Sunday, July 3, 2016
Sharon Dodua Otoo wins Bachmann Prize
quit Four Prices Festival of German literature
Sharon Dodua Otoo has been awarded the 40th Ingeborg Bachmann prize. The British writer with Ghanaian roots received the award for her text “Mr Gröttrup sits down”. The jury praised the effortless satire of everyday life in Germany, where an egg dares to revolt. The prize of EUR 25 000 grand prize is one of the most prestigious literary awards in Germany. At the end of the 40th Festival of German literature Julia Wolf got out of Berlin for “Walter Nowak remains are” the 3sat Prize. The born in Zurich took the price of Carinthian Electricity Kelag for “Los Alamos is tiny” counter. The Viennese Stefanie Sargnagel received the most votes in the online poll and was awarded for “Penne at Kika” the Audience Award. Associated with the town clerk Fellowship from the city Klagenfurt.
Worldwide mourning Elie Wiesel
The Peace died at age 87
representatives from politics and religion mourn Elie Wiesel. German President Gauck condolences Wiesel Marion Esther and wrote: “. We have a great people, extraordinary scholar and writer lost” The survivors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald was totally committed compliance and enforcement of human rights. “To talk about is impossible to remain silent about forbidden”, Wiesel once said, reminded Gauck. The President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Schuster, Wiesel called “a great role model”: Though he lost his entire family, and despite what he himself had suffered, “he established through his work of peace and reconciliation”. Wiesel did the victims of the Shoah given a voice that was heard around the world. US President Obama called Wiesel “one of the great moral voices of our time” and “conscience of the world”. Elie Wiesel had published extensively on the Holocaust, established a foundation against intolerance and indifference and 1986 received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts against violence and racism.
director Michael Cimino died
The Oscar winner was 77 years old
As his attorney announced that they found Cimino lifeless at his home in Beverly Hills. no details were provided previously to death. For his Vietnam War film “The Deer Hunter” Cimino won the 1979 Oscar for Best Picture and Best Director. After “Heavens Gate”, one of the most expensive flops in movie history, Cimino turned only a handful of films.
Ready Humboldt Forum an annual cost of 50 million euros
the reports the “Berliner Morgenpost”
citing a report from Culture Minister Monika Grütters to the budget committee of the Bundestag, the Humboldt Forum will cost the federal government from 2020 annually 50 million euros. Already in 2017 is expected to cost in the high double-digit millions to set up the building and prepare the operation. But the operational costs would amount to EUR 14.6 million. The reconstructed Prussian palace in the capital is to be from 2019 an exhibition and cultural center. The construction costs are estimated at EUR 590 million.
“Chris Dercon is a good guy”
art curator Kasper König to controversy over the Volksbühne Berlin
in the dispute over the management of the Volksbühne Berlin, defended against criticism Kasper König, longtime director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and curator of Manifesta in St. Petersburg, the future director Chris Dercon. He knew Chris Dercon since over 35 years, King said on Saturday in Germany Kultur: “That is a good guy who is really open to new things and also with risk tolerance and solidarity with things tackles,” said King. He is one of the 25 signatories of an open letter published yesterday, take in the celebrities of the international art and museum scene party for Chris Dercon. King warned regarding Chris Dercon before a prejudice: “We must not give this impression: Now comes because as a manager type, so that is a neo-liberal art world figure and now sauce poured over everything That’s just really a Totschlag-. Argument.” In his view, should be allowed Dercon as directors act only once, King said: “And so I think the letter (…) very, very good and I think it’s good that he did not deal with any invectives of one. washed-up theater-Fritzen, who was great again. Mr. Peymann, who simply blaspheme just about everything and interferes in political matters instead of his own work to do “
” Art can not save man “
Günther Uecker exhibitions recall Lichtenhagen
the Rostock Kunsthalle today showing off the exhibition “man’s Inhumanity”. Therein the internationally acclaimed artist Günther Uecker had discussed the xenophobic riots of Rostock-Lichtenhagen 1992nd “It also vocabulary have been developed, such as smack,” Uecker said about the events after the fall in Germany Kultur. “This has deeply shocked me.” Uecker shows in the exhibition in Schwerin now 14 properties as “pacified equipment”. They recall how arable Torture alike or a modern crossroads equal. Uecker conceded in the face of today’s xenophobic attacks a that does not leave rid the world through art. “Since you can also say, the art can not save the people, but with the means of art a printout is possible.”
Even in the state capital Schwerin is shown in the new exhibition building another Uecker exhibition. The 86-year-old has it specially made a series of “New Wustrower towels”. They should remember how Uecker had buried in the Baltic Sea beach washed up corpses as a teenager to Soviet soldiers to war 1945th “That was then but the traumatic experience that has led me today to address that and to put in comparison to what is happening on the Mediterranean, where fugitive then drowned and were washed ashore.” He wanted to make pictorially significantly.
“Art can not save man”
Günther Uecker exhibitions recall Lichtenhagen
the Rostock Kunsthalle presents the exhibition “man’s Inhumanity”. Therein the internationally acclaimed artist Günther Uecker had discussed the xenophobic riots of Rostock-Lichtenhagen 1992nd “It also vocabulary have been developed, such as smack,” Uecker said about the events after the fall in Germany Kultur. “This has deeply shocked me.” Uecker shows in the exhibition in Schwerin now 14 properties as “pacified equipment”. They recall how arable Torture alike or a modern crossroads equal. Uecker conceded in the face of today’s xenophobic attacks a that does not leave rid the world through art. “Since you can also say, the art can not save the people, but with the means of art a printout is possible.”
Even in the state capital Schwerin is shown in the new exhibition building another Uecker exhibition. The 86-year-old has it specially made a series of “New Wustrower towels”. They should remember how Uecker had buried in the Baltic Sea beach washed up corpses as a teenager to Soviet soldiers to war 1945th “That was then but the traumatic experience that has led me today to address that and to put in comparison to what is happening on the Mediterranean, where fugitive then drowned and were washed ashore.” He wanted to make pictorially significantly.
Munich Film Festival pays tribute to German cinema young
price for best director goes to “The hands of my mother” of Florian Eichinger
in the Munich film Festival is the family drama “my mother’s hands” awarded best junior film. Director Florian Eichinger told it of a boy who was abused by his mother. As a grown man he feels reminded by his own son. The prize “New German Cinema” for director is endowed with 30,000 euros. Main actor Andreas Döhler was honored as best actor. The production award went to Jana Raschke and Igor Dovgal for “roofless house”. Best screenwriter was the Munich Film student Mareille small for the tragicomedy “Dinky Sinky”. The prize since 1989, initially only for directors, later also in other categories, several times he was also renamed.
Yves Bonnefoy is dead
France significant poet died at the age of 93 years
The Paris College de France confirmed relevant media reports on the death of Yves Bonnefoy. The 93-year-old was one of the most important French poets of the postwar period.
Bonnefoy was born in 1923 the son of a worker and a teacher in Tours. He studied mathematics and philosophy. After the Second World War he was in Paris for a short time the Surrealists close, but soon distanced himself again from this group.
His first volume of poetry “Douve in motion and motionless” appeared in 1953 and became a success.
“Poetry is the experience of what exceeds the words “Bonnefoy said even once. But the Frenchman also wrote essays and narrative texts, translated plays by William Shakespeare and poems by John Keats. He has received many awards, among them the Czech Franz Kafka literary prize. Bonnefoy died yesterday.
restoration of the Colosseum
Private patrons stepped
25 million euros donated the family della Valle for the receipt of Colosseum. “Lead by example and new laws can act on it, that this Mäzenatenkultur produced in our country,” said Italy’s Culture Minister Dario Franceschini. “Every citizen, every business takes its social role by defining how much money he donates to cultural goods”, he underlined. For the first time succeeded in Italy, using private money to get such an important cultural site. The government of Matteo Renzi hopes that more private donations for the preservation of cultural assets. . It provides tax by applicable law
The head of the restoration work, Gisella Capponi, is proud of her work: “On the north side, we literally can preserve the architecture, we were able to get the Coliseum from this Ruins status.. Because everything was covered by a layer, which has ensured that we and so could not distinguish columns. all this, what are the components of this so particular architecture. “
from now to the subterranean passages and systems are restored , But the state pays once EUR 18 million.
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