patrioten von Transnistrien" ("The patriots of Transnistria", German article)
Snapshots of a state which does not exist. "Dawai, dawai!", the driver of a dirty white minivan shouts. His right arm rotates hectically. The strangers are too slow. The new passengers rather rush into the inside of the van than entering it in an organized way.
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13.06.2008/Classicalsource: "London Philharmonic Orchestra – International Conductors’ Academy"
This was a ‘proper’ concert, not a competition, shared by three conductors whom have benefited from the International Conductors’ Academy of the Allianz Kulturstiftung, incepted in 2003, a collaboration between Southbank Centre, London Philharmonic Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra.
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09.06.2008/Weltexpress: "Sind wir nicht alle Balkan?" ("Aren't we all a bit Balkans?", German article)
The way, how Gorizia/Nova Gorica did overcome a piece of European separation. Quo vadis South East Europe? Adelheid Feilcke-Tiemann, responsible for international relations at the "Deutschen Welle" gave the shortest answer to the question of the Spring Academy of the German-Italian Journalists Association, what path the people in this former and still latent conflict zone will take: "Towards the European Union."
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06.05.2008/berlinista.com: "A 21st Century Challenge" (German article)
Sciences, Humanities and the Arts have made remarkable progress in recent decades, but have so far not been able to combine forces. A number of research institutes throughout the world have embarked on the scientific study of the arts in order to learn more about what it fundamentally means to be human, and how human characteristics and human potential are based on neurobiological processes.
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28.04.2008/Der Standard: "Nächstenliebe als Gesellschaftskitt" ("Charity as a social cement", German article)
The Minister of the Interior of Italy, Giuliano Amato, versus the sociologist Giddens; Giddens versus Gusenbauer; Gusenbauer versus Amato: The fronts criss-crossed at the Burgtheater in Vienna. In the fourth event of the series "Let's Talk about Europe", the topic was, what holds a society together? The answers varied from the middle class to the religion.
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27.04.2008/Wiener Zeitung Online: "Gusenbauer: Lob der Mittelschicht" ("Praise of the middle class", German article)
According to the Austrian Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (SPÖ), it's the middle class, that holds a society together. "What's the ground, that supports a society?, How much coherence - but first of all: what sort of coherence - does society need?" These questions were discussed in the Burgtheater in Vienna on Sunday morning.
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16.03.2008/Der Tagesanzeiger (Switzerland): "In Leipzig trifft sich der neue Osten" ("In Leipzig, the new East is meeting", German article)
There are many good reasons to visit the Leipzig Book Fair. One of them: Nowhere else you can listen to as much literature from eastern Europe. The Leipzig Book Fair, which ended yesterday, attracted whole school groups from all over Saxony.
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Frühling 2008/Die Stiftung: "Einfluss nehmen, Kultur fördern" ("Exerting influence, supporting culture", German article)
Culture is by far the best way to build bridges between different mentalities, languages and generations. This has to be communicated particularly among young people. It will depend on their will, their ability and their influence if Europe is meant to be a success.
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25.02.2008/Der Standard: "Wie viel Vernunft braucht die Religion?" ("How much rationality does religion need?", German article)
Quick-tempered and entertaining discussions took place in the Burgtheater: about the role of religion and citizenship in the multicultural Europe. The topic was "Europe of Religions", but a lot more was discussed: Do migrants want to become citizens? Does the intolerance of the society grow? A record of a quick-tempered and entertaining debate in the Burgtheater.
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21.01.2008/Der Standard: "Europa könnte, wenn es nur wollte" ("Europe could do it, if it wanted to", German article)
"Talks On Europe" in the Burgtheater. How to make the European chorus sing with one voice? How can external power be demonstrated? Prominent speakers, invited by the STANDARD, came together on Sunday in Vienna to discuss this topic.
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20.01.2008/vienna.at: "Reden über Europa: flexibel vs. einstimmig" ("Talks about Europe: flexible vs. in unison", German article)
To what extend is Europe meant to be integrated? Highly different ideas were expressed in the Burgtheater on Saturday morning. "The World Disorder and the Role of Europe" was the topic of a discussion with prominent guests in the Kulturtempel. This was one event of the series "Talks On Europe".
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24.07.2007/Romea: "Interview with Timea Junghaus"
What was your main objective for this Pavilion? -- The Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale wants to challenge negative, single-minded stereotypes of Roma, also by broadening their image to include sophisticated contemporaryart and the ability to reflect on problems.
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13.06.2007/cafebabel.com: "Of Roma art and Charlie Chaplin"
On 7 June the Venice Biennale saw the grand opening of 'Paradise Lost', its first Roma Pavilion. Gipsy kitsch, or the artistic emancipation of an oppressed people?
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12.06.2007/taz: "Jenseits des Nationalstaats" ("Beyond the nation state", German article)
The Roma are the Europeans par excellence: it just doesn't really help them. On the fringes of the Venice Biannual Film Festival the exhibition "Paradise Lost" now presents the art of 16 Roma artists from 8 countries.
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29.09.2006/NZZ online: "Lachen und Weinen" ("Laughter and weep", German article)
The Lemberg Literature Festival in the book-enthusiastic Ukraine – Soon the city, whose name is Lemberg in German, Lwów in Polish, Lwow in Russian and Lwiw in Ukrainian, is celebrating its 750-year anniversary. On the big marketplace, which was declared World Heritage Site, the fronts of the houses are busily renovated, the old sidewalks are renewed.
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23.09.2006/Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Brittle paper, wild fans"
East-West-East: The Book Fair and the new Literature Festival in Lemberg -- Old Lemberg is located in eastern Galicia in the foothills of the Carpathian mountainrange and resides in the mythological mists of the past. Known today as Lviv, the city liesat the edge of Ukraine, a country whose name simply means "on the border". A lack of belonging is an all-embracing constant.
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