Villa Aurora Events Archive
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.
Los Angeles as a Site of German-American Crossings
Los Angeles
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The symposium asks whether Los Angeles, or Southern California more broadly, could be viewed as a site, a sort of Heimat, of German history. It explores the “local” history of Los Angeles through the lens of German and Central European history and the experiences of émigrés from German-speaking lands in Los Angeles. The contributions of German immigrants, émigrés, and exiles to Los Angeles history are legion, and even include one of the founders of the University of Southern California, Isaiah Hellmann. The symposium focuses in particular on the extraordinarily fruitful exchange of people after the 1920s that helped to reshape Los Angeles: entrepreneurs, studio executives, artists, intellectuals, directors, scientists, architects, and, the often overlooked ordinary people who restarted their lives in the City of Angels.
While the contributions of many of these figures are well-known, and a great many have been studied as individuals, the organizers would like to explore how these people encountered Los Angeles in their lives and work and what difference their own German/Central European roots made in reshaping Los Angeles. Exile studies, by now a well-developed field of inquiry, has tended to focus predominately on major cultural figures and key intellectuals. It has also remained largely a subfield unto itself and has yet to be integrated substantially into either the local history of Los Angeles and California or modern central European history. By tracing changing styles and practices in fields as diverse as architecture, design, business, science, art, and film, the symposium shall explore how émigrés created new hybrid practices out of their encounters with Los Angeles (and America more broadly). However, they did not bring a static “German” or “Austrian” style that was merely imported into America, rather their experiences in Los Angeles created novel cultural forms.
The organizers hope, in short, to stimulate a lively discussion on the nature of Los Angeles through a mid twentieth-century Central European mirror. They are envisioning a lively workshop with short pre-circulated papers and intensive discussions among the invited experts, who range in age from doctoral students to emeritus professors and include scholars on business, culture, and science from both sides of the Atlantic.
Central questions to be addressed:
• How and why did the subject(s) arrive in Los Angeles?
• What sort of impressions did s/he have of Los Angeles/America?
• What were the results of this “encounter” for his/her career, thinking, art, or entrepreneurship?
• What aspects of “coming to America” or Los Angeles could not be absorbed by the person, i.e. which ones came as a shock of the new?
• How did this person navigate the shoals of a transatlantic identity in an age of divisive conflict?
• What relationship did the figure have (or not have) to his/her German identity? What sort of relationship did s/he maintain with Germany and/or relatives back home?
• How did the individual’s identity shift between the vectors of Germanness, Jewishness and Americanness over his/her life abroad?
• What was distinct about Los Angeles/California/the West as a site of emigration as compared to New York or other cities like London, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, or Cape Town?
• What sorts of local and global networks did the individual(s) maintain?
Host: The Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, USC
Co-Sponsors
German Historical Institute, Washington DC (Director: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Berghoff)
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, Cologne
Institute for California and the West, USC (Director: Prof. William Deverell)
Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, USC (Ms. Michaela Ullmann, Exile Studies Librarian)
Centre for Business History in Scotland (Director: Ray Stokes)
German Consulate General of Los Angeles
Organizers:
Paul Lerner (Director of the Max Kade Institute, Associate Professor of History, USC)
Jeffrey Fear (Professor, University of Glasgow)
A Symposium, February 7-8, 2014
Day 1, Friday, February 7, 2014
Venue: Max Kade Institute, USC
9:30-11:30 Session 1: Intellectuals, Writers, Artists
Chair: Marje Schuetze-Coburn, USC Libraries
Ehrhard (Ted) Bahr, (UCLA): Weimar on the Pacific Revisited
Thomas Wheatland (Assumption College): Critical Theory. The Los Angeles Years
Michaela Ullmann (USC): A Lasting Legacy: Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger’s Impact on Preserving the Memory of German-Speaking Exiles in Southern California
12:00–13:30 Session 2: Lunchtime Panel on Exhibiting the Émigrés
Chair: Bill Deverell, USC
Karen Wilson (UCLA/Autry): Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic
Doris Berger (Skirball Cultural Center): Light & Noir: Exiles and Émigrés in Hollywood 1933-1950
14:00-16:00 Session 3: Immigrant Entrepreneurs in California
Chair: Jeffrey Fear
Hartmut Berghoff (GHI): The German-American Immigrant Entrepreneur Project
Uwe Spiekermann (GHI): The Spreckels Family in Southern California
Kathleen Feeley (University of Redlands): American, then German: Irving Thalberg and the Second Generation in Hollywood
Cornelius Schnauber (USC): Speak German You Are In Hollywood: Episodes and Experiences with German-Speaking Exiles and Émigrés.
Venue: Villa Aurora, Pacific Palisades
10:00-12:30 Session 4: Exile, Science and the State
Chair: Jonathan Steinberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Judith Goodstein (CalTech): Caltech’s German Connection
Anne Schenderlein (UCSD): Making German History in Los Angeles: German-Jewish Refugees and the West German Foreign Office
Giles Hoyt (University of Indiana): Max Kade: Pertussin and Philanthropy
14:00-16:00 Session 5: Film Worlds
Chair: Steven Ross, USC
Nicole Neuman (Univ. of Minnesota): Home Sweet Heimat: Finding Germanness in LA’s Moviegoing Culture
Margrit Frölich (UCSD, DAAD Visiting Professor): Liberties and Constrictions: Émigré Producers in Hollywood Motion Pictures
Tom Kemper (USC): Sue Mengers and the Rise of the Hollywood Agents
16:30-18:30 Session 6: Weimar on the Pacific Revisited: Exiles between Two Worlds
Chair: Paul Lerner (USC)
Marion Kant (Cambridge University): “For the Time Being a Row of Palm Trees Is Nothing but a Nice Façade”
Cristina Stanca Mustea (Paris), No More Crossings: Carl Laemmle’s Last Visit to Germany
Joachim Schlör (Southampton): Werner Richard Heymann in Hollywood: A Case Study in German-Jewish Emigration after 1933 as a Transnational Experience
Screening of DAVID WANTS TO FLY
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
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Film and Q&A
Dir. David Sieveking, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, 2010, 96 min., German and English with English subtitles, digital.
On his search for enlightenment, young filmmaker David Sieveking follows his idol David Lynch on the path of transcendental meditation laid out by the spiritual guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. But in doing so, he comes a little too close to some of the sect’s well kept secrets. Sieveking manages to tell the story of his detective-like search for meaning in a way which is both light-hearted and deeply personal. On his adventure-packed odyssey from the Teufelsberg hill in Berlin to the Himalayas, via Hollywood, he connects spiritual experiences and bizarre observations with exciting and intelligent documentary research.
With this film the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles continues its collaboration with the Villa Aurora’s artist-in-residence program. Under the label “Villa @ Goethe”, artists residing at the Villa Aurora have the opportunity to showcase their projects (past, present, and future) with the friends, patrons and guests here at the Goethe-Institut.
Discussion with David Sieveking and reception following the screening.
Participant
David Sieveking was born in 1977 in Friedberg, Hesse. After finishing school and completing a year of civilian service, he worked as a television editor and made short films and documentaries. In 2000, he began working as a director’s assistant and small-part actor. That year, he also won the Hesse prize for young talent with his short film Nachdreh.
In 2003, he began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin, and one year later his piece Mr. Singh was broadcast on 3-Sat as part of the film anthology Asyl. In 2005, his short film Die Amerikanische Botschaft was awarded two prizes for young talent at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2007, his graduation film Senegallemand premiered at the Munich International Film Festival. In 2010, David Wants to Fly was shown in German cinemas with great success.
Screening of I FEEL DISCO
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (5750 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
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Film and Q&A
Dir. Axel Ranisch, Germany, 2013, 95 min., digital.
Starring Frithjof Gawenda, Heiko Pinkowski and Christina Große
Actually, Florian Herbst is happiest when his dad isn’t at home. Then he can dance around the house with his mum, wear crazy costumes and forget all his troubles. And Hanno Herbst doesn’t really know what to do with his son, who has two left hands, a much too big belly and is neither interested in sports nor girls. But it’s not that bad! There is still mum. With a tender dominance she keeps the family’s fragile harmony in check and protects her two men from each other-at least until one terrible morning, when the house of cards collapses and mum vanishes from their lives from one moment to the next. Father and son are left behind, overwhelmed, but gradually learn to cope and find common ground. This is the story of I feel like Disco. Sometimes humorous and absurd, sometimes sad, sometimes fabulous. Source: © Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin
With this screening, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles continues its collaboration with the Villa Aurora’s artist-in-residence program. Under the label “Villa @ Goethe”, artists residing at the Villa Aurora have the opportunity to showcase their projects (past, present, and future) with the friends, patrons and guests here at the Goethe-Institut.
Discussion with Axel Ranisch and reception following the screening.
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Axel Ranisch is a director, actor, producer and media educator. Born as the obese child of two professional athletes, he initially maintained a critical distance to the medium of film. This attitude did not change until 2002, when he – rather inadvertently – made his first short film. Axel has been making movies at record speed ever since, directing approximately 80 short films during the following seven years as well as working as an actor, writer, composer and editor on several more. His credits as director include "Rhythmus im Kopf", "Dicke Mädchen" and "Ich fühl mich Disco", for which he was awarded the MFG Star, the MFG Film Foundation’s prestigious prize for young directors. As an actor, Axel has appeared in „Ruhm“ (Isabel Kleefeld, director), "Wie man leben soll" (David Schalko, director) and "Sechs tote Studenten" (Rosa von Praunheim, director), among others.
Oscar®-Reception
Los Angeles
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The day before the Academy Awards®, German Films, the German Consulate General and Villa Aurora held their traditional reception for the German Oscar®-nominees at the Villa Aurora. This year’s nominees were Max Lang and Jan Lachauer in the category of Short Animated Film.
The long-awaited rain storms struck during Oscar week, and the sky was overcast, but it did not deter about 300 guests to attend the party, among them being Angelika Flatz of the Austrian Chancelery, Andreas Trauts (MFG Filmfoundation) and Manon Bursian (Arts Foundation Sachsen-Anhalt). Oscar®- winner Volker Engel (Independence Day), Haifaa al Mansour and Uschi Obermaier celebrated the nominees as well.
The representative of German Films Oliver Mahrdt, the Director of Villa Aurora Margit Kleinman, Head of the Board of Villa Aurora Markus Klimmer and its Executive Director Annette Rupp welcomed the guests and introduced the nominees.
The reception was supported by German Films, Villa Aurora, the German Consulate General in Los Angeles, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles, MFG Filmfoundation and the Arts Foundation of Sachsen-Anhalt.
The official sponsors were Sante Naturkosmetik, Air Berlin, Audi, Bosch, Engel & Völkers, VW, Volvic, Carpe Diem, Apolinaris and AMI.
Meet our Fellows
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Axel Ranisch is a director, actor, producer and media educator. Born in Berlin-Lichtenberg in 1983 as the obese child of two professional athletes, he initially maintained a critical distance to the medium of film. This attitude did not change until 2002, when he -rather inadvertently -made his first short film. Axel has been making movies at record speed ever since, directing approximately 80 short films during the following seven years as well as working as an actor, writer, composer and editor on several more. In 2011, Axel cofounded the production company "Sehr gute Filme" (Very good films).
Ranisch's films are heart-warming, brimming with music and humor, often without a script and based on improvisation. Axel was awarded the 2013 MFG Star, the MFG Film Foundation's prestigious prize for young directors, which includes a three-month stay at Villa Aurora.
On March 6, Axel will show a compilation of his shorts, feature films and music videos and talk about his filmmaking philosophy.
Writer Stefan Maelck was born in Wismar in 1963. After his military service in the East German Army, he studied English and German literature in Rostock. His thesis was based on texts by Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson. After completing his Ph.D. in American studies he was awarded a fellowship for Brown University in Rhode Island. In 1992/93 Maelck was a guest lecturer at Bradford University in England. Upon his return, he worked as an editor for Reclam Verlag for British and American literature as well as a free-lance author and host for MDR and NDR radio and press for pop culture and literature. Maelck's novels "Ost Highway - Ein Hank Meyer Roman" (2003), "Pop essen Mauer auf"(2006), "Tödliche Zugabe" (2007) were published by Rowohlt Verlag.On March 6, Stefan will talk about his third novel "Hymnen an die Stille" (Hymns to Silence) the title of a Van Morrison album from 1991 featuring private eye and radio dj Hank Meyer. The "road movie" takes place in Rostock, Heiligendamm. Los Angeles, San Francisco and back to his radio station in Halle.
Filmmaker David Sieveking was born in Friedberg in 1977. From 1997 to 1999 he worked as an assistant editor in several production houses in Frankfurt. He then studied directing at the Berlin Film and TV Academy (dffb) and worked as editor, assistant director and actor for film and TV. His graduation film "Senegallemand" premiered at the 2007 Munich International Film Festival. In 2010 his cinema debut "David Wants to Fly", opened at the Berlin Film Festival, toured to over 40 festivals and was internationally released in theaters. His documentary "Vergiss mein nicht" (Forget Me Not) was the winner of the Critics' Week at thHis documentary "Vergiss mein nicht" (Forget Me Not) was the winner of the Critics' Week at the 2012 Locarno film festival. His book of the same title that was published in January 2013 along with the film release in Germany and Switzerland.
David's statement for the March 6th event: Me, Myself and I: For about ten years I have been working on first-person documentaries. Based on clips from my films "David Wants to Fly" and "Forget Me Not" I would like to share some of my experiences in this field and talk about the possibilities, but also the limitations of working in this very personal way.
Watch the trailer of "David wants to fly".
Villa Aurora Salon featuring Felicitas Hoppe
Berlin
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Women In Exile
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Discovering a Fascinating Author - The Life and Work of Susan Taubes
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Sigrid Weigel, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., is Director of the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin. She published on Heine, Warburg, Freud, Benjamin, Scholem, Arendt, Bachmann, Susan Taubes, on cultural history, image theory, memory, secularization, genealogy, and the cultural history of sciences. Released recently: "Escape to Life". German Intellectuals in New York. A Compendium on Exile after 1933 (2012); Walter Benjamin. Images, the Creaturly, and the Holy (2013).
Human Rights in the Digital Sphere
Literaturhaus Berlin (Fasanenstraße 23, 10719 Berlin)
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On the occasion of the anniversary of the burning of books, Villa Aurora Forum and Literaturhaus Berlin invite you to:
Human Rights in the Digital Sphere
Is internet censorship the "book burning of the 21st century", as a staff member of the U.S. State Department claimed in a blog post last March?
Urged on by governments and corporations alike, access and content of the internet are subject to ever increasing control and curtailment. Attempts to control the internet and mechanisms to technically achieve this are becoming more sophisticated by the day.
In Vietnam, home of the 2014 Feuchtwanger Fellow, Pham Doan Trang, a specialized internet police unit eliminates unwanted content from the web and controls the internet cafes. Three bloggers were arrested recently, because they advocated online for more democracy.
The dream of a free internet is over. By now a fierce fight for unfettered access to knowledge and information is raging. What will remain of the internet as a sphere for free speech and democratic participation?
Lutz Hachmeister, Head of the Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationspolitik (Berlin) will discuss the topic with experts from the analog and digital world.
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MicroFest @ Villla Aurora
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Villa @ Goethe presents: DAS SYSTEM
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles (5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036)
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Dir. Marc Bauder, Screeplay: Dörte Franke & Khyana elBitar, Germany, 2011, 85 min. German with English subtitles, digital. Starring Jacob Matschenz, Bernhard Schütz, Jenny Schily, Heinz Hoenig, Franziska Wulf
Twenty-year-old Mike, an attractive and intelligent dropout, becomes involved in a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret service agents who work together for economic advantage. His initial mistrust turns into curiosity and then admiration when he realizes that his own life is more closely connected with this network than he had previously believed.
The System premiered at the 2011 Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival. It won the Cine Star award 2011 at the film festival in Schwerin, the DEFA advancement award at the film festival in Cottbus and was nominated for the German Filmprize (Best Actor).
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With this screening, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles continues its collaboration with the Villa Aurora’s artist-in-residence program.
Under the label “Villa @ Goethe,” artists residing at the Villa Aurora have the opportunity to showcase their projects (past, present, and future) with the friends, patrons and guests here at the Goethe-Institut.
Discussion with filmmakers Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke, and reception following the screening.
Marc Bauder and Dörte Franke are both founders and owners of the production company bauderfilm.
Meet our Fellows @ Villa Aurora
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Eldur Á Himni - Fire In The Sky
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Only for a few months during the darkness of winter, the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are visible during cloudless nights. Camping out in the remoteness of Northern Iceland night after night, Boris captured the fascinating spectacle in the sky and documented the magical dance of the Northern Lights in stunning photographs as well as in a mesmerizing video installation. Tim Marshall, one of the curators of The Weight of Mountains, will be present.
To see the Aurora Borealis was always on my bucket list. A little disappointed at first, I realized that most pictures we see of the Aurora Borealis are deceiving and that its true beauty is revealed only in long time exposure. After my first captures, I was drawn to it and the results of my sleepless nights can be seen in my film and photographic work ELDUR Á HIMNI. - Boris Schaarschmidt
Boris Schaarschmidt is an award-winning filmmaker and alumnus of the American Film Institute's prestigious directing program. He also holds a BA in Design & Cinematography from the University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund, Germany. His films screened at countless festivals around the world, among them Raindance (London, UK), Hampton's Intl Filmfestival (NY), Max-Ophüls Preis Festival (Saarbrücken, GER), and Berlinale (Berlin, GER). Although Boris has been an avid photographer for most of his adult life, ELDUR Á HIMNI is his first public exhibit of his photographic work.
For more information about his work visit his website: www.borisschaarschmidt.com
Every 2 years, The Weight of Mountains takes filmmakers and film artists into new territory; working from a different remote or challenging environment in the world each time to present new unique challenges for artists that push their boundaries and enable new adapted skill sets to emerge.
In 2015, they are heading to the edge of the Sahara desert in Morocco from September 18 - November 13. Their residency host will be Café Tissardmine
For more information about TWOM visit: www.twom.is
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Inhabit the Word
Los Angeles
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80 Years PEN Center of German-Speaking Writers Abroad
Saturday, June 28, 2:00 to 6:00 p.m.
80 years ago, the exiled writers Lion Feuchtwanger, Ernst Toller, Rudolf Olden and Max Herrmann-Neiße founded the German PEN Club in Exile in protest against the events in Germany. Many of the most important authors became members as well, representing the persecuted literature of the „other Germany“.
After WWII the „Exil-PEN“ changed its name into PEN Center for German-Speaking writers abroad“ . They are united in their support for persecuted writers worldwide.
This conference brings together writers from Germany, the U.S., Switzerland, and Ireland
Concept: Gabrielle Alioth
Keynote address by Guy Stern
Readings and lectures by Gabrielle Alioth, Bernadette Conrad, Utz Rachowski, Renate Ahrens, Michael Eskin, Claudia Becker and Gino Leineweber
Panel discussion with Geertje Suhr Potash and Gerda Nischan“
Members of the PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad read from their work
(20’ each) introduced by Gabrielle Alioth
2:00 p.m.
Bernadette Conrad: The Many Lives of Paula Fox
Renate Ahrens: Ernst Toller – Eine Beunruhigung(in German)
Gino Leineweber: Reading from his works
Egon Schwarz: Warum ich keinen Roman geschrieben habe, read by Irene Lindgren (in German
Michael Eskin: Poetry reading
4:15 p.m.
Gabrielle Alioth: Emigrating from Switzerland, a personal view
Utz Rachwoski: Reading from his work
Gerda Nischan: Reading from Letters to a Prisoner of War and other works
Claudia Becker: Reading from her works
Geertje Suhr Potash: Brief an den Geheimrat Goethe, and some Poems, Reading
Progams at the Max Kade Institute
Thursday, June 26 @ 7:00 p.m.
"AMERICAN TRACES IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN GERMAN"
Michael Eskin: American Traces in Contemporary Literature in German
Gabrielle Alioth: American Traces in Contemporary Swiss Literature
Renate Ahrens: A Mixture of Language: German-English Children’s Books
Bernadette Conrad: The Perception of American Writers in Germany
Monday, June 30 @ 7:00 p.m.
"EMIGRATION AND EMIGRANTS"
Gabrielle Alioth: Introduction and Reading from: Emigrated – Swiss Emigrants through 7 Centuries
Gino Leineweber: Explorers, Settlers – Francisco Pizarro and others
Renate Ahrens: Presentation and Reading from: Stefan Zweig – On the Threshold
(All contributions are in English unless otherwise stated)
Los Angeles CA 90007
Stalin's Apologist
Literaturhaus Berlin (Fasanenstr. 23, 10719 Berlin-Charlottenburg)
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Lion Feuchtwanger in Moscow in 1937
To understand Stalin – was that at all possible for a western intellectual, who paid him a visit in the Soviet Union in the 1930s? What was it that Feuchtwanger grasped, when he sat face to face with the dictator on January 8th, 1937? How far reaching was his insight and knowledge about that radically foreign society?
In his travel log of 1937, Feuchtwanger shows considerable appreciation for Stalin and his policies. He ends his book with a triple, enthusiastic YES for the USSR praising its social order and even justifying its show trials. The political reasons are obvious. Forced into exile, by the Hitler regime, the German-Jewish author hoped, the Soviet Union would offer the fierce resistance to the National Socialists, which was sadly missing among the western democracies.
But other motives may be worth mentioning. There are irritations, contradictions and cracks detectable under the smooth surface of his travel log. Those will be the focus of the lecture which will also discuss the limits of understanding and sympathy. It includes the questions, why Feuchtwanger stuck staunchly to his vision of the soviet realities until his death in 1958.
Dr. Anne Hartmann is a research associate at the Seminar for Slavic studies/Lotman-Institut at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
A co-operation of Villa Aurora and Literaturhaus Berlin in celebration of Feuchtwanger’s 130th birthday.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, July 12 @ 8:30 p.m.
DEAN MORA on Organ
Program (curated by Suzanne Lloyd):
HAROLD LLOYD in
His Royal Slyness (1920, 21:39 min.)
Ask Father (1919, 13:00 min.)
An Eastern Westerner (1920, 23:42)
Never Weaken (1921, 29:10 min.)
Comedian Harold Lloyd was born in Burchard, Nebraska, on April 20, 1893. He became an icon of the silent film era by starring in Just Nuts, Girl Shy and The Freshman, among other notable films. Lloyd's popularity continued after the coming of sound, with movies including Mad Wednesday. He died on March 8, 1971, in Beverly Hills, California.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, July 26 @ 8:30 p.m.
MICHAEL MORTILLA on Organ
Program (curated by Michael Mortilla):
The Happy Go Luckies (1923, Paul Terry Animation, 7 min.)
Won in a Cupboard (1914, Mabel Normand directing and starring, 13. min)
The Love Charm (early two color technicolor, 10 min.)
Legal Advice (Tom Mix, 1916, 13 min.)
Andy's Stump Speech (live action comedy based on the newspaper cartoon character Andy Gump, 1916,22 min.)
Michael Mortilla is a composer, conductor, arranger, music director, and accompanist. In his native Manhattan, he worked with and composed for dance legend Martha Graham. For 14 years Mortilla taught music, production, and theater & dance accompaniment at the Deparment of Theater & Dance at UC Santa Barbara.
Michael has received numerous commissions including from The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Olympic Games Art Festival. Mortilla’s scores have been performed throughout the U.S. from the White House to the AMPAS and from Lincoln Center to the first ever broadcast of a feature over the internet (Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink”). He plays internationally on TV and in theaters.
Welcoming Reception
VILLA AURORA (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
Participants
Antonio Paucar was born in 1973 in Huancayo, Peru. He lives and works in Berlin and Peru. He studied philosophy at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin and fine arts at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee, at Chelsea College of Art and Design and at the University of the Arts in Berlin (with Prof. Lothar Baumgarten and Rebecca Horn).
Since 2006 Antonio Paucar has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Peru, Japan und Mexico. He worked as a performance artist with Rebecca Horn and others. In 2011 Antonio Paucar won the Zeitsicht-Kunstpreis and in 2013 the arts award of the Arts Foundation of the City of Bonn/Germany.
On July 31, he will show his video-performances:
Guardián del maizal, 2013 HDV, 04:31 min.
Suspendido en la Queñua, (short version) 2014, HDV, 05:58 min.
Purzelbaum in Ives Klein Blau, 2011, HDV 2 min.
Altar, 2006, video 2:40 min.
For more information about his work visit his website: www.antoniopaucar.com
Nora Matocza-Falkner studied painting and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and art history and theater studies in Erlangen. Her work was shown in Munich, Nuremberg, Berlin, Amberg and New York, just to name a few. Furthermore she participated in group exhibitions in Cologne, Ratisbon, Würzburg Barcelona, Sofia and Klatovy.
On July 31 Nora Matocza-Falkner will introduce a collaborative project (with Gerhard Falkner) on an artists book, by the working title of "Primstadt LA" (from math. Prime / indivisible number), inspired by American Modernists from Robert Motherwell to Larry Rivers and others. Nora Matocza will also show and comment on some examples from one of their mutual works, "materien", published in 1990. (Photo by Peter Raßkopf)
Gerhard Falkner ranks among the most important poets of today. He is the recipient of numerous awards and received fellowships from renown international residences, such as Villa Massimo (Casa Baldi) Rome, Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Spycher Preis Schloss Leuk Swizzerland and Kulturakademie Tarabya Istanbul.
On July 31 Gerhard Falkner will show "Pergamon Poems", five short poetry clips, commissioned by the renown Pergamon Museum in Berlin, followed by the short documentary "Ende der Republik" on the demolition of the "Palast der Republik", the former seat of the parliament of the GDR. A collaboration with the American video artist Reynold Reynolds. (Photo by A.P. Englert)
Jan Brandt, was born in Leer (Eastern Frisia) in 1974. He studied history and literature in Cologne, London and Berlin and graduated from the German Journalism School in Munich. His short stories have been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He was awarded numerous fellowships and residences such as to Ledig House and Yaddo in New York.
Brandt's first novel "Against The World" was a finalist for the 2011 German Book Award and won the Nicolas-Born-First-Novel-Award. The novel is going to be published in English by Seagull Books in 2015. His second novel deals with Germans who emigrated to America.
Jan Brandt will read a beefy and porky chapter from his upcoming American novel about German immigrants.
Sergej Newski was born in Moscow in 1972. After completing studies
at the State Tchaikovsky Conservatoire, specializing in music theory, he studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden and the Universität der Künste in Berlin, where he graduated in music theory and pedagogy. Since 1994 his music has been performed at leading international New Music festivals, including the Donaueschingen Festival, Wien Modern, Éclat, Gaudeamus Music Week, Berliner Festwochen and the ISCM World New Music Days. Klangforum Wien, SWR, Deutschlandradio, Berlin Konzerthaus, Deutsche Staatsoper Unter den Linden and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture commissioned work for him.
Sergej Newski will show a fragment of his opera "Franziskus", which debuted in 2012 at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
Listen to Sergej Newski's music on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/sergej-newski
Raskin & Fleischmann
VILLA AURORA (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Johannes Fleischmann and Philippe Raskin met in August 2009 during the Pablo Casals Festival in Prades, France. In 2010, Fleischmann and Raskin created the Raskin & Fleischmann Two4music.com Duo. Since then the duo has performed in Europe, Africa and South America. Their concert at Villa Aurora is one stop on their tour to Bogotá, Medellin, Mexico City and Oaxaca.
Participants
Born in Brussels in 1982, Philippe Raskin devoted himself to music at a very early age. He started piano lessons with Aleksandr Friedland, a Russian conductor, and continued working with Bernadette Malter and Loredana Clini.
At age 16 he graduated from the Royal Conservatorium of Brussels followed by the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with the highest distinction and holds a Masters from Brussels Conservatorium.
In 2005 he entered the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofia in Madrid where he received the Sobresaliente Prize from H.M the Queen of Spain.
He has a “Diplôme de Spécialisation” from the Strasbourg Conservatory where he studied with Amy Lin.
Philippe has won several national and international competitions, amongst others: the J.S. Bach Competition, the Gretry Rotary Competition, the Paris International Piano Competition, just to name a few.
In 2012 he was a prize-winner at the Lyon International Piano Competition and won First Prize at the “Spanish Composers” International Piano Competition in Madrid.
Philippe has performed internationally as a soloist and with noted orchestras.
His focus on contemporary music earned him dedications from several composers including „Stringent” & Jean-Marie Rens, and Serkan Gürkan.
Born in Vienna in 1983, the violinist Johannes Fleischmann started piano lessons at the age of 5. After graduating at the Viennese „Musikgymnasium“ he founded the „o(h)!-on Ensemble, Wien“ in 2003, and began his studies at the University of Music and the Performing Arts Vienna, in the classes of Prof. Klaus Maetzl and Prof. Christian Altenburger, graduating with the highest distinction.
Johannes Fleischmann currently performs on a violin from Johann Georg Stauffer, dated 1826.
In May 2009, Johannes Fleischmann made his solo debut performing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Austrian-Slovakian Philharmonic Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Johannes has worked with many well-known artists such as Christian Altenburger, Reinhard Latzko, and Rainer Küchl. He has performed at international festivals and can be seen in concert halls from Wiener Musikverein to Carnegie Hall. Fleischmann performs as a soloist and with renown chamber and philharmonic orchestras.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, August 9 @ 8:00 p.m.
MICHAEL MORTILLA on Organ
Program (curated by Jeffrey Massino of Flicker Alley):
CHARLIE CHAPLIN in
The Adventurer (1917, 23:52 min.)
Easy Street (1917, 24:42 min.)
The Rink (1916, 23:37 min.)
Michael Mortilla is a composer, conductor, arranger, music director, and accompanist. In his native Manhattan, he worked with and composed for dance legend Martha Graham. For 14 years Mortilla taught music, production, and theater & dance accompaniment at the Deparment of Theater & Dance at UC Santa Barbara.
Michael has received numerous commissions including from The Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Olympic Games Art Festival. Mortilla’s scores have been performed throughout the U.S. from the White House to the AMPAS and from Lincoln Center to the first ever broadcast of a feature over the internet (Charlie Chaplin’s “The Rink”). He plays internationally on TV and in theaters.
Silent Salon
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Saturday, August 23 @ 8:00 p.m.
CHRISTOPH BULL on Organ
Program (curated by Christoph Bull):
Buster Keaton in Cops (1922, 18 min.)
Koko’s Earth Control (Max Fleischer,1928, 6 min.)
A Trip To The Moon (Georges Méliès,1902, 15 min.)
Charlie Chaplin in Kid Auto Races At Venice (1914, 6 min.)
Charlie Chaplin in The Immigrant (1917, 24 min.)
One of the world’s most unique organ artists, equally versed in classical and popular music, Christoph Bull has performed in Europe, the United States, El Salvador, Russia and India, at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Lincoln Center in New York, the Catholic Cathedrals of Moscow, Salzburg and Saint-Denis, as well as rock clubs such as The Viper Room, The Roxy and The Whisky in Los Angeles.
He has won first and second prizes in numerous organ and songwriting competitions, including Jugend Musiziert, Chamber Music Competition of the City of Bad Dürkheim, Michael Masser Songwriting Competition, Berklee Songwriting Competition, International Organ Competition Marcello Galanti.
Re-Construction
VILLA AURORA (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Veronika Kellndorfer utilizes photographs of architecture taken in Los Angeles, Rome, Paris and most recently São Paulo, choosing sections, details, and perspectives to print as silkscreens on glass. Her works are substitutes for reality, recurring in public spaces and museums, linking and overlapping different spaces and times, a hunt for traces. Her publication, case studies, layers of light and reflection, alludes to eminent architectural books from the 1960s and 70s, while, at the same time, showing how the artist uses various techniques to bring to light the disturbing potential and aesthetic externals of these architectural icons. Kellndorfer’s process presents retro-utopianism as a projection machine, figuring memory as future.
Merry Norris, Hon.AIA/LA, is a longtime art collector, art consultant and art curator. She was instrumental in founding and funding the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (1979-1984) and years later, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, where she served on the Board of Directors from 2002-2013. Norris has served on many important Boards of Directors in the city of Los Angeles, and for 27 years has continued to be a very involved Trustee at SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her Public Art compositions have received high acclaim, and she delights in maintaining a strong curatorial relationship with “her hotel,” the ANDAZ West Hollywood (Hyatt) on the Sunset Strip. Maintaining her beautiful house in the Bird Streets of Los Angeles occupies endless devotion and time, although the pine needles remain an annoying component.
Mark Lee is an architect and co-founder of one of California’s most internationally regarded architectural offices. Recently, JohnstonMarklee won the competition for the Drawing Center of the Menil Collection and received the Next LA Honor Award for its Chile House. With deep knowledge of both architectural history and contemporary discourse and construction practices, Mark directs design teams through critical research while striving for efficiency and precision in production. He has written and lectured widely on his research regarding culture specific landscapes and new strategies in material form and technology. He teaches at Harvard University, and has taught at UCLA, Rice University in Houston, the ETH in Zurich, and the Technical University of Berlin.
Sommerfest
Los Angeles
The SOMMERFEST is cancelled.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to cancel this Saturday's Sommerfest.
Ticket holders will find their charges refunded to their credit cards automatically.
We apologize for the inconvenience and are looking forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events.
Poet Gerhard Falkner on Franz Kafka
VILLA AURORA (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
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Villa Aurora fellow GERHARD FALKNER will discuss the life and work of FRANZ KAFKA, regarded by many as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. The program will include film clips, performance and readings in both English and German.
This event is part of the MUTUAL INSPIRATIONS FESTIVAL, an annual initiative spearheaded by the Embassy of the Czech Republic, focusing on the mutual inspirations between Czech and American cultures and -each year- featuring an extraordinary Czech personality who has greatly influenced and inspired others through his or her work.
Gerhard Falkner ranks among the most important poets of today. He is the recipient of numerous awards and received fellowships of renown international recidences, such as Villa Massimo (Casa Baldi) Rome, Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Spycher Preis Schloss Leuk Swiss, Kulturakademie Tarabya Istanbul and upcoming, Villa Aurora California. His latest book, the „Pergamon Poems“, was a work for the Pergamon Museum in Berlin and was turned into five video-clips, in cooperation with actors from the Berlin Schaubühne.
Jan Brandt
1818 North Vermont Ave (L.A., 90027)
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A village on the furthest outskirts of northwest Lower Saxony, only a few kilometres from the Dutch border: Cows are grazing on the meadows, farmers are tilling their fields, every once in a while the din of a low-lying aircraft disturbs the tranquility. Flowers are blossoming behind the trimmed cedar hedges, shiny, freshly waxed new cars stand in the driveways.
This is the world into which Daniel Kuper was born in the mid 1970s, a lanky, withdrawn boy with much too much imagination and much too little opportunity to live out only a fraction of it. Strange things soon start taking place and Kuper is held responsible. The more he tries to rebut the accusations, the deeper he gets enmeshed in them. Kuper takes up the fight against the village, its inhabitants, its traditions, its narrowness and its closeness.
Jan Brandt, born in Leer (Eastern Frisia) in 1974, studied history and literature in Cologne, London and Berlin and graduated from the German Journalism School in Munich. Amongst others his short stories have been published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He was awarded numerous fellowships and residences such as to Ledig House and Yaddo in New York. Brandt’s first novel Against The World was a finalist for the 2011 German Book Award and won the Nicolas-Born-First-Novel-Award. It’s going to be published in English by Seagull Books in 2015. At Villa Aurora Jan Brandt is working on a novel about Germans who emigrated into the U.S.
POETRY. ENTRANCES AND EXITS
Doheny Memorial Library Room 241 @ USC
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The event will feature readings and several short poetry video clips by Gerhard Falkner.
Reception with refreshments to follow.
POETRY. ENTRANCES AND EXITS II
Calstate Longbeach (German Department, Room AS 122)
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Internationally acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist, and translator Gerhard Falkner describes himself as a flâneur or pilgrim. He has been the recipient of numerous awards and has received fellowships from renowned international residences, such as Villa Massimo (Casa Baldi) Rome, Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Spycher Preis Schloss, Leuk Switzerland, and Kulturakademie Tarabya, Istanbul.
Cities, nature and contrasts are among the main sources of Falkner’s inspiration. He defines himself as a poet between modernity and post-modernity, a poet interpreting the world around him.
The event will feature readings and several short poetry video clips by Gerhard Falkner.
Films will be presented in German with English subtitles. Poetry will be presented in German; discussions and workshop will take place in English.
Reception to follow.
VAMPIRES
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Leibniz Saal Akademiegebäude Gendarmenmarkt, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin)
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The Vampire is, without any doubt, part of the pool of psychological projections, but what is the link to libraries, cabinets of wonders, vegetarianism and Vienna? All of these questions and many more will be pursued during this transatlantic night of vampires. Our guests are Prof. Dr. Laurence Rickels, publisher of "Vampire Lectures", and Prof. Dr. Eric Steinhauer, author of "Vampyrologie für Bibliothekare". Irm Hermann and others will read from the - so far - unpublished screenplay "Die Blutgräfin" by Ulrike Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, and Laurence Rickels’ short "Spout" will proof one more time: "once you go with a vampire there is no going back!"
This event is not recommended for children under 12 years of age.
PROGRAM
Welcoming Reception
Villa Aurora (520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272)
Participants
Kerstin Cmelka will present her ongoing work „Microdramas“. “Microdramas” are dramatic fragments, a series of live performances, performance videos, photos and artist’s books, in which Cmelka creates a process of negotiation and collaboration, to which she invites artist friends acting as amateur performers as well as professional actors, musicians and friends from the cultural scene.
Katrin Mayer's works deal with the intersection of art, research, architecture, display and decor. She interweaves visual textures and surfaces with site specific spatial and historical contexts, often related to gender policy issues.
At Villla Aurora she will present her latest works for Kunsthalle Bielefeld and Ludlow38, New York.
In her work for Kunsthalle Bielefeld Mayer focuses on Philip Johnson's (architect of Kunsthalle Bielefeld) collaboration with the Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers, who ended up teaching at Black Mountain College.
The pieces created for Ludlow38 explore the Lower East Side garment district between 1900-1915, an era when significant changes in the political role of working women took place.
For more information about her work visit her website:
www.katrinmayer.net
“I am particularly interested in the relationship established between the line, or yarn with the body, as a unit of measurement, which is defined in relation to the scale of the human body and the spatial environment around it. The idea of a string tied around the fingers serving as a mnemonic device. As well as the relationship of the body with built space using an element that develops within it being manipulated and deployed. This device can be seen as a rope, which through its successive knots and displacement defines surfaces which in turn define volume.”
Marina Khorkova
Monk Space (4414 West 2nd St. Los Angeles, 90004)
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Tuesdays @ Monk Space presents:
Marina Khorkova and Lyris Quartet
Showcasing the very best performers and artists anywhere, Tuesdays@MONK SPACE presents cutting-edge music, and adventurous interdisciplinary arts programming in an interactive and inspiring environment.
As part Monk Space’s “Europeen Currents”, Villa Aurora composer-in-residence Marina Khorkova presents an evening of her own music alongside the works of two of Europe’s most influential composers, Helmut Lachenmann and Carola Bauckholt. With the Lyris Quartet, Gnarwhallaby, Pam Vliek, and Elissa Johnston.
Program
Talk & Introduction by Marina Khorkova
temA - Lachenmann
Hirn & Eli - Bauckholt
String Quartet - Khorkova
a_priori – Khorkova
Marina Khorkova & Lyris Quartet
Monk Space (4414 West 2nd St., Los Angeles, 90004)
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Tuesdays@Monk Space presents:
Marina Khorkova and Lyris Quartet
Showcasing the very best performers and artists anywhere, Tuesdays@MONK SPACE presents cutting-edge music, and adventurous interdisciplinary arts programming in an interactive and inspiring environment.
As part of Monk Space’s “Europeen Currents”, Villa Aurora's composer-in-residence Marina Khorkova presents an evening of her own music alongside the works of two of Europe’s most influential composers, Helmut Lachenmann and Carola Bauckholt. With the Lyris Quartet, Gnarwhallaby, Pam Vliek, and Elissa Johnston.
Program
Talk & Introduction by Marina Khorkova
temA - Lachenmann
Hirn & Ei- Bauckholt
String Quartet - Khorkova
a_priori – Khorkova