Villa Aurora Events Archive
January 2014
Literature at its Best: A Night with Michael Silverblatt and Denis Scheck
Los Angeles
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Michael Silverblatt is the host of the nationally syndicated radio interview program Bookworm on KCRW. He was born in 1952 in Queens, New York and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. In 1988 he was invited to host a literary program on KCRW. That's how he started Bookworm, a weekly radio program where Michael is in conversation with renowned authors about their work. There is hardly an internationally published author who is not to be found on his guest list. Michael Silverblatt is described as the man authors go to when they would like to have a serious literary conversation about their writing.
Denis Scheck, born 1964 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany has been a literary agent, translator of American and British authors, publisher and independent critic. He is widely known for his presentation of Druckfrisch, a literary program on public television in Germany. He has been awarded with various prizes and has been a juror at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt. In 1997, he was appointed literary editor at Deutschlandfunk, a public radio program. No other person is as highly appreciated as a literary critic in Germany and is similarly polarizing with his eloquence.
Literature at its Best: A Night with Michael Silverblatt and Denis Scheck
Los Angeles
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If you have ever heard the intense, smart and intimate conversations between Michael Silverblatt and authors who are his guests at KCRW, you will never forget this experience. Equally unforgettable is the experience of listening to Denis Scheck and his sharp and charming analyses of books at public radio and television in Germany. Both Scheck and Silverblatt sharpen the awareness of both books and its writers and the world they refer to.
Villa Aurora will host these two giants of literary criticism from both sides of the Atlantic. They will discuss books from both here and there of the last 50 years of literary production. Villa Aurora would like to commemorate the intellectual tradition and the exiled community, people like Thomas and Heinrich Mann and Bertolt Brecht who met at the Villa Aurora, former home of Marta and Lion Feuchtwanger.
Participants
Michael Silverblatt is the host of the nationally syndicated radio interview program Bookworm on KCRW. He was born in 1952 in Queens, New York and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. In 1988 he was invited to host a literary program on KCRW. That's how he started Bookworm, a weekly radio program where Michael is in conversation with renowned authors about their work. There is hardly an internationally published author who is not to be found on his guest list. Michael Silverblatt is described as the man authors go to when they would like to have a serious literary conversation about their writing.
Denis Scheck, born 1964 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany has been a literary agent, translator of American and British authors, publisher and independent critic. He is widely known for his presentation of Druckfrisch, a literary program on public television in Germany. He has been awarded with various prizes and has been a juror at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in Klagenfurt. In 1997, he was appointed literary editor at Deutschlandfunk, a public radio program. No other person is as highly appreciated as a literary critic in Germany and is similarly polarizing with his eloquence.
SALON SOPHIE CHARLOTTE
Berlin
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On the occasion of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences's Salon Sophie Charlotte six former fellows of the Villa Aurora presented works and visions for the Europe of tomorrow. More than 2,000 people attended the 60 programs of the evening in the Academy and were inspired by the versatile range.
The Villa Aurora fellows Veronika Kellndorfer, Anna Faroqhi, Norbert Zähringer, Valeska Peschke, Antje Vowinckel, Franz Martin Olbrisch with their guests and partners have used different media, different formats to add their voices to this debate:
Program:
18:45 - Welcome & Introduction: Annette Rupp & Wolgang Siano
19:00 - Baustelle Europa, eine Zeitreise / Building site Europe – a Journey through Time
Sound and Video Installation
by Veronika Kellndorfer & Thomas Schulz
19:30 - Verborgene Stimmen / Hidden Voices - 15 Video Portraits (with English subtitles)
Video Installation
by Anna Faroqhi & Haim Peretz
20:15 - Bis zum Ende der Welt / To the end of the world
Reading
with Norbert Zähringer
20:45 - Die Botschaft von Amikejo / The Embassy of Amejiko
Interactive Performance
by Valeska Peschke with Robert Menasse & Ulrike Guérot
21:30 - Terra Prosodia
Audio presentation of sound compositions using European dialects which are on the verge of extinction
by Antje Vowinckel
22:00 - Palinsesto
Sound Installation
by Franz Martin Olbrisch
SALON SOPHIE CHARLOTTE: EUROPA - EIN ZUKUNFTSORT
Berlin
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Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Säulensaal - 2nd Floor
Six Villa Aurora fellows present their works and visions of the future of Europe as part of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences annual theme “Zukunftsort: EUROPA”.
Villa Aurora and the BBAW have been working together closely for many years, the cooperation goes beyond the fact that the Villa Aurora Forum have their offices within the BBAW in Berlin. The annual theme of the BBAW gives the fellows of the Villa Aurora a perfect chance to be active in the debate about the direction in which Europe is moving.
Europe is too important as a cultural and economic landscape for it to be left in a spiral of surfeit, skepticism and a matter of course decision making. The BBAW would like to make a mark on the public debate by organizing the Salon Sophie Charlotte - thereby not only referring to the historical debate, but also adding different voices to the current dialogue about the future visions for Europe.
The Villa Aurora fellows Veronika Kellndorfer, Anna Faroqhi, Norbert Zähringer, Valeska Peschke, Antje Vowinckel, Franz Martin Olbrisch with their guests and partners have used different media, different formats to add their voices to this debate.
Program:
18:45 - Welcome & Introduction: Annette Rupp & Wolgang Siano
19:00 - Baustelle Europa, eine Zeitreise / Building site Europe – a Journey through Time
Sound and Video Installation
by Veronika Kellndorfer & Thomas Schulz
19:30 - Verborgene Stimmen / Hidden Voices - 15 Video Portraits (with English subtitles)
Video Installation
by Anna Faroqhi & Haim Peretz
20:15 - Bis zum Ende der Welt / To the end of the world
Reading
with Norbert Zähringer
20:45 - Die Botschaft von Amikejo / The Embassy of Amejiko
Interactive Performance
by Valeska Peschke with Robert Menasse & Ulrike Guérot
21:30 - Terra Prosodia
Audio presentation of sound compositions using European dialects which are on the verge of extinction
by Antje Vowinckel
22:00 - Palinsesto
Sound Installation
by Franz Martin Olbrisch
Jacaranda @ Villa Aurora
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272)
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Mary meets Karlheinz - Landmarks of electronic music
The first of Jacaranda's three-event tribute to Stockhausen muse, Mary Bauermeister.
This event will feature performer Nicholas Isherwood, who created the role of "Lucifer" in three of the operas making up Stockhausen's massive cycle "Licht." Isherwood will perform "Capricorn" for singer and electronics, tailored to his voice by the composer, and will wear the original 1974 costume designed by Bauermeister. This performance will follow a rare hearing of "Kontakte," a seminal electronic work, in a new hi-def digital restoration. The 1960 premiere of the 30-minute work was also the occasion in which Stockhausen met Bauermeister.