How to learn a new city know their founding directors? Of course, not really, finally, Neil MacGregor, bulkheads and expert on Germany, not every single Berlin shake hands and ask him for his sympathy. The very word already – “Director”, it then calls, printed in any newspaper comment columns to stand where it makes one feel guilty because you could wish for, they could all remember once, the directors. The museum director and opera directors, the theater director and the division directors in Berlin and elsewhere.
After all, these are the people who shape the world in which we moving as if nothing when we come late in the evening on a spring from the theater or if we believe that the quality of the exhibitions in a certain Kunsthaus had really subsided lately. The cultural industry but is a powerful apparatus, he wants to be obtained.
MacGregors tie stands out
And because apparatuses are now once naturally rather un-erotic matters, also round of introductions for founding directors are quite dry. Chancellery. Security checks. Press Conference. Left and right in the space high huge abstract paintings ham in pinks and greens, the podium with the protagonists, from left to right in between: the very impressive press secretary of Culture State Secretary. Our new Berlin Mayor Müller, whose name, it must be said, is even less impresses as that of any division directors, which is less on the Occurrence of the name Müller, as to a certain reason parsimony in the overall gesture of carrying it.
Sorry,woman Grütters, the state minister for culture, is dressed very colorful as the sole and clearly happy about their personal coup. Neil MacGregor, which is welcomed today, wearing a claret-colored tie with subtle mustard-colored dots. Besides Horst Bredenkamp, the famous art historian, and a little further to the right Hermann Parzinger, who famously presided over by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
His “History of the World” is great
It took so long, and now it’s finally here, in Germany, Neil MacGregor, 68 years old, historian and author of a rather grand radio series that in Germany the Title “.A history of the world in a thousand objects” has been published as a book. It will now be much in Berlin, when he is not in India, where he collaborates in Bombay in the construction of a museum. Woman Grütters has personally recruited him from London, where he was director of the British Museum.
Now he is so “head of the founding artistic director” of the Humboldt Forum, which means that he will work together with Parzinger and Bredenkamp, in the next two years, what will be ever a place exactly the “Humboldt Forum”.
On June 12, is topping because it will give Champagne on the building site and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra will play. It’s a bit unfair, a future exhibition, which is not even built to reproach, that no one can imagine as accurately, will be right there to see what and do, but it’s just really hard to imagine this Humboldt Forum when constantly terms such as “World Cultures” and “cosmopolitanism” fall and one that indeed everything is good and important, but it is not yet know exactly how it all should look to the Agora and the cinema, with the non-European collections and the temporary exhibitions.
MacGregor talks so wonderfully French
Of course, MacGregor can not really say of substance to it begins indeed in October only on. It will involve large issues like power, war, death, or belief that he would tell on the basis of the exhibits. He wanted to create a place where one can speak of the world.
For the time being can only be said that Neil MacGregor to be a really pleasant person seems not only because his tie so beautiful contrast between the print unit blue of the surrounding men in suits, but also because he can tell very charming anecdotes, for example, how he was and Sir Simon for the first time in a German “Abendschau” guest Rattle during which wrote him a text message, Berlin was really nice, he should not have to worry and will certainly love it. Because his accent that would actually sound Scottish, French almost forms, almost, and because he can “République des lettres” say the words so wonderful that it is believed that he was a Frenchman. Because he regretted to have never passed a German museum, because you as a museum boss always the same, “Professor Doctor” would be in Germany, where there is only a simple “director” in England. That with the lock still can not really imagine you look. But you should remember Neil MacGregor’s name.
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